Landscape architecture and design

For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries.

Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power.

First published in 1993.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded.

Islands and their environs - aerial, terrestrial, aquatic - may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities.

This book in two volumes, and with a foreword by the renowned Professor M.

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030.

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia.

'If outdoor activities with young children have always baffled you, then this is the book for you.

Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "e;post-political"e;.

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities.

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it.

After two decades of evolution and transformation, London had become one of the most open and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.

This is a book about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies and communities.

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.

Over the past fifty years, local government in Europe has been confronted with escalating scales of production, population migration and market pressures.

Development of brownfield land can address shortfalls in the availability of land for housing and other buildings, but these sites present a range of problems that must be overcome in any successful development.

This book tells the story of the Mount Songshan area architecture in simple terms, while also providing detailed information on the history of Buddhist architecture.

By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants.

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences and humanities.

As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest.

Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors.

Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of urban sound environment.

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R.

A new edition of a book widely regarded as a classic of landscape architecture, it deals with the 'bits' that go in between the different parts of the urban landscape.

This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the governing processes and characteristics that drive morphodynamic evolution in alluvial estuaries by application of a process-based numerical model (Delft3D).

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows.

A major revision of a classic planning text.

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

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field.

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.

The constant in architecture's evolution is change.

Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!

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.

Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America.

This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai.