Landscape architecture and design

This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.

It has become increasingly evident that effective planning for sustainable communities, environments and economies pivots on the ability of planners to see the possibilities for culture in comprehensive social, historical and environmental terms and to more fully engage with the cultural practices, processes and theorisation that comprise a social formation.

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region.

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel.

The Essentials of Building Design--at Your Fingertips!

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

A detailed, practical guide (with the backing of the main UK authorities) to the construction and maintenance of sports grounds.

This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route.

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.

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed.

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

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit.

It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded.

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD.

The high street is in crisis.

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space.

Arguing that a gulf exists between design and construction, between conceptual thinking and the constructed building, this book explores projects and practices that span the gap by thinking through materials and processes with what Howeler calls a tectonic imagination.

The housing crisis confronts two of North America's contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities.

The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India.

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

This book provides an overview of the current planning paradigms and technical strategies to cope with climatechange, specifically flooding.

The tests a golfer faces on the course are the direct result of the challenges originally faced by the golf course architect, whether they be complicated terrain, forces of nature, budget limitations, demanding developers, or the difficult task of balancing the practical scientific needs of a golf course with the architects creative instincts.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though previously undescribed) experience that can happen to us when we travel, a special understanding and ability that can leave us feeling exhilarated.

This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

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

Exploring Food and Urbanism looks at the ways food and cities interconnect in a diversity of places across the globe.

This third edition of the standard text Countryside Conservation charts and evaluates those changes which represent a fundamental revolution in the ways in which the countryside is planned and managed.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century.

Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development.

This book summarizes the latest studies regarding innovation in urban design and planning.

If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them - even if the planner pays?

"e;A volume for a lifetime"e; is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s.

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio.

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

At least 162 species of fish are known to live or spawn in the freshwaters of the Northeast, representing twenty-eight families and sixteen orders.

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a 'passport' to enter the professional sphere.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design.

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture.

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning.