Landscape architecture and design

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L.

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

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

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940.

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.

'History writing at its compulsive best' A.

'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?

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

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.

What goes on in our heads when we have a thought?

El patrimonio cultural de las ciudades de América Latina está intrínsecamente ligado al desarrollo histórico de la época colonial.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

Many descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person's emotions.

This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs.

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This book focuses on the study of chemical dust suppression in mine dust pollution control by means of theories, experiments, computer simulation, and case application, aiming at providing chemical dust suppression solutions for mining worksites.

This book examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death.

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence.

This textbook on the Green City examines urban nature as an ideal, provider of services and conceptual urban design approach.

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking-small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal.

This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods.

This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes.

The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life.

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects.

This volume presents innovative work on innovative methods, tools and practices aimed at supporting the transition of Asian and Middle Eastern cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time?

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?

Get answers FAST with the Landscape Architect's One-Stop,Take-It-Anywhere GuideIn the office or out on the job, the Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook puts the 20% of information you need 80% of the time at your fingertips!

One of America's most accomplished landscaping professionals reveals his methods for cultivating greatness.

Japanese gardens are found throughout the world todaytheir unique forms now considered a universal art form.

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.

Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world.

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

Just as there is love at first sight between people, Vclav Clek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place.

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

The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park.

Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes.

The fourth in a series that documents architectural conservation in different parts of the world, Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the Earth's surface.

The fourth in a series that documents architectural conservation in different parts of the world, Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the Earth's surface.

Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks?

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.

Global Sustainable Communities Handbook is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world.