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  • Artful Rainwater Design

    Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater

    by Stuart Echols, Eliza Pennypacker ...
    Stormwater management as art? Absolutely. Rain is a resource that should be valued and celebrated, not merely treated as an urban design problem—and yet, traditional stormwater treatment methods often range from ugly to forgettable. Artful Rainwater Design shows that it's possible to effectively manage runoff while also creating inviting, attractive landscapes.This beautifully illustrated, ... Read more

    $38.89 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

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building a Low Impact Roundhouse

    by Tony Wrench ...
    Tony covers the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of lifting the living roof, infilling the walls. laying out rooms and adding renewable, autonomous technology. He offers advice on roofs, floors, walls, compost toilets, wood stoves, kitchens, windows and on planning permissions. There are photographs of the dwelling and illustrations from the construction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Conservation for Cities

    How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure

    by Robert I. McDonald ...
    It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will require a new approach to infrastructure if we're going to be successful. Yet guidance on how to plan ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • Precedents in Zero-Energy Design

    Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon

    by Michael Zaretsky ...
    ‘Michael Zaretsky’s Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book … it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology – and renewable energy systems alone can’t solve the problems we face’ – John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of VirginiaThe world is currently facing an environmental crisis and as anyone ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Architecture and Agriculture

    A Rural Design Guide

    by Dewey Thorbeck ...
    Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place. Following on from the author’s first book Rural Design, the book discusses in detail the buildings that humans construct in support of agriculture. By examining case studies from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability

    Creating Positive Change Through Design

    by Mr Joshua Zeunert ...
    Series series Required Reading Range
    Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017Winner of the AILA VIC Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017Highly Commended (Communication and Presentation) Landscape Institute Awards 2018Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd Edition

    by Congress for the New Urbanism, Emily Talen ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM--FULLY REVISEDThe Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities, and healthier living conditions. Thoroughly updated to cover the latest environmental, economic, and social implications of urban design, Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The American City: What Works, What Doesn't

    by Alexander Garvin ...
    The definitive guide to urban planning and design--completely updated and now in full colorIn the Third Edition of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, award-winning city planner and renowned urban scholar Alexander Garvin examines more than 350 programs and projects that have been implemented nationwide in 150 cities and suburbs, evaluates their successes and failures, and offers relevant ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic

    A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

    by Jana VanderGoot ...
    Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Wild By Design

    Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes

    by Margie Ruddick ...
    Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD