Landscape architecture and design

Explore and expand your creative skill set with The Central Saint Martins Guide to Art & Design, fully updated in 2023 in line with the current course, with a new afterword by Rathna Ramanathan, Head of Central Saint Martins.

A guided tour of historic Unionville, a little Ontario village bursting with historic buildings full of stories.

Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people.

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Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana.

Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it.

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?

Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future.

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of 'consent' across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O.

The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself.

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

Göttingen – eine Stadt, deren Geschichte so facettenreich ist wie die Epochen, die sie durchlebt hat.

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.

This new edition of bestselling textbook Introducing Property Valuation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate, helping them to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

Edited and authored by a wealth of international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines, this key new resource aims to offer medical students and graduate researchers around the world a comprehensive introduction and overview of modern neuroscience.

Today, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science.

Cet ouvrage se veut une contribution empirique à l’études des cultures urbaines de la jeunesse, mobilisant plusieurs voix montréalaises.

How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses?

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples.

This book presents works that book offer a novel interpretation of how today's urban problems can be tackled through the efficient use of resources and the modeling of solutions to best utilize the available features of cities.

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition.

The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled "e;Cities, States, and Trust Networks,"e; examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship.

La inteligencia es un tema que ocupa gran parte de nuestras vidas.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world.

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change?

Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clement may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc Andre Citron and the garden of the Musee du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener.

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants.

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 book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959.

Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments.

In the emerging new collaborative economic order, innovation is achieved by an integrated process of collaboration between policymakers, business and society.

Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York's public space over the past few decades.

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015).

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale?

In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development.