Landscape architecture and design

Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public.

This book highlights the key phases and central findings of Alzheimer's Disease research since the introduction of the label 'Alzheimer's Disease' in 1910.

This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the eraIn the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport - a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship - scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of long COVID fatigue using advanced neuroimaging and artificial intelligence (AI).

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history.

First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research.

Braunschweig abseits der bisher bekannten Plätze und Prachtbauten: Zeichnungen eines Unbekannten enthüllen detailliert das Aussehen und das Leben der Stadt vor 260 Jahren.

Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape.

Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style.

Dieses Buch wendet sich nicht an den Amerikaspezialisten, sondern an diejenigen politisch Interessierten, die mit Erstaunen und Verwun­ derung, manchmal vielleicht auch mit Befremden und Enttäuschung das letzte Jahrzehnt der amerikanischen Geschichte verfolgt haben.

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism.

Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability.

Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful.

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning.

During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity.

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.

This book explores the tenacity of Iran's informal settlements against the backdrop of the World Bank's USD 80 million loan for physical upgrading.

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a 'mobilities turn'.

There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play.

This richly illustrated, up-to-date guide offers practical coverage of all aspects of lighting design.

Im Rahmen des Fortschrittskollegs Energieeffizienz im Quartier wurde das Thema von 11 DoktorandInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen untersucht.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

Este libro ahonda en una época definitiva en la vida de Rogelio Salmona.

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This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty.

This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twentyfirst century.

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio.

The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

This book-Mind, Body, and Digital Brains-focuses on both theoretical and empirical issues and joins contributions from different disciplines, concepts, and sensibilities, bringing together scholars from fields that at first glance may appear different-Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience; Robotics, Computer Science, Deep Learning, and Information Processing Systems; Education, Philosophy, Law, and Psychology.

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action.

For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated.

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures.