Landscape architecture and design

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes.

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts.

An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

Evolving Public Space in South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country.

Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities.

Architekten sind es gewohnt, visuell zu entwerfen.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andre Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions?

The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term 'wellbeing'.

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.

'Smit's vision of Eden is the eighth wonder of the world' Independent'Inspiring.

Die Arlesheimer Ermitage ist der grösste und bedeutendste Landschaftsgarten der Schweiz.

*Please note the 2015 paperback is a reprint of the original 2008 hardback*In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism.

A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants.

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For thousands of years, music has acted as a powerful medium for evoking emotions, facilitating communication, and nurturing overall well-being.

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event.

Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed.

What if you remembered things that never happened?

An eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.

La historia del jardín ha estado tradicionalmente marcada por un discurso basado en el orden visual y el control que ejerce el hombre sobre las especies vegetales.

A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload.

Space is an ambiguous and sometimes controversial term.

The bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk and Subliminal unlocks the secrets of flexible thinking.

'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "e;European city"e;, from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen JonesA searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere.

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible?

The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban.

Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else.

'A tour de force .

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems - from climate change to overpopulation - lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living This is going to be the century of the city.

Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems.

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Extrait : "On n'a pas oublié les débats passionnés, les discussions orageuses, qu'a soulevés, dans le public et dans la presse, la question des Eaux de Paris.

El libro que se presenta al lector, no pretende contemplar la historia de Bogotá en su totalidad, simplemente se contenta con presentar algunas pinceladas sobre el largo recorrido de la ciudad a través de 450 años, deteniéndose en algunos pocos edificios, ciertas manzanas y unas pocas instituciones, sin pretender haber agotado el tema en ninguno de los apuntes que conforman esta recapitulación, conformada por diversos trabajos realizados por el autor en el doble ejercicio de su actividad profesional del Arquitecto Restaurador y de su indeclinable interés por la historia de la Arquitectura.

Treehouses have always been a symbol of imagination and adventure, but despite the traditional stereotype, treehouses are not just for children and children's stories.

En el año 1929 Le Corbusier viaja a Buenos Aires y visita Brasil y Uruguay.

Extrait: "On sait que l'île de la Cité fut longtemps tout Paris.

El andar es un acto cognitivo y creativo capaz de transformar simbólica y físicamente tanto el espacio natural como el antrópico.

'Thought-provoking and practical .

El tercer libro de la colección.

Advance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, and potential of urban design by one of Canada s preeminent urban designers.

Space is an ambiguous and sometimes controversial term.

'Required reading .