Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso's Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education.

The fast-paced nature of the design business means that you probably spend most of your time, energy and resources looking after your clients' needs, not your own.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own.

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance.

The focus of this book is on the classic, ageless, and enduring flowers, which we have dubbed Vintage roses.

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture.

Conceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture.

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R.

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn.

EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings.

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy.

This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

Cassiobury Park has an incredible history.

Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy.

Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations.

**This title was originally published in 2007.

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers.

The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums.

In this incredibly comprehensive and gorgeously photographed guide, master gardener Stacy Ling helps aspiring green thumbs achieve success with her easy-to-grow, easy-care, and low maintenance approach to growing beautiful flowers.

This colourful guide will explain the fundamentals of growing plants, whether you are taking a Level 3 RHS, City and Guilds or Edexcel course, are a grower or gardener in the industry, or are just a keen amateur.

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity.

Gardeners disagree about many things—cannas, double petunias, the color magenta—but on one subject they are unanimous.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb.

'If outdoor activities with young children have always baffled you, then this is the book for you.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Architects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice.

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations, contracts, and a range of design guidelines including materials, SuDS, environmental impact, and landscape character assessment.

Ornamental Lakes traces the history of lakes in England, from their appearance in the early eighteenth century, through their development in the 1750s, and finally to their decline in the nineteenth century.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

What makes a visually appealing landscape?

This book provides designers, planners, educators, and therapists with the practical information required to remove inequity in outdoor spaces, by creating inviting and inclusive solutions so that all children and their families, regardless of situation or circumstance, can experience the joys and benefits of outdoor play without stigma.

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture's increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.