Landscape architecture and design

Urban climate change is a crossroads in two very different senses.

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl.

This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015.

This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), many of which have not been published before.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

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

The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences.

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.

Die Herrenhäuser Gärten bestechen in ihrer nachbarschaftlichen Versammlung verschiedener Gartentypen (Großer Garten, Berggarten, Georgengarten, Welfengarten), die ein Stück Welfengeschichte und eine einzigartige Konzentration verschiedener Gartenformationen bieten.

Wetland planting can bring back biodiversity, reduce the impact of drought and flood, improve water quality and conserve beauty in a mismanaged landscape.

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture.

The theory of anticipation suggests that systems, both biological and social, can adapt and update based on predictive models.

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods.

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity.

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Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andre Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions?

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development.

Designing with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and artistic practices.

Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age.

It is the first in-depth profile of Rome''s transformation over a millenium to appear in any language in over forty years.

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing.

'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally.

The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applicationsexplores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design.

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape.

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

There are now over 2,000 cities with a bike share program.

Avoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they will attract.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

Communication across and integration of disciplines in the urban-water sector seems today more imperative than ever before.

This book approaches three important aspects related with urban regeneration such as research, innovation and challenges.

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

ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.

A comprehensive, one-stop guide to environmental stewardship for golf courses and grounds This highly practical guide covers the full complement of tools green industry professionals need to create a successful environmental program on golf courses and grounds.

The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housingWhile the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities.

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technology through a comparative study of four of the world's most important radio telescopes.

Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017Winner of the AILA VIC Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017Highly Commended (Communication and Presentation) Landscape Institute Awards 2018Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions.

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one.

This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space.

This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition.

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from the more well-known domains of art and architectural criticism.

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

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city.

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.

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities.

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.

Dieses Buch prasentiert die aktuellen stadtebaulichen und architektonischen Entwicklungen in Fernost.