Landscape category: 1155 books
by Simon Bell
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations. The book is a comprehensive manual for planners, designers and managers of recreation taking them through the processes of design and enabling them to find...
Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation
Suiseki and its Use with Bonsai
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation is an exploration into the art of suiseki—small, naturally formed stones selected for their shape, balance, simplicity and tranquility.
Written by two leading experts in the field of Japanese gardening and art, this concise introduction offers aesthetic...
Urban Microclimate
Designing the Spaces Between Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable...
by Clare Cardinal-Pett
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines...
Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design
Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?
Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be...
by Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Outlandia is an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis. It is performative architecture that immerses its occupants in a particular...
by Graham Towers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Building Democracy is a major contribution to the growing public debate about the revival of community values in the face of the self-evident short-comings of the free market, specifically in terms of community architecture. Providing a historical context and an authoritative account of a movement...
Reinventing an Urban Vernacular
Developing Sustainable Housing Prototypes for Cities Based on Traditional Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multifamily buildings in urban areas. Reinventing an Urban Vernacular addresses these new demands for smaller and more efficient housing units adapted to local...
The New Australian Garden
Landscapes for living
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The New Australian Garden is an insider's account of the journey to design, construct and plant 18 landmark gardens that represent a new movement in Australian landscape design - one where the relationship between architecture and garden is paramount. Landscaper Michael Bates, working alone and in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How the Civilian Conservation Corps transformed our understanding of nature
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions...
Planning in the Face of Crisis
Land Use, Housing, and Mass Immigration in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage incremental change. Can a planner's skills and expertise be effective in handling a major crisis and large-scale change? The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to...
by Arthur Nelson, Robert Lang
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape, social,...
Tokyo Roji
The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people’s personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the...
Remaking Birmingham
The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial...