Landscape category: 1155 books
Dogscaping
Creating the Perfect Backyard and Garden for You and Your Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
For dog owners and garden lovers alike, Dogscaping presents a plan for the family dog to live in perfect harmony with a green, beautiful backyard. Whether the family dog is a demon digger like a terrier or a shade-seeking greyhound, Dogscaping offers solutions for all dog owners to create the perfect...
by Shamara Perkinz
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
How To Have The Best Garden Flower Designs By Using Bare Root Roses, Annuals and Perennials, Bulb Flowers, Container Gardening and Backyard Flower Gardens
by Dewberry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2008
The Definitive Guide to Land Development-Every Detail, Every Issue, Every Setting
Land Development Handbook provides a step-by-step approach to any type of project, from rural greenfield development to suburban infill to urban redevelopment. With the latest information regarding green technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and...
Community-Built
Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets...
by Sally Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approach to achieving quality urban living.
by Nabeel Hamdi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical...
Town and Terraced Housing
For Affordability and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient...
Environmental Planning for Site Development
A Manual for Sustainable Local Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Environmental planning forms the basis of all site development decisions and deals with the factors that must be considered before a site plan can be drawn up. Environmental Planning for Site Development emphasizes the man/nature interface and explains how nature limits and controls what can happen...
Public Garden Management
A Complete Guide to the Planning and Administration of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The complete-and-ready reference for establishing, managing, and running a successful and sustainable, profitable public garden
As unique museums with living collections of plants, public gardens offer visitors aesthetically beautiful landscapes combined with educational programming and scientific...
Socially Restorative Urbanism
The theory, process and practice of Experiemics
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The need for a human-orientated approach to urbanism is well understood, and yet all too often this dimension remains lacking in urban design. In this book the authors argue for and develop socially restorative urbanism – a new conceptual framework laying the foundations for innovative ways of thinking...
by Bob Evans, Marko Joas, Susan Sundback
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban...
by Marion Roberts, Adam Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers. In the context of liberalised licensing and a growing culture around the '24-hour city', the desire to foster economic growth and to achieve urban regeneration has been set on a collision course with the...
Capital Spaces
The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commerical developments like...