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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

    331,40 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

    199,59 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

    659,01 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

    113,53 kr

  • City-making, Space and Spirituality

    A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa

    Serie serien Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa’s post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped by competing value frameworks.The first part of the book invites planners, city-makers, and ordinary ... Les mer

    549,09 kr

  • Peatlands

    Ecology, Conservation and Heritage

    Serie serien Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.Peat is formed when vegetation partially decays in a waterlogged environment and occurs extensively throughout both temperate and tropical regions. Interest in ... Les mer

    549,09 kr

  • Die Grüne Stadt

    Stadtnatur als Ideal, Leistungsträger und Konzept für Stadtgestaltung

    Serie serien Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
    Dieses Lehrbuch zur Grünen Stadt untersucht Stadtnatur als Ideal, Leistungsträger und Konzept für Stadtgestaltung. Es beantwortet wichtige aktuelle Fragen, die sich zu den ökologischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, zur Entwicklung und Struktur und zum ökologischen Leistungsvermögen von Stadtnatur weltweit stellen. Das Buch erklärt, was Stadtnatur ist, wie sie entstand und wie sie sich im Kontext zu ... Les mer

    315,35 kr

  • The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design

    Redigert av Chris Brisbin, Myra Thiessen ...
    The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design. Professional criticism is a vital part of understanding the cultural significance of designed objects and environments that we engage with on a daily basis, yet there is evidence to show ... Les mer

    633,16 kr

  • Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability

    Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into policy and legislation. The problems of such measurement and evaluation are presented by the authors ... Les mer

    463,87 kr

  • The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

    av Tim Waterman ...
    Serie serien Fundamentals
    From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of today's most crucial issues and this book provides an introduction to the key elements of this broad field.The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture explains the process of designing for sites, calling upon historical precedent and evolving philosophies to discuss how a project moves from concept to ... Les mer

    383,01 kr

  • Glasshouse Greenhouse

    Haarkon's world tour of amazing botanical spaces

    Glasshouse Greenhouse fuses together cultures and countries under one glass roof. In their debut book, photographers India Hobson and Magnus Edmondson take you on a worldwide journey through their favourite botanical spaces.The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford’s botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the ... Les mer

    217,26 kr

  • Active Landscape Photography

    Methods for Investigation

    av Anne Godfrey ...
    Serie serien Active Landscape Photography
    How can photography be transformed into an active process of investigation for landscape architecture and environmental design? The second book in Godfrey’s series, Active Landscape Photography,presents engaged photographic methods that turn photography into a rigorous, thoughtful endeavor for the research, planning and design of landscape places.Photography is the most ubiquitous and important ... Les mer

    503,92 kr

  • Dungeness

    Coastal Architecture

    The Kent coastal strip of Dungeness is a unique environment. Harshly vulnerable to the elements yet protected from inland development, it has enticed many architects, artists, photographers and creative thinkers, including of course renowned artist and film-maker Derek Jarman.Its exposed position makes it an extreme place – a viewing station for the shifting sea, the passing clouds and the ... Les mer

    288,21 kr

  • The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

    Town Planning in Modern Society

    av Alison Ravetz ...
    Serie serien Routledge Revivals
    Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation.By the 1986, when this ... Les mer

    369,18 kr

  • Public Space and Relational Perspectives

    New Challenges for Architecture and Planning

    Serie serien Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going dynamics between social actors, their cultures, and struggles. The key role of space in enabling ... Les mer

    738,46 kr

  • The War on Terror and the Normalisation of Urban Security

    av Jon Coaffee ...
    Serie serien Interventions
    This book explores the processes by which, in the 20 years after 9/11, the practices of urban security and counter-terrorism have impacted the everyday experiences of the Western city. Highlighting the localised urban responses to new security challenges, it reflects critically upon the historical trajectory of techniques of territorialisation and physical protection, urban surveillance and the ... Les mer

    568,02 kr

  • Planning Metropolitan Australia

    Serie serien Planning, History and Environment Series
    Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities. The development and application of effective urban policy at a regional scale is a significant global challenge given the complexities of ... Les mer

    568,02 kr

  • New Urbanism and American Planning

    The Conflict of Cultures

    av Emily Talen ...
    Serie serien Planning, History and Environment Series
    New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms ‘cultures’: incrementalism, plan-making, planned ... Les mer

    684,86 kr

  • The Art of Setting Stones

    & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

    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 ... Les mer

    94,21 kr

  • Regent Park Redux

    Reinventing Public Housing in Canada

    Serie serien RTPI Library Series
    Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto’s Regent Park has experienced common large-scale public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old buildings and scattering inhabitants, the city’s housing authority came up with a plan for radical transformation.In partnership with a private ... Les mer

    568,02 kr

  • Armonia del disincanto

    Lo sguardo appassionato e insieme disincantato di un violinista partenopeo è il filo rosso che unisce i nodi della sua esistenza. La magia di Budapest a far da sfondo al naufragio delle proprie illusioni; eppure, proprio la capacità di reagire ad ogni sconfitta, farà di lui una sorta di abile surfista, capace di cavalcare le onde più imponenti. In questo eterno ricominciare si cela, forse, l ... Les mer

    47,25 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Designing the Reclaimed Landscape

    Redigert av Alan Berger ...
    The first practical yet in-depth exploration of how to reclaim the post-industrial landscape, this volume includes excellent case studies by practitioners and policy makers from around the US, giving first rate practical examples.The book addresses new thinking about landscape, which applies new techniques to the task of transforming outdated and disused post-extraction landscapes through design. ... Les mer

    2 003,26 kr

  • Gärten des Jahres 2024

    Die 50 schönsten Privatgärten 2024

    ERLEBEN SIE DIE FASZINIERENDE WELT DER PREISGEKRÖNTEN PRIVATGÄRTEN! GÄRTEN DES JAHRES präsentiert auch in diesem Jahr stolz die 50 herausragendsten Gärten der Landschaftsarchitekt:innen, Gartengestalter:innen sowie Garten- und Landschaftsbauer:innen – sorgfältig ausgewählt von einer hochkarätigen Fachjury. Dieses Callwey Buch ist eine Hommage an die Kreativität privater Gärten, die beeindrucken. ... Les mer

    469,00 kr

  • Measuring Placemaking Impacts

    A Handbook for Project Evaluation

    Placemaking is a popular approach to creating or fostering appealing, livable communities. This book addresses the critical gap in placemaking evaluation by providing methodologies and practical tools for developing holistic and consistent approaches to measuring the impacts of placemaking projects. The authors integrate history and theory of placemaking and evaluation with the practice of ... Les mer

    516,84 kr

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