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by Francesco Careri
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2016
En su anterior libro Walkscapes. El caminar como práctica estética, Francesco Careri eleva a la categoría de arte el acto de caminar. En sus páginas nos descubre el andar como un instrumento cognitivo y creativo capaz de transformar simbólica y físicamente el espacio, un estudio que, con los...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader – aimed at professors, students, and researchers – provides...
by Carlos García Vázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2016
La ciudad contemporánea es una criatura incierta. Su condición de amalgama de variables sociales y económicas, culturales y políticas, temporales y espaciales, la convierte en un hojaldre múltiple difícil de aprehender. Infinidad de teorías e historias llevan décadas intentándolo, de lo que...
by Andrea Wulf
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before.
For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for...
Beautiful No-Mow Yards
50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
“A compelling rationale for ignoring the siren song of the ‘perfect’ lawn, and step-by-step instructions for creating easy-care, planet-friendly patches of paradise.” —Fine Gardening
In Beautiful No-Mow Yards, Evelyn Hadden offers the ultimate guide to rethinking your lawn-dominated...
The Allergy-Fighting Garden
Stop Asthma and Allergies with Smart Landscaping
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Breathe Easy with This Groundbreaking Gardening Guide
If you are one of the millions of people with allergies or asthma, this totally unique book shows you how to avoid plants that trigger allergies and to create a garden that will actually protect you by trapping pollen and cleaning the air...
American Eden
From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
“Informative and absolutely engrossing.”...
Rebuilding the American City
Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet...
Saving Central Park
A History and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey...
Britain's New Towns
Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?
This book covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged,...
Planning Olympic Legacies
Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion...
Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change
A Comparison of Urban Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Since the 1990s ‘beliefs’, ‘ideas’ or ‘knowledge’ as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution...
by Stefano De Angelis, Maria Mazza
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Le città sono lo specchio dei nostri tempi: caotiche, inquinate, poco attraenti.
Ma qual è la città? Come si evolveranno nel prossimo futuro? Come potranno cambiare per vincere le difficili sfide dei prossimi decenni?
Il testo descrive i criteri di base per l'analisi del territorio urbano e propone...
Japanese Stone Gardens
Origins, Meaning, Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book.
Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden—from their earliest use...