Landscape category: 1155 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 1984, this book addresses key questions about the pattern of urban development in Southern Europe and the mechanisms employed to control and regulate this development in individual countries.
It examines five countries – Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey – that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into...
The World’s Urban Forests
History, Composition, Design, Function and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. It will ask questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees in urban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities across broad geographical areas known as biomes. Constraints and opportunities...
Creating Child Friendly Cities
New Perspectives and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Therapeutic Landscapes
An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines...
Interpreting Site
Studies in Perception, Representation, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Interpreting Site explains the basic methods architects use to translate what you perceive to represent the complex conditions that physically and mentally "construe" a site, helping to shape the ultimate design. Within each of the four themes---defining site, experiencing site, spatializing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. Our increasing dependence on fossil fuels over the last century has given us unprecedented individual mobility and comfort, but the consequences are clear. Climate change, sprawl,...
Unhealthy Housing
Research, remedies and reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, together with an overview to give an evaluation of the significance of housing on the health of occupiers.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape...
A Guide for the Idealist
Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields, the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices, practice effectively, and find meaning in planning work. Built around...
Shaping Portland
Anatomy of a Healthy City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago. Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City is about the values engendered by the place, and how those values have influenced the growing city. It examines how and why the public realm supports or obstructs...
by CJ Lim
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life. Food City investigates...
Whose Tradition?
Discourses on the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?
Following Nezar AlSayyad’s Prologue, contributors addressing the first theme take examples from...
Cities of Light
Two Centuries of Urban Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting...