Explore one of France’s most rewarding long-distance treks, a route that threads forests, river gorges, hilltop pastures, and the wild plateau country of eastern France.From the wooded hills of the Northern Vosges to the high meadows of the Haut-Jura, the central section of the GR5 offers an unforgettable walking experience over roughly 687 km (427 miles) from Schirmeck to Lac Léman, suitable for moderately experienced hikers seeking both challenge and scenery....

Demands on landscape architecture students’ time are many and varied – when is there a chance to just sketch, and is it worth dedicating your time to the pursuit of drawing? This book shows how in short bursts you can build up your design skills using quick, relaxed sketches, which form the basis for full projects and studio work.This book will provide you with your own image library – sources of inspiration, guidance, and short-cuts to future designs. A variety of paths leading to...

Walk the northern section of the GR5 Trail, a classic long-distance route linking the North Sea to the Alps. This guidebook covers the 1000km (621-mile) stretch of the GR5 from Hoek van Holland to Schirmeck, taking you through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and northeastern France.The route is described north to south in 49 stages, each between 8 and 30km (5–19 miles), allowing walkers to plan daily distances to suit their pace and schedule. For added flexib...

Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Sustainability means more than just saving energy and resources. It requires integrating the landscapes we design with ecological systems. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice.This groundbreaking work explai...

A practical, single-source guide to successful strategies for landscape architecture researchAs the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating, and validating knowledge. Landscape Architecture Research ...

"This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice." — Real SimpleWhether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for specific species and cultivars, on-trend garden des...

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 intercultural exchanges as well as the cultural trans-formation that takes place in urban spaces. In do...

This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives and official histories, it explores the formation of urban identities and constructed images of the city. Topographies of Memories suggests interdisciplinary approaches for creating c...

BIM (Building Information Modelling) is transforming working practices across the built environment sector, as clients, professionals, contractors and manufacturers throughout the supply chain grasp the opportunities that BIM presents. The first book ever to focus on the implementation of BIM processes in landscape and external works, BIM for Landscape will help landscape professionals understand what BIM means for them. This bookis intended to equip landscape practitioners and pr...

"Literature that creates an authentic sense of place can be difficult to find. A writer who can capture the real spirit of a place is even more rare. Deborah Burst is such a writer, and her Spirits of the Bayou does justice to one of America's most historic and hauntingly beautiful settings, South Louisiana." C. E. Richard, author of the book Louisiana, An Illustrated History and the companion documentary Louisiana: A History, produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting.Deborah Burst...

With a glint in his eye, Rob turns and asks me if I want to ‘touch his furry puma’. I begin to feel a little concerned about the days and weeks ahead; we are only hours into the trip and things have already taken a sinister turn. Thankfully it turns out he is referring to the little embossed logo on his new shirt. Fuelled by a degree of mid-life crisis and the need to escape, albeit temporarily, the dull routine of modern life, David and Rob set out to walk from the Atlantic to the Mediter...

Fascination journey though thepresent with the past:- The history of Aleramo andIts legendary ride on theMonferrato land- The landscapes of today, thePlace, the paths.Lilli and her daughter Giusi take part in a friendly contest which recalls legendary Aleramo’s ride. The crew who will buy, along the way (three days), the most original object will receive a plate as prize. Along the road along Acqui , Lilli see a medieval knight who is ridi...