Landscape architecture and design

For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design-from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity formation.

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "e;terrain vague,"e; has become increasingly important.

Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed.

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side.

Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time.

The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies.

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry.

The Shenzhen Phenomenon is a comprehensive and systematic study about how Shenzhen, the world's fastest growing city, has developed into an international metropolis from scratch within 40 years.

In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments.

There have been such great changes in legislation, official guidance, the British Standards and the techniques used in landscape and external works since the third edition was written ten years ago that the Handbook has been totally rewritten for this edition.

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD.

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future.

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "e;green urbanism,"e; both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked.

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.

'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location.

The grove, a grouping of trees, intentionally cultivated or found growing wild, has a long diverse history entwined with human settlement, rural practices and the culture and politics of cities.

Children and young people are often discussed as if they are homogenous groups.

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy.

Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before.

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies.

This book explores the important relationship between the way we see and the way we draw architectural ideas.

Peter Walker is one of the most seminal and prolific figures in contemporary landscape design worldwide - both as a teacher and as practitioner.

The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects.

Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.

This book provides practicing planners with the knowledge of how to bring real world planning projects to a successful and efficient.

A practical, single-source guide to successful strategies for landscape architecture research As the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating, and validating knowledge.

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations.

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

Community planning is starting to include a broader food systems focus, spanning topics such as nutrition and health outcomes, sustainable farming practices, economic and social implications of local food production, distribution, and consumption.

The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India.

The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning?

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built environment.

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments.

Gerd de Bruyn widerspricht der ermüdenden Rede von der zweiten und dritten Moderne.