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Globalities eBook Series

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  • Landscape and History since 1500

    by Ian D. Whyte ...
    Series series Globalities
    Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many ... Read more

    R545,20

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  • Entourage 5th Edition

    A Tracing File and Color Sourcebook

    by Ernest Burden ...
    The definitive tracing file for design professionals--updated and expandedPacked with hundreds of traceable drawings and more than 1000 photographic images, Entourage, Fifth Edition, provides a quick and easy way to create visually persuasive architectural presentations. This fully revised volume offers a vast assortment of contemporary entourage figures that allows architects, commercial artists, ... Read more

    R894,46

  • The Arts and Crafts Garden

    by Sarah Rutherford ...
    Series Book 771 - Shire Library
    A brief illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts Garden.Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, the Arts and Crafts movement's values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty also produced influential gardens all over Britain.This classic Shire Library guide explores:- A rich history: chart the rise of Arts and Crafts gardens as they became a worldwide phenomenon ... Read more

    R173,41

  • Humphry Repton

    by Laura Mayer ...
    Series Book 768 - Shire Library
    Humphry Repton (1752–1818) ambitiously styled himself Capability Brown's successor: the century's next great improver of landed property. With his rare combinations of skills – he was a talented topographical sketcher with an excellent knowledge of farming – over thirty years Repton amassed an incredible four hundred commissions, ingratiating himself with the aristocracy and raising the status of ... Read more

    R168,35

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    R1 616,08

  • Lighthouses

    by Victoria Charles ...
    The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports.This beacon of maritime signalisation has guided sailors since antiquity.The first known lighthouse appeared on the island of Pharos, and was the remarkable Lighthouse of Alexandria; however, it seems that volcanoes like Stromboli and its frequent eruptions were possibly at the origin of this invention, as the fires ... Read more

    R229,30 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Planning Practitioner

    by Jerry Weitz ...
    If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them – even if the planner pays? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing planners, potential ethics violations abound, and the eye of public scrutiny never blinks. Planners need a guide, ... Read more

    Was R795,09 Now R692,46

  • Threatened Landscapes

    Conserving Cultural Environments

    Edited by Bryn Green ...
    Few, if any, environments are free of human intervention. Often this generates ecosystems which are rich in biodiversity, historical interest, recreational opportunity and scenic beauty just as worthy of conservation as the more natural ecosystems on which protection programmes have been almost exclusively focussed. These 'cultural landscapes', ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and ... Read more

    R1 898,30

  • 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

    R1 538,69

  • Landscape Analysis

    Investigating the potentials of space and place

    by Per Stahlschmidt, Simon Swaffield, Jorgen Primdahl, Vibeke Nellemann ...
    A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality. Landscape Analysis provides an introduction to the field both in theory and in practice. A wide range of methods and techniques for landscape analysis is illustrated by urban and rural ... Read more

    R1 487,80

  • Landscapes at Risk?

    The Future for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales

    by Edward Holdaway, Gerald Smart ...
    Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) together with National Parks are the highest quality landscapes in England and Wales, and have been designated to conserve that quality. AONBs have always been regarded as 'second' to national parks in terms of the legislation and resources provided by the nation to look after them. At the turn of the century they are at a cross-roads - there are many ... Read more

    R1 205,58

  • Mainstreaming Landscape through the European Landscape Convention

    Edited by Karsten Jorgensen, Morten Clemetsen, Tim Richardson, Anne-Karine Thoren ...
    The European Landscape Convention has introduced a Europe-wide concept of protection, management and planning of all landscapes – not just the outstanding ones. This book reflects on the background to the establishment of the convention, takes a critical look at examples and experiences of its implementation, and discusses future developments for the convention and the management of landscapes in ... Read more

    R1 616,08