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  • Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning

    Technology and Applications

    Edited by Ian Bishop, Eckart Lange ...
    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. It offers a uniquely systematic approach to the potential of visualization and the writers are acknowledged experts in their field of specialization. Case studies are presented to ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

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  • The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

    by Tim Waterman ...
    Series series Fundamentals
    From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of today's most crucial issues and this book provides an introduction to the key elements of this broad field.The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture explains the process of designing for sites, calling upon historical precedent and evolving philosophies to discuss how a project moves from concept to ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Measuring Landscapes

    A Planner's Handbook

    by Andre Botequilha Leitao, Joseph Miller, Jack Ahern, Kevin McGarigal ...
    This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound habitats. Until now, only a small portion of the relevant science has influenced the decision-making arenas where the future of our landscapes is debated and decided.The authors explain specific tools ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Urban Planning as a Trading Zone

    Edited by Alessandro Balducci, Raine Mäntysalo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept to different contexts of urban planning and management, where there is a need for new ideas and tools ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Transcultural Cities

    Border-Crossing and Placemaking

    Edited by Jeffrey Hou ...
    Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work. The book addresses the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Community-Built

    Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place

    Edited by Katherine Melcher, Barry Stiefel, Kristin Faurest ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control: A Bioengineering Approach

    A Bioengineering Approach

    by Roy P.C. Morgan, R.J. Rickson ...
    This book is an up-to-date review of research and practice on the use of vegetation for slope stabilization and control of surface erosion caused by water and wind. From a basic understanding of the principles and practices of vegetation growth and establishment, it describes how vegetation can be treated as an engineering material and used to solve erosion and slope stability problems. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Insurgent Public Space

    Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities

    Edited by Jeffrey Hou ...
    Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Introduction to Residential Layout

    by Mike Biddulph ...
    Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas. Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework from which he offers comprehensive practical advice for designers of housing developments. Referring ... Read more

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  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD