Landscape category: 1155 books
by Philip Giroux, National Gardening Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Create the yard you've always yearned for A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it dramatically increases your home's value. Landscaping Basics For Dummies gets you started on turning the little patch of earth you call...
Shades of Green
My Life as the National Trust's Head of Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book incorporates lessons learned over a quarter of a century of managing, renewing and caring for the gardens of the National Trust; negotiating change with a variety of colourful characters, including former owners, now tenants. It traces the very British way the Trust learned about conserving...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s...
by Valerie Strong
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Through colorful, personal vignettes, landscape designer Valerie Strong presents and solves specific landscape problems, including the excavations of her own ponds and the creation of three award-winning gardens. She comments on her natural surroundings, even empty lots and roadsides. Strong examines...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century growth pattern in developed countries and in the twenty-first century has shown widespread signs of proliferation in India, China, and other...
Designing the Sustainable Site
Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable residential landscapes and small-scale sites
"Going green" is no longer a choice; it's a necessity. Developed landscapes have played a significant role in exacerbating the environmental and social problems that threaten humanity; however,...
The Sustainable Sites Handbook
A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes....
Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning
Integrating Human and Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. Austin takes a broad look at green infrastructure concepts, research and case studies to provide the student and professional with processes, criteria and data to support...
The Emerging Asian City
Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing...
Cultural Landscapes of South Asia
Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement Award
The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people’s engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people’s needs and desires in the twenty-first...
Outside the Not So Big House
Creating the Landscape of Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesn't yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In...
Flowscapes
Designing infrastructure as landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of...
Making the Metropolitan Landscape
Standing Firm on Middle Ground
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the fields of architecture, design and planning to consider...