Landscape category: 1155 books
Constructing Metropolitan Space
Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale...
World Cities and Urban Form
Fragmented, Polycentric, Sustainable?
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This book presents new research and theory at the regional scale showing the forms metropolitan regions might take to achieve sustainability. At the city scale the book presents case studies based on the latest research and practice from Europe, Asia and North America, showing how both planning and...
Making Places for People
12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards **
Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human...
The Planners Guide to CommunityViz
The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
What does the future look like? Planners wrestle with this question daily as they strive to bring a community's vision of itself to life, in all its complexity. Here is an authoritative and accessible guide to a tool that combines 3-D visualization, data analysis and scenario building to let planners...
Sustainable Heritage
Merging Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable-design...
Designing the Compassionate City
Creating Places Where People Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people. It suggests that whether we thrive or decline—as individuals or as a community—is dependent on our ability to fulfil the full spectrum of our...
by Jeff Ausmus
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This introductory edition is part one in a series about growing wildflowers native to a temperate climate. This book will serve as a general overview to wild flowers, and the other books in the series will treat how you can create specialized gardens in order to grow virtually any wildflowers you want, as well as learn how to identify common non-wild flowers (usually called ‘weeds’).
by Misa Izuhara
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Housing, Care and Inheritance draws on the author’s long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, a phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies. If an adult child provides care for their elderly parent, should that person be rewarded? If so, should they...
A New Way of Living
Georgian Town Planning in the Highlands & Islands
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750. It pulls together the various strands that influenced the development of the North West Highlands after the disastrous risings and charts the government-backed attempts at establishing...
Design Governance
The CABE Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a decade-long, globally unique experiment in...
by Jennifer L. Kent, Susan Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Planning Australia’s Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health. A burgeoning body of empirical research demonstrates the ways urban structure and governance influences human health—and Australia is playing a pivotal...
Rich Pictures
Encouraging Resilient Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared...
Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018
On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland...
by Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters.
Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches....