Landscape category: 1155 books
Olympic Cities
City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews...
Strategic Spatial Projects
Catalysts for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative...
Defining the Urban
Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
What is "urban"? How can it be described and contextualised? How is it used in theory and practice?
Urban processes feature in key international policy and practice discourses. They are at the core of research agendas across traditional academic disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary...
City Unsilenced
Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move...
by Alberto Pian
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Una città e un tema: "Lights & Shadows". Non solo un tema letterario ma anche simbolico, come si vedrà dalle immagini proposte. Un'immagine da sola non esprime una narrazione, ma diverse immagini accostate fra loro si, perché il "lettore" può immaginare un filo che le leghi....
by Rosario Di Petta
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Lo sguardo appassionato e insieme disincantato di un violinista partenopeo è il filo rosso che unisce i nodi della sua esistenza. La magia di Budapest a far da sfondo al naufragio delle proprie illusioni; eppure, proprio la capacità di reagire ad ogni sconfitta, farà di lui una sorta di abile surfista,...
Housing Transformations
Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating.
This groundbreaking...
Women and Housing
An International Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities...
by Margaret Willes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Rural Change and Planning
England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy. It also provides a structural integration for the many diverse themes which must be interwoven in order to understand current conditions in the countryside.
The Language of Fruit
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range of available fruit varieties, and the transformation...
Spaces in Translation
Japanese Gardens and the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka—or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, São Paulo, or Singapore. We often view these gardens as representative of the essence of Japanese culture. Christian Tagsold argues, however,...
Rationality and the Environment
Decision-making in Environmental Politics and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision-making processes. The result is that within these essentially rational, political assessment frameworks, experts are creating and applying scientific knowledge for decision and management...
by Elizabeth McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands...