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  • 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

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Urban Design: Method and Techniques

    by Rafael Cuesta, Christine Sarris, Paola Signoretta, J.C Moughtin ...
    This book deals with a wide range of techniques used in the urban design process. It then goes on to relate these techniques to a unique, comprehensive account of method. A method of urban design is developed which has sustainability and environmental protection at the centre of its philosophy. Previously, literature regarding the urban design method has been almost totally neglected; this book ... Read more

    $77.99 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

  • Public Produce

    The New Urban Agriculture

    by Darrin Nordahl ...
    Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • The Design Charrette

    Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    Was $66.99 USD Now $56.99 USD

  • City as Landscape

    A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning

    by Tom Turner ...
    In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Countryside Management

    by Mr Peter Bromley ...
    This management handbook explains the skills and systems needed by all those involved in managing the countryside. It deals with the process of management, national trends, establishing local policies and priorities, implementing schemes, as well as the legislation which surrounds countryside management. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD