Landscape category: 1155 books
by Lew French
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits them together...
Pianificazione paesaggistica
Questioni e contributi di ricerca
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Collana Geo_Urban&Landscape Planning (GULP) diretta da Elio Trusiani. Elemento cardine di un dibattito culturale e disciplinare sempre più complesso, il Paesaggio viene affrontato nella sua dimensione e scala territoriale mettendone a fuoco alcuni aspetti dominanti quali il rapporto tra paesaggio...
Situazioni di paesaggio
Architettura e paesaggio a Montecatini Terme
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
La pubblicazione presenta una sintesi dell'esperienza didattica e di ricerca svolta presso l'Università IUAV di Venezia, Facoltà di Architettura nel Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Architettura per il Paesaggio, all'interno del Laboratorio Integrato di Paesaggio del primo anno, durante l'anno accademico...
Disobedient Gardens
Landscapes of contrast and contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Landscape designer Michael Cooke presents five of his superbly designed gardens, including his own, which are illustrated by the lyrically beautiful photographs of coauthor Brigid Arnott. The selected landscapes encapsulate the characteristics he considers vital in the making of a truly beautiful,...
Riverine
Architecture and Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world’s largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements – given life through the space of the local waterscape – soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought...
Crisis landscapes
Opportunities and weaknesses for a sustainable development
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The economic crisis generated social consequences that go beyond those related to the environment and the landscape, now becoming an alibi to not to do anything, to not manage otherwise; and drives us to look for other places where development could be planned as a new form of exploitation, as a repeating...
On The Construction Site
Fun Facts and Pictures for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
A child would enjoy an On the Construction Site Picture Book because many children find construction machinery interesting. Some children have seen construction trucks and construction workers in person by merely passing by a construction site. An On The Construction Site Picture Book would allow a child...
The New Low-Maintenance Garden
How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Do you ever lament that you'd love to be able to garden more, but just don't have the time? The demanding pace of modern life leaves little space for the pleasures of gardening. On the other hand, gardening itself could be the culprit: elaborate, traditional perennial borders; water-hungry or disease-prone...
by Aldo Rossi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Con cerca de cincuenta años de historia, este libro forma parte del imaginario de varias generaciones de arquitectos y sigue siendo una obra fundamental para comprender los procesos de conformación de la ciudad entendida como arquitectura.
Desde que en 1966 se publicara La arquitectura de la ciudad...
A Clearing In The Distance
Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.
We know Olmsted through the physical legacy...
Ciudades radicales
Un viaje a la arquitectura latinoamericana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Este viaje por lugares extremos en América Latina empieza en México, a la sombra de una inmensa barriada de viviendas sociales de la década de 1960, cuando las colmenas de pisos baratos parecían la solución a la escasez de vivienda. Sigue visitando las villas miseria de Buenos Aires, los cerros...
by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Richard H. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of the Structural Funds, and the implementation...
Urban and Regional Technology Planning
Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.
Designed to offer scholars,...
Constructing Suburbs
Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems...