Landscape category: 1155 books
by Danny Maccabee
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Create a living fence on your property with a row of bushes or small trees. Instead of costly fiberglass, unsightly chain-link or wood-panel fences with short life spans, a hedge is a type of fence or barrier that offers year-round beauty. A neatly manicured hedge separating your yard from adjacent...
Trails for the Twenty-First Century
Planning, Design, and ManagemManual for Multi-Use Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Communities across the country are working to convert unused railway and canal corridors into trails for pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and others, serving the needs of both recreationists and commuters alike. These multi-use trails can play a key role in improving livability, as they offer...
Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays
Successes and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities – including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares...
by Ron Kasprisin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In Play in Creative Problem-solving for Planners and Architects, "play" is defined, explored and demonstrated as a critical catalyst in creative problem-solving processes. The book defines the current psychological research into play and creative problem-solving, explores the necessary integration...
Practical Golf Course Maintenance
The Magic of Greenkeeping
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The revised, bestselling resource of practical, nontechnical advice for maintaining and operating a golf course
Practical Golf Course Maintenance, Third Edition presents the latest information and techniques for providing first-rate upkeep and management operations for any golf course. This...
Creating Outdoor Classrooms
Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Schoolyards have come a long way from the barren playgrounds that many people remember. Today's school campuses often feature gardens in which students can learn about native plants and wildlife, grow vegetables and fruit, explore cultural traditions, practice reading and math skills, and use their...
by Kaaron Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
From Bram Stoker Award nominated author Kaaron Warren, comes Book 6 in the Twelve Planets collection series.
Country road, city street, mountain, creek.
These are stories inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness, loneliness and perfection of the Australian landscape.
‘Every...
Nature Modern
The Place of Landscape in the Modern Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Nature is not simply "green” or the "opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative...
SketchUp for Site Design
A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain, and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The site designer's guide to SketchUp's powerful modeling capabilities
SketchUp for Site Design is the definitive guide to SketchUp for landscape architects and other site design professionals. Step-by-step tutorials walk you through basic to advanced processes, with expert guidance toward...
The Urban Section
An analytical tool for cities and streets
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The design of streets, and the connections between streets of different character, is the most important task for architects and urbanists working in an urban context. Considered at two distinct spatial scales – that of the individual street – the Street Section – and the complex of city streets...
Caves in Context
The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversity of caves over space and time. Caves and rockshelters...
The Northwest Garden Manifesto
Create, Restore and Maintain a Sustainable Yard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Gardens are extensions of our homes, places in which we get outside to relax, entertain, and get some physical exercise. But our gardens are also extensions of the natural world. Through our gardens, as well as other neighborhood greenspaces, we can help counter some of the woes faced by larger environments:...
by J. Howard Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
Knowing when and how to plant a tree are crucial to its survival. But if you select the wrong tree for your particular area and conditions, the proper planting techniques will not make a difference. Because Texas is a big place with varied climates, soils, and water qualities, a wide variety of trees...
by Vera Schwarcz
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of...