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  • Landscape as Infrastructure

    A Base Primer

    by Pierre Belanger ...
    As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including shifting climates, material flows, and population mobilities, are addressed and strategized here. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

    by Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, Richard T.T. Forman ...
    Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Site Analysis

    Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design

    by James A. LaGro Jr. ...
    The process-oriented guide to context-sensitive site selection, planning, and designSustainable design is responsive to context. And each site has a unique set of physical, biological, cultural, and legal attributes that presents different opportunities and constraints for alternative uses of the site. Site analysis systematically evaluates these on-site and off-site factors to inform the design ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • The Art of Setting Stones

    & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

    by Marc Peter Keane ...
    Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens.In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science.Landscape architect Marc Keane shows ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Landskipping

    Painters, Ploughmen and Places

    by Anna Pavord ...
    Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Living Architecture

    Green Roofs and Walls

    by Christine Goodwin, Graeme Hopkins ...
    Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world are becoming denser, with greater built form resulting in more hard surfaces and less green space, leaving little room for vegetation or habitat. One way of creating more ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Harmony of disenchantment

    by Rosario Di Petta ...
    The look of a disenchanted neapolitan violinist is the thread that connects the nodes of its existence. The magic of Budapest as a backdrop to the sinking of his illusions; yet it is precisely the ability to react to any defeat will make him a kind of skillful surfer, able to ride the waves most impressive. In this eternal resume lies, perhaps, the harmony that governs his life. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • A Clearing In The Distance

    Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Unknown World of the Mobile Home

    by John Fraser Hart, Michelle J Rhodes, John T Morgan ...
    Series series Creating the North American Landscape
    An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States.In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to ... Read more

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  • Therapeutic Landscapes

    An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces

    by Clare Cooper Marcus, Naomi A Sachs ...
    This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • The Green City

    Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs

    by Nicholas Low, Brendon Gleeson, Ray Green, Darko Radovic ...
    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

    $57.99 USD