Landscape architecture and design

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit.

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit.

This book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.

This book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship.

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship.

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns.

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns.

Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category)Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category)The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector, including both buildings and infrastructure systems.

The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector, including both buildings and infrastructure systems.

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.

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.

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process?

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today's world.

Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today's world.

Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways.

Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways.

The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Jose Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century.

The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Jose Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century.

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.

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.

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants.

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants.

Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.

Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past.

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past.

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism.

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism.

The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis.

The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis.

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking.

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking.

This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development.

This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development.

There has been much written on the new creative economy, but most work focuses on the so-called 'creative class,' with lifestyle preferences that favor trendy new restaurants, mountain biking, and late night clubbing.

There has been much written on the new creative economy, but most work focuses on the so-called 'creative class,' with lifestyle preferences that favor trendy new restaurants, mountain biking, and late night clubbing.

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

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

When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style.

When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style.

The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies.

The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies.