Landscape category: 1155 books
by Eugene P Odum
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Indicators for Urban and Regional Planning
The Interplay of Policy and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book focuses on the measurement and utilisation of quantitative indicators in the urban and regional planning fields. There has been a resurgence of academic and policy interest in using indicators to inform planning, partly in response to the current government's information intensive approach...
Crossing Borders
International Exchange and Planning Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when external influences...
Strategic Environmental Assessment
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends...
Water and the City
Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over recent decades...
Sustainability Indicators
Measuring the Immeasurable?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers...
Rural Design
A New Design Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems...
Planning, Law and Economics
The Rules We Make for Using Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved?
This book addresses these essential questions and shows that the interests people have in property rights over land and buildings...
Cities and Power
Worldwide Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
What do cities tell us about power? How does power shape cities? These are the main questions answered by a multidisciplinary set of eminent urban scholar in crisp articles on capital cities from around the world, from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Jakarta to Moscow. Focus is on contemporary cities...
The Green City
Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most
Second Nature Urban Agriculture
Designing Productive Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research
This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities".
"Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and...
Public Produce
The New Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central governmintervention, but for local governminvolvemin shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to...
Facilitating Watershed Management
Fostering Awareness and Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed...
Architecture and Agriculture
A Rural Design Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place. Following on from the author’s first book Rural Design, the book discusses...