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  • Paesaggi culturali ed ecoturismo

    Cultural landscapes and ecotourism

    Il volume descrive le declinazioni del paesaggio culturale e offre al lettore il sostrato teorico per la comprensione di alcune iniziative internazionali di valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale, come la World Heritage List dell’Unesco e gli itinerari culturali europei del Consiglio d’Europa. Il focus sul Parco Nazionale Marino di Alonissos nelle Sporadi settentrionali e sul percorso del cibo in ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

    Free

  • Cities After Crisis

    Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up

    Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de ... Read more

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  • Il Paesaggio Agrario: dal vincolo alla gestione negoziata

    Il paesaggio agrario è un osservatorio privilegiato delle politiche paesaggistiche attuali, di cui denota limiti e potenzialità. Il regime di tipo vincolistico plasmato dal legislatore vale come presidio per la tutela del territorio, ma può anche ostacolare gli usi agricoli e le trasformazioni per finalità economiche proprie del settore agricolo. Il volume sostiene dunque la necessità di non ... Read more

    26,99 €

  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

    Free

  • Το Μονοπάτι του κήπου

    Το Μονοπάτι του Κήπου είναι ένα έργο μη μυθοπλασίας που εξετάζει την αλληλοσύνδεση της φύσης, της αρχιτεκτονικής τοπίου και της ψυχοθεραπείας, συνδυάζοντας την δυτική επιστημονική έρευνα με τις ανατολικές φιλοσοφικές πρακτικές. Το βιβλίο διερευνά πώς οι κήποι, ιδιαίτερα στις ιαπωνικές και ανατολικές παραδόσεις, προσφέρουν θεραπευτικά οφέλη στο μυαλό και το σώμα, και πώς η δημιουργία ή η ενασχόληση ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Hermes o la modernidad expuesta

    Urbanismos feriales y arquitecturas expositivas en América del Sur y el Caribe entre 1954 y 1960

    Hermes, dios ingenioso, negociante, pacificador y, por tanto, experimentado seductor, representaba los mensajes y las soluciones para el progreso aun en el siglo XX. Este estudio sobre su travesía latinoamericana, sobrevolando São Paulo, Bogotá, Santo Domingo (Ciudad Trujillo), Lima, Caracas y Buenos Aires entre 1954 y 1960, revela algunos caminos trazados por los urbanismos feriales y las ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

    Edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss ...
    Series series Reading the American Landscape
    Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • The Values of Gulangyu World Cultural Heritage

    by Qing Mei ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the core value of Gulangyu’s historical environment, using outstanding universal value and Sino-foreign cultural exchange as the framing aspects, based on the requirements for Gulangyu being recognized as a World Heritage Site. Using the existing historical buildings and sketches as prototypes, the book provides a scholarly discussion on China’s modern urban architecture and the ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Il patrimonio culturale nella scuola dell'autonomia

    Nella società della conoscenza l'istruzione viene oggi pensata e praticata come bene comune e diviene oggetto di preoccupazione e cura del sistema scolastico, ma anche dei molteplici soggetti territoriali, produttivi e culturali, tramite azioni condivise e sinergiche.In base al contesto di riferimento la scuola dell'autonomia, non più chiusa in se stessa in programmi definiti, rigidi, strutturati, ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridges

    The science and art of the world's most inspiring structures

    Bridges touch all our lives - every day we are likely to cross a bridge, or go under one. How many of us stop to consider how the bridge stands up and what sort of people designed and built something so strong? Bridge building is a magnificent example of the practical and every day use of science. However, the story of bridges goes beyond science and technology, and involves issues relating to ... Read more

    13,03 €

  • (Ri)progettare le città

    Le città sono lo specchio dei nostri tempi: caotiche, inquinate, poco attraenti.Ma qual è la città? Come si evolveranno nel prossimo futuro? Come potranno cambiare per vincere le difficili sfide dei prossimi decenni?Il testo descrive i criteri di base per l'analisi del territorio urbano e propone una serie di linee guida per le misure da applicare al progetto per la necessaria trasformazione delle ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architettura e paesaggi della villeggiatura in Italia tra Otto e Novecento

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il volume offre articolati spunti di riflessione sulle trasformazioni urbane poste in essere in Italia per il consumo del loisir e sulle relative architetture nelle diverse tipologie: temi già indagati da altre “storie” o in altri paesi, ma solo di recente all’attenzione della storiografia dell’architettura italiana. ... Read more

    43,99 €

  • Oil Spaces

    Exploring the Global Petroleumscape

    Edited by Carola Hein ...
    Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation ... Read more

    Free

  • On the Roads of Community Landscapes

    The paper text is a conceptual introduction to the "INTERNATIONAL INVENTORY OF COMMUNITY CULTURAL AND BIOCULTURAL LANDSCAPES" ( for the moment, in digital form. The Inventory is an attempt to identify rural, pasture, forestry and coastal community spaces, still existing and observable in the landscape and identity dimension as stratified over the millennia, also in relation to the presence of ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Guidebook Gabions

    This small guide for gabions is intended to help you choose the right gabions and materials to suit your needs and give you important tips if you want to build your gabions yourself. ... Read more

    4,55 €

  • Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement

    “The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful AmericaIn Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during this iconic movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from ... Read more

    25,99 €

  • Il paesaggio

    Il paesaggio e le sue modificazioni (Come era il paesaggio della bassa Pianura Padana, Semantica del paesaggio, La legge e il paesaggio); Le teorie del paesaggio (Dal giardino al paesaggio, Alcune teorie del paesaggio, Due paesaggisti a confronto: Emilio Sereni ed Eugenio Turri). ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Progetti di paesaggio per i luoghi rifiutati

    by AA. VV. ...
    Gli autori di questa ricerca, finanziata dal MIUR nel quadro di un'intensa attenzione rivolta al paesaggio dalla comunità scientifica, hanno voluto affrontare uno dei più centrali e dibattuti temi posto in evidenza dalla Convenzione Europea del Paesaggio: la necessità che l'attenzione paesaggistica non sia riservata, com'è accaduto fino ad oggi, solo alle aree di particolare valore e interesse, ma ... Read more

    34,99 €

  • PROFUMO DI LEGGENDA Sceneggiatura

    Lilli e Giusy: una madre e una figlia, dal carattere ancora immaturo e in formazione, hanno un rapporto difficile. Partecipano insieme ad un percorso in automobile che rievoca la cavalcata del Marchese Aleramo a cui nel X sec. era stata promessa dall’Imperatore tutta la terra che sarebbe riuscito a cavalcare in tre giorni e tre notti.Altri personaggi, tra cui una coppia di omosessuali dal ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

    by Simon Bell ...
    Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes – climatic, geological, ecological and cultural – over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge – ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of ... Read more

    70,82 €

  • Territorial Governance across Europe

    Pathways, Practices and Prospects

    Edited by Peter Schmitt, Lisa Van Well ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. A unique series of ten case studies across Europe, from neighbourhood planning in North Shields in the North East of England to climate ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires

    Encounters and Confluences

    Edited by Mohammad Gharipour ...
    The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of the information sharing that took place among Europeans and Islamic empires in Turkey, Persia, ... Read more

    82,46 €

  • Sustainability in Transition

    Principles for Developing Solutions

    Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner. The textbook is structured as a learning-centered approach to walk students through the process of linking sustainable behavior and decision-making to green innovation systems and triple-bottom-line economic development ... Read more

    57,39 €