Landscape architecture and design

In the decades following the first Earth Day in 1970, a generation has been enlightened about the unspeakable damage done to our planet.

Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown).

The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives.

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.

Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century.

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s?

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important.

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Province's Heritage.

En el libro se exploran los modos de vida de las y los residentes de tres barrios que son el resultado de formas especificas de producir ciudad en distintos momentos de la historia de Santiago de Chile: la Unidad Vecinal Portales, un proyecto moderno de vivienda colectiva para clases medias; El Castillo, barrio de sectores populares producto de las politicas de erradicacion de campamentos en lugares centrales; y la Comunidad Ecologica de Penalolen, que expresa el ideal comunitario de las clases medias y altas de las ultimas decadas.

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking.

As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure-the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning- has become pressing.

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011).

In the 1880s, Hong Kong was a booming colonial entrepot, with many European, especially British, residents living in palatial mansions in the Mid-Levels and at the Peak.

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "e;neo-avant-garde"e; architecture.

Garten im Gebaudeinneren bieten nachhaltig eine Vielzahl okologischer und okonomischer Vorteile.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

This book presents a unique comparative case study that details the narrative around campus design at the first institutions of public higher education in the United States.

Machen Sie einen Spaziergang durch den schönsten Frankfurter Park, den Hauptfriedhof, und lernen Sie dabei die Stadtgeschichte kennen!

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

International Exhibitions and Urbanism provides an insightful and comprehensive historical review of international exhibitions in its first half, which is then illustrated with a thorough technical analysis of the Zaragoza 2008 project in its second half.

La proliferación de huertos urbanos en las ciudades no es un fenómeno circunstancial: responde a una serie de necesidades económicas, urbanísticas, ambientales y sociales que reflejan un cambio profundo en la concepción de la ciudad y en su relación con el entorno agrícola.

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change.

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit Leitfragen in der Landschaftsplanung.

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture.

What, exactly, is leadership?

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment.

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment.

What makes the city of the future?

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them.

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.

Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries.

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now.

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world.

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process?

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

Mit Sankt Fronleichnam in Aachen und Sankt Anna in Düren hat Rudolf Schwarz die Baukunst im Abstand eines Vierteljahrhunderts um zwei sakrale Utopien bereichert.

As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990's, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate.