Landscape category: 1155 books
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Landscape Projects, 2nd Edition
Stonework, Plantings, Water Features, Carpentry, Fences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Complete step-by-step instructions help you achieve a sustainable, efficient, and attractive yard. The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Landscape Projects is a hardworking, comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and "greening up" your landscape. Inside, you'll find complete directions...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape...
by James Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should...
Landscape dimensions
Reflections and proposals for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
As a key element of individual and social well-being and quality of life, landscape plays an important part in human fulfilment and in reinforcement of European identity. Adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management...
by Sarah Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution that overthrew the parterres, avenues and canals of formal European-style gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century. Thousands of landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often looking so natural that we hardly recognise...
The Living Landscape, Second Edition
An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving...
The Camaro in the Pasture
Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley’s work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J....
by Travis Beck
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
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...
by Mary Palmer Dargan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighborhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other’s well-being.
Lifelong...
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Combine traditional techniques with modern media for more communicative renderings
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design, Second Edition bridges the gap between traditional analog and new digital tools by applying...
by Sue Reed
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America's total energy use and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money time and...
Landscape and Sustainable Development
The French Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Previously published in French by Éditions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable development. While led by French scholars, the research team and geographical scope of the project was international, collaborative and comparative. Using...
by Steven Strom, Kurt Nathan, Jake Woland
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The Leading Guide To Site Design And Engineering— Revised And Updated
Site Engineering for Landscape Architects is the top choice for site engineering, planning, and construction courses as well as for practitioners in the field, with easy-to-understand coverage of the principles and techniques...
Research in Landscape Architecture
Methods and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is...