Landscape architecture and design

This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature.

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

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers.

"Ein Bauwelt-Fundament über die Architektur des Dekonstruktivismus?

Zwischen Architektur, Stadt und Landschaft existiert eine Wechselbeziehung, die in den arbeitsteilig getrennten Fachhorizonten von Architekten, Stadt- und Landschaftsplanern, Bau- und Sozialhistorikern immer wieder aus dem Blick gerät.

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

Written as an advocacy of melancholy's value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape's aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy.

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.

What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method?

Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling.

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process.

Developing a program to train planning commissioners and zoning board members takes a lot of time and effort.

The era of analog drawing is coming to an end.

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

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.

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.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).

In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River's hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people.

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice.

Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm's environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm's unique position, and importantly the question of how well Stockholm's practices can be exported and transposed to other places and contexts.

This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions.

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

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Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale.

Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial configurations.

Urban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments.

This book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from different eras, which serve to depict the social, political, and cultural effects that domestic architecture and interior design had on the upper class, the city of Boston, and a national American identity.

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

In this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being.

Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance.

Public Gardens Management: A Global Perspective provides essential information about public gardens and what is involved in designing, managing, and maintaining one.

The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting.

This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia.

Africa is one of the most dynamic continents.

Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations.

A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original and engaging style by academic and theorist Tim Waterman.

Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research that brings together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing - including transportation, housing, energy, and foodways - and illustrates the role of design in delivering cities in the future that can enhance our health and wellbeing.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

Von den mächtigen Burgen des Deutschen Ordens bis zu den prunkvollen Schlössern der Hohenzollern – die Baukunst Preußens erzählt die Geschichte einer Region, die sich stetig wandelte.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

Landscape Design with Plants, Second Edition focuses on landscape architecture.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.

Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff war eine in Deutschland kaum bekannte Gartenarchitektin des 20.