Landscape category: 1155 books
The Design Dimension of Planning
Theory, content and best practice for design policies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book examines the design policies in current development plans. With design quality of growing importance to the public, consumers, developers and their clients, and high on the Secretary of State's agenda, this book makes an important practical contribution to improving design control. With...
Urban Smellscapes
Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How...
Sustainability Assessment
Pluralism, practice and progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and clarification of the value-laden...
Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities
Practices, Flows, Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities looks at the different experiences of networked urban mobilities. While the focus in the first book is on conceptual and theory-driven perspective, this second volume emphasizes the empirical investigation of networked urban mobilities. This book is a resource...
Gardener's Guide To The Monarda
Gardener’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #18
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The unique, lavender flowers of native perennial Bee Balm attract a multitude of butterflies, moths and bees to feed on its nutritious nectar. Monarda, also known as Bee Balm, is a wonderful addition to the perennial full sun garden.
Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener‘s Guide...
Gardener's Guide To The Perennial Meadow Phlox
Abe’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #20
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
With its bright, eye popping flowers; native perennial meadow phlox brightens the perennial flower garden in mid-summer. The flowers on this pretty, native full sun perennial appear in June and last well into July.
Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener's Guide to the Perennial Meadow...
Gardener's Guide to the Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Gardener’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #16
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Many native American wildflowers have crossed the line into our gardens and the native perennial Lanceleaf Coreopsis joins this throng. Tough, adaptable and beautiful the Lanceleaf Coreopsis embodies the qualities that allow it to thrive in almost any full sun flower garden condition.
Written...
Gardener’s Guide To The Peony
Gardener’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #17
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The peony is one of the most beloved of the spring blooming full sun perennial flowers. The bold, magnificent blossoms enliven the late spring perennial garden.
Gardener’s Guide to the Peony contains all the information you need to grow this full sun perennial plant. You will find propagation,...
Gardener’s Guide To The Butterfly Bush
Abe’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #7
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Buddleia, or Butterfly Bush, can be the finest addition to the full sun perennial flower garden a gardener can choose. Buddleia davidii not only boasts beautiful flowers, the flowers can attract a multitude of butterflies and moths to the flower garden. Gardeners can use the Gardener’s Guide To...
Look Up!
Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Look Up! Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window is a collection of uplifting yet scientifically-informed nature essays about experiencing nature in an affordable, accessible way. It highlights simple, practical ways to tune in to birds, nature, light, peace and weather – often...
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3
The Toolkit for Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to...
by Ya Ping Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development. This new book examines the poverty problem in relation to housing and social changes in large inland cities, and assesses the effectiveness...
Unfare Solutions
Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs’s...