Landscape architecture and design

Descriptions and photographs for 70 native plants that will thrive with little care in the yards of most Florida homeowners.

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This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital's financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century.

This book contains seven chapters that detail the future of smart cities.

Die Herrenhausen-Matinee ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung der Freunde der Herrenhäuser Gärten e.

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of landscapes.

Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

Confronter les codes et les écoles artistiques entre la France et l'Italie en matière d'urbanisme

Dans cet ouvrage initialement publié en 1984 et rapidement devenu introuvable, Jean-Louis Cohen analyse un moment-clé pour la théorie et la pratique de l’architecture contemporaine, marqué par les échanges intenses des années 1970 entre l’Italie et la France.

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First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration.

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life.

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us?

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture.

Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities.

Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.

Addressing one of the hottest trends in real estate-the development of town centers and urban villages with mixed uses in pedestrian-friendly settings-this book will help navigate through the unique design and development issues and reveal how to make all elements work together.

Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design.

"e;Details the legal, organizational, hierarchical, and environmental components of pollution prevention and waste reduction.

The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society.

Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

This book explores the cliché of ''the city of seven hills'' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.

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.

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.

Despite the critical importance of the cerebellum in brain function, the scientific community still lacks effective treatments for most cerebellar ataxias.

This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria.

"e;Patterns"e; of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander's theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language.

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to shed light on contemporary globalisation and China's integration with the world since the late 20th century.

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "e;contemporism"e; through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).

Design High-Performance Alternative Energy Systems for BuildingsA comprehensive reference for architects and engineers, this GreenSource book provides practical design and installation guidelines for some of the most commercially viable alternative energy technologies.

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.

Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination.

Walking, Landscape and Environment explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking.

This compelling resource, which was first published in 1993, was the first book on facility programming to design parameters and specifications over a broad range of project types.

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law.

This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c.

Visual Communication for Landscape Architecture demonstrates not only how and where a range of visual communication skills are needed to inform a design process, but also why they are essential in order to make presentations both informative and memorable.

This book explores the multiple facets of habit from diverse and complementary theoretical frameworks.