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  • Manchester's Philips Park

    A Park for the People, By the People, Since 1845

    by Allan R. Ruff ...
    Manchester’s Philips Park was the world’s first designed public park in an industrial city, but it is more than the celebration of a single park. Unlike many historic private gardens that have been fully documented, the history of the ‘peoples’ park’ has been largely overlooked. The history of Philips Park serves to illustrate the story of all Victorian parks. It shows why they are important ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Arcadian Visions

    Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape

    by Allan R. Ruff ...
    This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Author and a Gardener

    by Allan R. Ruff ...
    In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence ‘Johnnie’ Johnston, the creator of two famous gardens, at Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, in England and Serre de la Madone, Menton, on the Côte d’Azur in the south of France. Wharton and Johnston ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Landscape Design Ideas

    Professional Secrets To Pool Landscape Design, Backyard Landscape Designs, Landscape Design A Cultural And Architectural History, Landscape Design Software and Landscape Design A Practical Approach

    Get Great Ideas For landscape design ideas, pool landscape design, backyard landscape designs, landscape design a cultural and architectural history, landscape design software, and landscape design a practical approach. ... Read more

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  • How to Compost

    A Guide to A Systematic Study of Composting, Worm Compost, Organic Compost, Compost Tumbler, Kitchen Composter, Compost Bins and Making Compost

    by James Zermeno ...
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  • Data Visualization for Design Thinking

    Applied Mapping

    Data Visualization for Design Thinking helps you make better maps. Treating maps as applied research, you’ll be able to understand how to map sites, places, ideas, and projects, revealing the complex relationships between what you represent, your thinking, the technology you use, the culture you belong to, and your aesthetic practices. More than 100 examples illustrated with over 200 color images ... Read more

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  • The Green City

    Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs

    A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • RHS The Urban Gardener

    by Matt James ...
    Garden designer, lecturer and broadcaster Matt James explores how to design an urban outdoor space, no matter the size or location - from balconies and roof terraces to courtyards, basement areas and front gardens, factoring in areas for relaxation, play and growing your own produce.There are 16 step-by-step projects including creating a 'living' green wall, planting under mature trees and making ... Read more

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  • Great City Parks

    by Alan Tate ...
    Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at ... Read more

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  • The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

    The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

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  • Site Matters

    Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

    Edited by Carol Burns, Andrea Kahn ...
    One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings.Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling ... Read more

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