Landscape category: 1155 books
Dating Buildings and Landscapes with Tree-Ring Analysis
An Introduction with Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book presents guidance, theory, methodologies, and case studies for analyzing tree rings to accurately date and interpret historic buildings and landscapes.
Written by two long-time practitioners in the field of dendrochronology, the research is grounded in the fieldwork data of approximately...
Arts and Community Change
Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy...
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities
Theories, Concepts, Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies, and the politics of mobility. The book introduces the concept of networked urban mobilities and lays out a research agenda...
Implementing Sustainability
The New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently.
This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners...
Villa Savorelli a Sutri
Storia Architettura Paesaggio
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Villa Savorelli a Sutri è l'esito monumentale di secoli di storia che, dal Rinascimento al Barocco, all'età Romantica, hanno plasmato architettura e natura in un insieme suggestivo e monumentale, tra i più rilevanti tra le ville storiche della Tuscia viterbese. Attraverso una ricerca attenta su...
Atmosphere/Atmospheres
Testing a new paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
What is an “Atmosphere”? As part of the book series “Atmospheric Spaces”, this volume analyses a new phenomenological and aesthetic paradigm based on the notion of the “Atmosphere”, conceived as a feeling spread out into the external space rather than as a private mood. The idea of “Atmosphere”...
Agriculture et paysage
Aménager autrement les territoires ruraux
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2014
L'intérêt croissant porté aux paysages constitue une nouvelle avenue pour le développement des territoires ruraux. Largement créés par l’agriculture, les paysages ruraux sont cependant marqués par une uniformisation, souvent interprétée comme une dégradation. Comment aider à façonner...
Les jardins, sciences et techniques
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte des jardins, sciences et techniques avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Par essence, le jardin tient à la fois de la nature et de l'artifice. Dualité fondamentale qui implique, entre autres, que cette forme très spécifique de création mobilise aussi bien un ensemble...
Urban Structure Matters
Residential Location, Car Dependence and Travel Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Going beyond previous investigations into urban land use and travel, Petter Næss presents new research from Denmark on residential location and travel to show how and why urban spatial structures affect people's travel behaviour.
In a comprehensive case study of the Copenhagen metropolitan...
Doing Research in Urban and Regional Planning
Lessons in Practical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Doing Research in Urban and Regional Planning provides a basic introduction to methodology and methods in planning research. It brings together the methods most commonly used in planning, explaining their key applications and basic protocols. It addresses the unique needs of planners by dealing with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
After decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. Long-standing truths are increasingly questioned as a confluence of developments affects lighting itself and the way it is viewed. Light has become an integral element of place-making and energy-saving...
Controlling Development
Certainty, Discretion And Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Native Texas Plants
Landscaping Region by Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
An indispensable guide with 21 landscaping design plans for every type of terrain found in Texas.
by Duncan Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences.
Examining the theory and practice...