| City bountiful: A century of community gardening in America LJ Lawson Univ of California Press, 2005 | 952 | 2005 |
| Greening cities, growing communities J Hou, JM Johnson, L Lawson Seattle: Landscape Architecture Foundation in association with University of …, 2009 | 251 | 2009 |
| The planner in the garden: A historical view into the relationship between planning and community gardens L Lawson Journal of Planning History 3 (2), 151-176, 2004 | 185 | 2004 |
| Results of a US and Canada community garden survey: shared challenges in garden management amid diverse geographical and organizational contexts L Drake, LJ Lawson Agriculture and Human Values 32, 241-254, 2015 | 159 | 2015 |
| Validating verdancy or vacancy? The relationship of community gardens and vacant lands in the US L Drake, LJ Lawson Cities 40, 133-142, 2014 | 146 | 2014 |
| Design as democracy: Techniques for collective creativity D Peña, DJ Allen, RT Hester Jr, J Hou, LL Lawson Island Press: Washington, DC. doi 10, 978-1, 2017 | 74 | 2017 |
| Cultural geographies in practice: The South Central Farm: Dilemmas in practicing the public L Lawson Cultural Geographies 14 (4), 611-616, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| Community gardening organization survey LJ Lawson, L Drake Community Greening Review 18, 20-41, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Putting teens at the center: Maximizing public utility of urban space through youth involvement in planning and employment L Lawson, M McNally Children's Environments, 209-221, 1995 | 46 | 1995 |
| Dialogue through design: The East St. Louis neighborhood design workshop and South End neighborhood plan L Lawson Landscape Journal 24 (2), 157-171, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |
| Sowing the City L Lawson Nature, 522-524, 2016 | 36* | 2016 |
| The impact of a service-learning design course on white students' racial attitudes S Houshmand, LB Spanierman, AM Beer, VP Poteat, L Lawson Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 18 (2), 19-48, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Community gardens and urban agriculture as antithesis to abandonment: Exploring a citizenship-land model L Lawson, A Miller University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Evolution in partnership: Lessons from the East St Louis action research project J Sorensen, L Lawson Action Research 10 (2), 150-169, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| Best practices in community garden management to address participation, water access, and outreach L Drake, L Lawson The Journal of Extension 53 (6), 7, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| Parks as mirrors of community: design discourse and community hopes for parks in East St. Louis L Lawson Landscape Journal 26 (1), 116-133, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| People in a Landscape G Eckbo, C Sullivan, W Hood, L Lawson Prentice Hall, 1998 | 20 | 1998 |
| Garden for victory! The American victory garden campaign of World War II LJ Lawson Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, resilience and community greening, 181-195, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| A brief history of urban garden programs in the United States L Lawson Department of landscape architecture, Rutgers, The State University of New …, 2009 | 16 | 2009 |
| The evolution of planning in East St. Louis M Edwards, L Lawson Journal of Planning History 4 (4), 356-382, 2005 | 16 | 2005 |
