Landscape architecture and design

What makes a city?

Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely.

Global Sustainable Communities Handbook is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world.

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.

How does one tell the story of energy production, use, or conservation in a manner sufficiently convincing to influence policy, behavior, and design?

This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration.

Kongjian Yu und sein Buro Turenscape sind zweifelsohne das heute wichtigste Buro fur Landschaftsarchitektur in China.

This book gathers current research studies which explore new technologies in architecture and urban practices which ensure the efficient management of cities' infrastructures and provide new solutions to the complex complications that may result in the tackling of challenges of population density, traffic planning, and city planning at the neighborhood scale or rather the scale of buildings and everyday life.

The integration of Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design (LUP & UD) is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary field.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designing external works.

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The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world.

Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form.

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.

This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly accessible buildings.

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles.

In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape architectural education.

Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

Le mouvement de métropolisation, engagé en France dans les années 1960, et fortement accentué sous l’effet de la loi de réforme des collectivités territoriales de 2010 par la création des métropoles et des pôles métropolitains, puis amplifié par la loi MAPTAM, suscite nombre d’interrogations et figure aujourd’hui au centre du débat public.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

SUPERB EXECUTION RELIES UPON RIGOROUS PROJECT DOCUMENTATION A project will only be built as well as it is documented.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity.

Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins.

Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design.

City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City.

Achieving high water use efficiency in maintaining turf, trees and landscape areas is a core responsibility of open space managers.

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

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia.

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492.

In a world filled with stories of environmental devastation and social dysfunction, EcoVillage at Ithaca is a refreshing and hopeful look at a modern-day village that is taking an integrated approach to addressing these problems.

Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century.

Construction in the Landscape describes the impact of construction on the land and landscape where it takes place.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

This book discusses the way to design and plan for regenerative cities and landscapes.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb.

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

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.

This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture.