Landscape category: 1155 books
Walkscapes
El andar como práctica estética
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 30, 2014
El andar es un acto cognitivo y creativo capaz de transformar simbólica y físicamente tanto el espacio natural como el antrópico. Este libro narra una historia de la percepción del paisaje a través del acto de caminar: del nomadismo primitivo a las vanguardias artísticas de principios siglo...
Good Cities, Better Lives
How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas?
Urban...
Cities in Transition
Social Innovation for Europe’s Urban Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Cities in Transition focuses on the sustainability transitions initiated in 40 European cities. The book presents the incredible wealth of insights gathered through hundreds of interviews and questionnaires. Four key domains—local energy systems, local green spaces, local water systems and local...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new per
Infrastructures of Consumption
Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions, from the UK, Lithuania, India, and North America. The authors include artists, arts managers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
A common theme running through both the market economies of Western Europe and the old command economies of Eastern Europe is the desire to combine local economic development objectives with those of the international investor. It is in this context that the interaction between planning systems and property markets is of paramount importance.
Planning for Growth
Urban and Regional Planning in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China’s planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research...
Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction
Creating the modern townscape
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.
This book provides a key critical...
The Fight for Fair Housing
Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that "to continue present policies...
On Span and Space
Exploring Structures in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.
As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding...
by G. Edwin Varner
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This informative ebook guide helps new and experienced gardeners discover many flowering trees, shrubs, and vines that provide delightful fragrances for their garden.
This ebook is part of a series called The Scent of Your Garden and is an updated and revised work of the descriptive catalogs...
by Charles Fenyvesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Trees: For Shelter and Shade, For Memory and Magic by Charles Fenyvesi (44,000 words, 18 illustrations)
Linking practical neighborly advice to the many cults of tree worship across the globe, Charles Fenyvesi offers an inspiring overview of planting, pruning, and enjoying trees. He pays homage...
GEOdiseño
Métodos de Planificación Integral del Territorio
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
GEOdiseño. Métodos de Planificación Integral del Territorio, trata del proyecto en general y del geodiseño en particular. El geodiseño, como idea, posibilita una colaboración más efectiva y simbiótica entre las profesiones de las ciencias del territorio y aquellas cuyo fin es proyectar y planificar,...