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  • The Future of Natural History Museums

    Edited by Eric Dorfman ...
    Series series ICOM Advances in Museum Research
    Natural history museums are changing, both because of their own internal development and in response to changes in context. Historically, the aim of collecting from nature was to develop encyclopedic assemblages to satisfy human curiosity and build a basis for taxonomic information. Today, with global biodiversity in rapid decline, there are new reasons to build and maintain collections, while ... Read more

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    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • Urban Ecological Design

    A Process for Regenerative Places

    by Danilo Palazzo, Frederick R. Steiner ...
    This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Tropical Sustainable Architecture

    Edited by Joo Hwa Bay, Boon Lay Ong ...
    The tropical belt – where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located – forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural environment. ... Read more

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  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    by Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson ...
    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Visualizing Climate Change

    A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions

    by Stephen R.J. Sheppard ...
    Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps).Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Blue Spaces

    Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being

    Edited by Simon Bell, Lora E. Fleming, James Grellier, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Mathew P. White ...
    This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities ... Read more

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  • Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design

    by Nancy Rottle, Ken Yocom ...
    Series series Basics Landscape Architecture
    Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on urban environments, this book examines the relationships between ecological design ... Read more

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  • Public Places Urban Spaces

    The Dimensions of Urban Design

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn by shifting global, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Skycourt and Skygarden

    Greening the urban habitat

    by Jason Pomeroy ...
    Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that were once so intrinsic to society’s day-to-day interactions and communal activities.This book considers skycourts ... Read more

    $73.99 USD