Landscape architecture and design

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.

A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green RoofsWritten by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green roofs.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESIDENTIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTS Written by a successful practitioner of both residential and commercial architecture, this hands-on resource enables you to transfer and expand your architectural design skills and successfully integrate single-family residential design into your professional practice.

With urbanization as a global phenomenon, there is a need for data and information about these terrains.

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change.

There are infinite ways to build a community, yet the defining feature of any community is characteristically the landscape.

Public Space: notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential journeys a vast territory and presents a panoramic view of public space-an understanding from numerous disciplines-under one cover in an incisive and concise manner.

There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel.

No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings.

Ce dossier appréhende des espaces de bain souvent dissociés, ceux liés à la propreté et à l’hygiène et ceux liés aux loisirs, au bien-être ou aux rituels religieux.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (6FMA), A Coruna 2022.

This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide.

This major reference presents the challenges, issues and directions of computer-based visualization of the natural and built environment and the role of such visualization in landscape and environmental planning.

Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape.

In an urbanizing world, the city is considered the ultimate model and the measure of all things.

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed?

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China.

This book offers a multivocal and interdisciplinary arena that brings together a wide range of thoughts and approaches addressing the intricacies of dealing with the historical city today.

Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

The modern city is not only pavement and concrete.

Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions.

Why you should worry less about AI and more about what makes us humanWe are at a crossroads in history.

This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America.

This book explores aspects of creating cities and structures with a focus on sustainability.

Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another.

This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "e;smart"e; approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment.

Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters.

China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable.

Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota.

Voici une approche de gestion développante des eaux pluviales en milieu urbanisé.

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

This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain.

The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architectureFor more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture.

The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning of interest in ecological or naturally-inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape.

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.

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law.

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the 'loss of publicness' of contemporary urban public places.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law.

Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats.

In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design.

This book aims to provide innovative solutions to the various problems faced during the infrastructural development across the globe.

This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe.

Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day.

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