Landscape category: 1155 books
by Barbara W. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Ground covers are a pretty and practical way to bring diversity, elegance, and durability to open sweeps of lawn. Give your landscape a vibrant new palette that is both sustainable and low-maintenance through plantings of herbs, shrubs, mosses, and more. Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color...
The Essential Ian McHarg
Writings on Design and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2006
The Essential Ian McHarg brings together a series of short essays that reveal the full range of Ian McHarg's thoughts on design and nature. Adapted from the comprehensive book of his work, To Heal the Earth, these carefully selected essays provide an ideal reader for undergraduate and graduate students in planning and landscape architecture.
Best Backyard Gardening Tips And Tricks
This Amazing Handbook Will Let You Learn The Excellent Tips And Tricks On Backyard Landscape Designs, Backyard Accessories, Small Garden Ideas, Barbeque Party Ideas, Children Backyard Party Ideas And More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
When we think of backyard activities, sports often come to mind. While sports are a great way to spend your time outdoors, they are not all that backyard activities include. In fact, while you may not necessarily think so, backyard activities also involve the completion of projects. If...
Designing Urban Agriculture
A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A comprehensive overview of edible landscapes—complete with more than 300 full-color photos and illustrations
Designing Urban Agriculture is about the intersection of ecology, design, and community. Showcasing projects and designers from around the world who are forging new paths to the sustainable...
Place-Keeping
Open Space Management in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping – that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces – from around Europe and the rest of the world. There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and urban design on the creation of high-quality...
Conservation for Cities
How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will...
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning
An International Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective...
Design for Sustainability
A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts...
by CJ Lim, Ed Liu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Modern methods of agriculture have led to cities growing out of control and reducing the available agricultural land, threatening the sustainability of our food system. The previous mutually sustaining relationships of animals, humans and the land have been lost with the progress of industry.
The...
by Ramon Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Do It Yourself Landscaping: Simple Fixes That Will Transform Your Yard
This book covers several different topics including:
Chapter 1: What Is Landscaping Chapter 2: Planning For Desert Landscaping Chapter 3: A Wonderful Backyard Landscaping Idea Chapter 4: Backyard Landscaping...
by Jake Woland
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
A study guide to help you master the principles and practices of site engineering
Whether used in conjunction with the Sixth Edition of Site Engineering for Landscape Architects or on its own, this Workbook is an invaluable learning resource for students and instructors, as well as for professionals...
Planting
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“Indispensable.” —The New York Times Book Review
Piet Oudolf’s gardens—unique combinations of long-lived perennials and woody plants that are rich in texture and sophisticated in color—are breathtaking and have deep emotional resonance. With Planting, designers and home gardeners...
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
Garden History
Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
An updated version of this book is now available as European Gardens (2011), also by Tom Turner. Expanding into other regions are Asian Gardens (2010) and the forthcoming British Gardens, both also by Turner and published by Routledge.
Tom Turner, well-known teacher and writer in landscape...