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  • Nature by Design

    The Practice of Biophilic Design

    Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and wellbeing. Given the pace and scale of construction today with its adversarial, dominative relationship with nature, the integration of nature with ... Les mer

    324,19 kr

  • The Hermit in the Garden

    From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

    Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many ... Les mer

    111,06 kr

  • The Pedestrian and the City

    The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of ... Les mer

    671,29 kr

  • Art history

    A critical introduction to its methods

    Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying ... Les mer

    195,29 kr

  • Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Design for Sustainable Cities

    Redigert av Keitaro Ito ...
    Serie serien Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions. It provides an interesting meeting point between Asian, European and North America specialists (researchers, planners, landscape architects) studying urban biodiversity; urban biodiversity and green space; relations between people and biodiversity. The most important feature of this book is the unique point of view ... Les mer

    1 186,94 kr

  • Marrakesh and the Mountains

    Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib

    Serie serien Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies
    Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city’s surrounding landscape ... Les mer

    818,51 kr

  • Learning from Bryant Park

    Revitalizing Cities, Towns, and Public Spaces

    By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops, and muggers. But in 1979, civic leaders developed a long-term vision for revitalizing one especially blighted block, Bryant Park. The reopening of the park in the 1990s helped inject new vitality into midtown Manhattan and served as a model for many ... Les mer

    235,79 kr

  • A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes

    Serie serien Routledge Environmental History
    This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers, graphics, and computer models, have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness.Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, this book combines fiction, history, and science, to discuss past, present, and ... Les mer

    Gratis

  • Landscape mosaics

    Thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention

    av Collective ...
    Landscape protection, management and planning entail rights and responsibilities for everyone.The Council of Europe Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns ... Les mer

    422,62 kr

  • Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge

    av Rob Roggema ...
    Serie serien Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence or shifting ecozones. However, the role spatial design and planning can play in adapting to climate ... Les mer

    971,12 kr

  • Idée d'aménagement de piscine

    Comment faire...

    av Owen Jones ...
    Serie serien Comment faire...
    Description du livre: J'espère que vous trouverez les informations utiles, utiles et profitables. Les informations contenues dans ce livre électronique sur la façon de tirer le meilleur parti de toutes les idées que vous pouvez avoir au sujet d'une piscine domestique sont organisées en 17 chapitres d'environ 500 à 600 mots chacun.J'espère qu'elles intéresseront ceux qui souhaitent créer une ... Les mer

    55,48 kr

  • British Planning Policy in Transition

    Planning in the 1990s

    First Published in 1995. This book aims to consider the statutory planning policy system in Britain at the present time (1995) and predominantly takes as a starting point the development of the current processes in the period since 1989–90. The choice of time period for the study is deliberate and has been governed by two main issues. First, it coincides with the publication in 1989 of a ... Les mer

    459,92 kr

  • Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans

    Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Serie serien Ancient Society and History
    How did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today?In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on ... Les mer

    314,46 kr

  • Sustainable Solar Housing

    Volume 1 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

    Redigert av Maria Wall, Robert S Hastings ...
    This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control). Energy and life-cycle impacts are considered as crucial factors ... Les mer

    932,40 kr

  • Building Communities (Routledge Revivals)

    The Co-operative Way

    Serie serien Routledge Revivals
    Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy.Before the First World War, co-operative housing was poised to become a potent force in government policy, but instead ... Les mer

    546,96 kr

  • Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

    The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

    Serie serien Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new ... Les mer

    Gratis

  • Designing the Sustainable Site

    Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes

    The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable residential landscapes and small-scale sites"Going green" is no longer a choice; it's a necessity. Developed landscapes have played a significant role in exacerbating the environmental and social problems that threaten humanity; however, they can also be part of the solution. Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for ... Les mer

    574,39 kr

  • L'Italia è bella dentro

    Storie di resilienza, innovazione e ritorno nelle aree interne

    Serie serien Saggio
    Questo libro racconta l’Italia del “margine” e spiega come restituire valore ai territori e alle comunità. Le storie del ritorno e le iniziative contro l’abbandono e le disuguaglianze territoriali.La favola vera di un Paese inaspettato: è l’Italia interna, lontana dalla grande città; marginale, spesso fragile ma allo stesso tempo sorprendentemente viva e innovativa, che trova risorse dove in ... Les mer

    157,37 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Foundations of Landscape Architecture

    Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design

    A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural designLandscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment. Foundations of Landscape Architecture introduces the foundational concepts needed to effectively ... Les mer

    534,99 kr

  • A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Redigert av Jennifer Milam ...
    Serie serien The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800,a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. Foreign and exotic plants become objects of ... Les mer

    841,31 kr

  • Across the Open Field

    Essays Drawn from English Landscapes

    av Laurie Olin ...
    Serie serien Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. ... Les mer

    662,00 kr

  • Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden

    av Yigang Peng ...
    Oversatt av Huaiyun Kou, Ron Henderson ...
    Serie serien Social Sciences (R0)
    Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens. It is a richly illustrated resource for historians, theorists, garden designers, landscape architects, architects and anyone interested in the design of these world renowned gardens with 106 pages of hand-drawn sketches by the author that vividly ... Les mer

    1 618,60 kr

  • Urban Blue Spaces

    Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being

    This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities ... Les mer

    Gratis

  • New Approaches to Spatial Planning and Design

    Planning, Design, Applications

    Redigert av Murat Özyavuz ...
    One of the main objectives of planning and design is the reflection of the works to the space. Therefore, the starting point of this book is to reveal the research conducted by different professions in the field of spatial planning and design. For this purpose, original researches on direct application and land were included. Planning and design studies need co-operation between professions in ... Les mer

    837,33 kr