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Principles of Ecological Landscape Design

de Travis Beck ...

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 ... Leer más

$32.39 USD

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
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Parks and Recreation System Planning

A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities

de David Barth ...

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks ... Leer más

$29.59 USD

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks
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Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature

de Karen Trapenberg Frick ...

Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day.The bridge ... Leer más

$65.99 USD

Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day.The bridge
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Construction for Landscape Architecture

de Robert Holden, Jamie Liversedge ...

Series series Portfolio Skills
Construction for Landscape Architecture covers all aspects of landscape construction, giving a good understanding of building materials and assembly. It is heavily illustrated with specially commissioned, detailed construction drawings and has a strong emphasis on sustainability and good practice. At the end of the book there is an extensive glossary and an appendix of technical information. ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

Construction for Landscape Architecture covers all aspects of landscape construction, giving a good understanding of building materials and assembly. It is heavily illustrated with specially commissioned, detailed construction drawings and has a strong emphasis on sustainability and good practice. At the end of the book there is an extensive glossary and an appendix of technical information.
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Watercolor Artist's Index of the Urban Landscape

A Field Trip of Features and How to Paint Them

de Richard Taylor ...

A brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the urban landscape watercolor artistintroductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, perspective, paint effects, light, and shadearranged by urban location and then by type of feature for quick reference in the field or home studioprovides step-by-step techniques to capture the majesty, charm, or granular detail of a chosen ... Leer más

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A brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the urban landscape watercolor artistintroductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, perspective, paint effects, light, and shadearranged by urban location and then by type of feature for quick reference in the field or home studioprovides step-by-step techniques to capture the majesty, charm, or granular detail of a chosen
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Watercolor Artist's Index of the Natural Landscape

A Field Trip of Features and How to Paint Them

de Johannes Vloothuis ...

A brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the nature and landscape watercolor artistintroductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, techniques, and color mixingarranged by terrain location and then by type of feature for quick reference in the field or home studioprovides step-by-step techniques to capture the majesty, charm, or granular detail of a chosen subject: ... Leer más

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A brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the nature and landscape watercolor artistintroductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, techniques, and color mixingarranged by terrain location and then by type of feature for quick reference in the field or home studioprovides step-by-step techniques to capture the majesty, charm, or granular detail of a chosen subject:
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Designing the Sustainable Site, Enhanced Edition

Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes

de Heather L. Venhaus ...

The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable residential landscapes and small-scale sitesEnhanced with three video walk-throughs of case studies, Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for Small-Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes Enhanced eBook gives site designers and landscape architects the tools and information they need to become a driving force in the ... Leer más

$54.99 USD

The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable residential landscapes and small-scale sitesEnhanced with three video walk-throughs of case studies, Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for Small-Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes Enhanced eBook gives site designers and landscape architects the tools and information they need to become a driving force in the
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Urban Design Futures

Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Housing and Social Policy

Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

Edición de Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...

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 ... Leer más

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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
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Housing and Social Transition in Japan

Edición de Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald ...

Series series Housing and Society Series
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world.While Japan ... Leer más

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Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world.While Japan
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Planning for Crime Prevention

A Transatlantic Perspective

de Ted Kitchen, Richard H Schneider ...

Series series RTPI Library Series
Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and ... Leer más

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Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and
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Urban and Regional Technology Planning

Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy

de Kenneth E. Corey, Mark Wilson ...

Series series Networked Cities Series
Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.Designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways of cities, technologies, and multiple forms of ... Leer más

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Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.Designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways of cities, technologies, and multiple forms of
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Welcome to Your World

How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

de Sarah Williams Goldhagen ...

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from
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Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

de Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer ...

Series series 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Computer Aided Policy Making

de Ray Wyatt ...

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare, Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software, ... Leer más

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This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare, Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software,
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Nature-Friendly Communities

Habitat Protection And Land Use Planning

de Chris Duerksen, Cara Snyder, Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC ...

Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain the most effective steps that communities can take to protect nature.The book: documents the broad ... Leer más

$48.29 USD

Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain the most effective steps that communities can take to protect nature.The book: documents the broad
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The Planning Polity

Planning, Government and the Policy Process

de Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...

Series series RTPI Library Series
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the ... Leer más

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Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the
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The Frightened Land

Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century

de Jennifer Beningfield ...

An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government and ... Leer más

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An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government and
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Landscape Graphics

Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces

de Grant Reid ...

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand ... Leer más

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Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand
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Planting in a Post-Wild World

Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

de Thomas Rainer, Claudia West ...

This post-wild landscape guide is an "optimistic call to action" to help gardeners create a harmonious environment by incoporating plant communities ( Chicago Tribune).Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, ... Leer más

$20.19 USD

This post-wild landscape guide is an "optimistic call to action" to help gardeners create a harmonious environment by incoporating plant communities ( Chicago Tribune).Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse,
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Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)

Edición de Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev, Carola S. Neugebauer ...

Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, ... Leer más

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Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities,
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A Clearing In The Distance

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

de Witold Rybczynski ...

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus,
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Feng Shui: Seeing Is Believing

Essential Geomancy for Beginners and Skeptics

de Jampa Ludrup ...

In this pithy and practical handbook, Ven. Jampa Ludrup lays out the fundamentals of feng shui without any of the opaque mysticism that sometimes clouds the practice. "The aim of this book," he writes, "is to help you have more happiness in your life." Through his easy-to-understand instructions, diagrams, and photos, Ludrup illustrates how simple alterations to the layout of your home can vastly ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

In this pithy and practical handbook, Ven. Jampa Ludrup lays out the fundamentals of feng shui without any of the opaque mysticism that sometimes clouds the practice. "The aim of this book," he writes, "is to help you have more happiness in your life." Through his easy-to-understand instructions, diagrams, and photos, Ludrup illustrates how simple alterations to the layout of your home can vastly
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Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

Edición de Rebecca Krinke ...

Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers ... Leer más

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Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers
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