Landscape architecture and design

Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes seeks to 'bring the animal in' to the leisure studies domain and contribute to greater understanding of leisure as a complex, interwoven multispecies phenomenon.

Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from AGBP3.

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially and economically marginalized groups are appropriated or erased by the introduction luxury real estate and retail branding.

First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

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For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see.

Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing.

Urban and Industrial Water Conservation Methods provides comprehensive and practical information regarding water use for various different sectors and describes the most suitable conservation devices and techniques to reduce water consumption in urban environments.

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence.

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

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems).

Bei jedem stadtebaulichen Entwurf, bei jedem Eingriff in die raumliche Struktur offentlicher stadtischer Raume stellt sich die Frage nach der Komposition und den raumlichen Qualitaten von Platzen.

In den Ost-Berliner Ortsteilen Pankow und Grünau entstanden ab April 1949 auf Anregung der Sowjetischen Militäradministration drei Siedlungen mit insgesamt 93 Häusern, in denen hervorragende Persönlichkeiten der sogenannten Intelligenz in der SBZ/DDR untergebracht wurden.

The must-read book from the creators of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast - perfect for fans of The Art of Thinking Clearly and Factfulness (and all aspiring skeptics)This book will change the way you think about thinking.

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city's program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces.

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

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This title was first published in 2002.

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development.

It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places which could be enhanced through sensitive change.

'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images.

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.

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.

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings.

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples.

In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place.

The Architecture Portfolio Guidebook shows you how to make portfolios for both academic and professional needs to provide reviewers exactly what they are looking for.

Dans les dernières années, des actes de vandalisme « antigentrification » visant des petits commerces ont considérablement tendu le débat public montréalais, désormais polarisé entre les tenants d’une revitalisation des quartiers en déclin et une mouvance critique cherchant à attirer l’attention sur les inégalités de classes dans l’appropriation de l’espace urbain.

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies.

This book offers an overview of India's emerging digital economy and the resulting challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces.

In his international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do.

Demands on landscape architecture students' time are many and varied - when is there a chance to just sketch, and is it worth dedicating your time to the pursuit of drawing?

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities.

Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa.

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.

In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch.

Understanding landscape design as a dynamic, not static, art form Landscape architects do not situate their work in a vacuum.

This book presents a unique comparative case study that details the narrative around campus design at the first institutions of public higher education in the United States.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Fragestellung „Wie lässt sich landschaftsbezogenes Wohlbefinden in der räumlichen Planung greifbar machen?