Landscape category: 1155 books
Kyoto Gardens
Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener's Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens."
—HGTV Gardens
Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy....
Critical Landscapes
Art, Space, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and...
MetroGreen
Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movemseeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them in green...
Using Plants for Stormwater Management
A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The subtropical climate of the Gulf South supports a varied abundance of flora, and this diversity is sustained by the ample amount of rainwater that characterizes the region. Managing rainwater in a planned environment and mitigating its effect on human habitation can test the skills of even the...
Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping
The Essential Green Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
What if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis's colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers how to do just that for the large and beautiful Chesapeake Bay watershed region. This area includes...
by Sally Hultstrand
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Not-So-English Garden is the story of the author's unexpected move to the Midwest and how she developed gardens that are compatible with the local landscape and climate. With the accumulated wisdom of more than fifty years of gardening in seven different states, she gives the kind of advice...
Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest
A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and conditions, however, is not always easy: each species has its own requirements for sunlight, water,...
Beauty by Design
Inspired Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven inspired artists of the garden share their stories, their secrets, and their passion for gardening....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...
Twentieth-Century Suburbs
A Morphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.
This book describes the ways...
Urbanism and Transport
Building Blocks for Architects and City and Transport Planners
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Helmut Holzapfel’s Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities. Urbanism and Transport shows how the automobile has come to dominate the urban landscape of cities throughout...
The City in Geography
Renaturing the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and around which they are constructed, however, has come to be viewed merely in terms of its resources and is often laid to waste once its assets have been stripped....
by Alan Tate
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created,...
by Scott A. Bollens
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on seventeen years...