Landscape category: 1155 books
La città attraente
Luoghi urbani e arte contemporanea
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Le immagini delle città rinviano sempre a quelle delle loro opere più famose. Si tratta di opere di elevato contenuto simbolico che i cittadini sentono proprie e che associano a valori e a temi collettivi. Nelle città storiche erano tali le chiese, i palazzi civici, i teatri e i monumenti. In quelle...
by Gianluca Draghetti
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2017
New York Silver Nitrate è un lavoro della nostalgia e della memoria. Nostalgia degli errori, delle imperfezioni, dello sporco sulla pellicola. Nostalgia del caso, dello scatto rubato, dell’impossibilità a controllare subito. Un percorso fotografico nella giungla urbana di New York, un viaggio...
Le trasformazioni dei paesaggi nel territorio rurale: le ragioni del cambiamento e possibili scenari futuri
Approfondimenti interdisciplinari per la salvaguardia, la gestione e la pianificazione - facing english text
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Il tema delle trasformazioni dei paesaggi nel territorio rurale, già da tempo oggetto di attenzione da parte di numerosi ricercatori di diverse discipline e a tutt'oggi di estrema rilevanza ed attualità, viene trattato in questo volume attraverso un approccio originale ed innovativo che pone un...
by Guglielmo Scoglio
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Il libro fa il punto su due veri rompicapo di cui si sono occupati molti studiosi: l’ubicazione del tempio di Diana Facelina e il sito del castello di Demena. Suggestive le riflessioni sul Cenacolo di Monforte che potrebbe nascondere un messaggio della tradizione dei Templari relativa al Graal.
Perché...
by D. Fairchild Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
"In the course of my research," writes D. Fairchild Ruggles, "I devoured Arabic agricultural manuals from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. I love gardening, and in these texts I was able to enter the minds of agriculturalists and botanists of a thousand years ago who likewise...
by Paolo Tieto
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Una ricostruzione storica delle abitazioni contadine ormai quasi scomparse con immagini da opere pittoriche d’epoca e le fotografie degli ultimi esemplari rimasti.
Inserto ‘Album dei Ricordi” con 22 fotografie d’epoca. Disegni di Orfeo Tamburi.
Prefazione di Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè Dal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing innovative...
Fairy Houses
How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
**Add an exquisite flourish of design to your beloved green space or garden by adding tiny fairy homes inter-woven with nature. Fairy Houses gives you the instruction and inspiration you need to start!
Have you ever seen a real fairy house? Not the ceramic ones at cavernous home improvement...
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees
Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species: An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives. This time, their subject is the native...
Trajectories of Conflict and Peace
Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war.
This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating...
Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard
101 Ways to Make Your Property Home for Creatures Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Many people think of wildlife as something distant, creatures living in natural forests and remote public preserves. But most wildlife in the United States isn?t found in the distant wild. It lives on our private lands, in our very backyards. Because of this, America?s ten million woodland owners...
Housing and Health in Europe
The WHO LARES project
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health of inhabitants and their housing conditions, with focus...
The Right to Transportation
Moving to Equity
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Does transportation affect the lives of minority, low-income, elderly, and physically disabled citizens? The answer is yes, and those effects can be profound, according to The Right to Transportation. The authors argue that transportation policies can limit access to education, jobs, and services...
by Nick Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
A beautifully photographed guide for gardeners keen to attain the elusive colour-packed 'year-round garden'. Covering ideas on how to use, combine, design with and prolong colour, the book focuses on achievable ways of growing plants of every tone through 12 months of the year. It provides gardeners...