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Greatest Tips On Lawn Care
The Superb Handbook On Lawn Care Tips That Will Let You Learn How To Take Care Of Your Lawn, Grass Varieties, Weeds Control, Best Lawn Fertilizer And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Men have had fights over it. It’s a battle of suburbia that has yet to be won. They all compete for the coveted prize with the best machines made by man. Lawn care has actually become a competition these days. Do you want a lawn to make your neighbors jealous for?
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by William Dangar
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
William Dangar's Garden is a journey through a series of twenty-one inspiring, emotive and lyrical gardens. Each is photographed at its optimum moment - not when newly planted, but when nature has reasserted itself and there is a certain expressiveness, a sense of wildness, breaking through the original...
Gardener‘s Guide to Gaillardia, the Blanket Flower
Gardener’s Guide to the Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden, #5
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener*‘s Guide to Blanket Flower* relates how to grow this beautiful perennial flower. From seed to division, learn how to propagate this wonderful perennial plant.
Blanket Flower has many varieties available. You will find the most readily obtainable...
by G. Edwin Varner
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
No matter how many times you see them, you can not express a sudden delightful shout of "Oh! Look at the deer!" It's what they do when not viewed that can later make you angrily shout "Aghhh! Look what those [expletive deleted] deer did to my garden!"
What deer resistant...
by Story Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Finally, a comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America: lack of money. Story Clark dispels the myths...
Lost in the Transit Desert
Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence...
Learning from the Japanese City
Looking East in Urban Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of the...
The Urban Fix
Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme local heat. The Urban Fix addresses how urban design, planning and policies can counter the threats...
by Gordon Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of...
by Luigi Mazza
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Planning is undergoing a period of profound change and risks losing meaning and authority by becoming merely a tool for financial speculation and generating capital. Planning and Citizenship seeks to rediscover planning’s technical and theoretical roots by reconstructing the memory of planning through...
by Daniel Roehr, Elizabeth Fassman-Beck
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches. Living roofs present an opportunity to compliment ground-level storm water control measures, contributing to a holistic,...
Planning Singapore
The Experimental City
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become ‘a great commercial emporium and fulcrum’. But by the time independence was achieved in 1965, the city faced daunting problems of housing shortage, slums and high unemployment....
Heat Islands
Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and...
by Gilles Clément
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2017
La historia del jardín ha estado tradicionalmente marcada por un discurso basado en el orden visual y el control que ejerce el hombre sobre las especies vegetales. En este célebre ensayo, Gilles Clément se aleja de forma radical de este enfoque y aporta una de las reflexiones contemporáneas sobre...