Landscape category: 1155 books
Dynamic Patterns
Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Dynamic Patterns explores the role of patterns in designed landscapes. Patterns are inherently relational, and the search for and the creation of patterns are endemic to many scientific and artistic endeavors. Recent advances in optical tools, sensors, and computing have expanded our understanding...
Global Green Infrastructure
Lessons for successful policy-making, investment and management
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Over the last decade research exploring green infrastructure planning has burgeoned. Transferable green infrastructure messages between locations though are less well established and there remains a visible gap between the conceptual understanding of green infrastructure and its application in practice....
Covert Capital
Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert...
Landscaping with Fruit
Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Discover the joy of homegrown apples, fresh-picked cherries, and dozens of other fruits with this definitive guide to creating a more delicious backyard! Lee Reich shows you how to grow temperate-zone fruit at home, from site analysis and climate assessment through plant selection, pest control, pruning,...
Hertfordshire
A Landscape History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the “champion” countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural...
by CHARLES M RITTER
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Design Your Own Garden And Learn How To Plant A Garden, Plus How To Grow Flowers Using Landscape Garden Ideas For Flowers And Gardening
Do you admire other people’s gardens but think that you could never have one? Many people love to look at their neighbor's lovely gardens in the spring and...
The Environmental Stewardship Toolkit
How to Build, Implement and Maintain an Environmental Plan for Grounds and Golf Courses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
A comprehensive, one-stop guide to environmental stewardship for golf courses and grounds
This highly practical guide covers the full complement of tools green industry professionals need to create a successful environmental program on golf courses and grounds. Written by a leading golf course...
How to Mulch
Save Water, Feed the Soil, and Suppress Weeds. A Storey BASICS®Title
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Mulch your way to a vibrant and healthy home landscape. Profiling a variety of techniques that include sheet mulches, feeding mulches, and living mulches, Stu Campbell and Jennifer Kujawski help you choose the best mulching strategy for your backyard, vegetable garden, or flower bed. You’ll be amazed...
by Mike Biddulph
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.
Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework...
by Susan Herrington
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between...
by William Warren
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This Thai gardening book presents the finest luxury gardens of Thailand and is of enormous importance to the field of tropical gardening.
Containing over 250 photographs by world-renowned Italian photographer Luca Invernizzi Tettoni and authoritative text by gardening expert William Warren,...
by David Engel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
With extensive photographs and diagrams, this book explains the philosophy and practice of Japanese gardening.
An important classic of gardening instruction, Japanese Gardens for Today is a practical down-to-earth explanation of the basic rules of Japanese garden design and care. It is sure...
The Working Man's Green Space
Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers...