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by Sharon Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Welcoming birds to your yard isn’t about choosing the right feeders and bird food. If you want to attract the widest range of birds to your home, you need to plant a diversity of native plants. Why go green? Native plants live longer; they are drought resistant, take less water and fertilizer, they...
Oltre la rinaturalizzazione
Studi di ecologia storica per la riqualificazione dei paesaggi rurali
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 14, 2015
La proposta è di andare oltre le politiche della rinaturalizzazione, attraverso una visione innovativa che permetta di valutare le modalità con cui nuove conoscenze sulla storia e l'archeologia delle risorse ambientali e sulla caratterizzazione storica del patrimonio naturalistico e del patrimonio...
by Larz Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Planning the Built Environment takes a systematic, technical approach to describing how urban infrastructures work. Accompanied by detailed diagrams, illustrations, tables, and reference lists, the book begins with landforms and progresses to essential utilities that manage drainage, wastewater, power,...
Understanding Tall Buildings
A Theory of Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place. By analyzing hundreds of tall buildings and by providing hundreds of visuals that inspire, stimulate and engage, Understanding...
The Syntax of City Space
American Urban Grids
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical division of the land. However, other cities of the world also began as planned towns with geometric layouts so American cities are not unique. Why did the...
Participatory Design Theory
Using Technology and Social Media to Foster Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of information to being directly involved in decision-making procedures. Increasingly, governments are putting citizen participation at the centre of their policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities’ commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood residents, we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming "hollowed out," bereft of...
Making Community Design Work
A Guide For Planners
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together. Making Community Design Work shows how planners can guide the process toward effective decision making and beneficial community design.
This well-crafted book distills decades of community...
Les jardins, de la révolution industrielle à nos jours
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte des jardins, de la révolution industrielle à nos jours avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Caractériser l'histoire des jardins par une succession de phases stylistiques rattachées à des écoles nationales, comme le voulait l'historiographie fondée au XIXe siècle,...
by Liliana Angela Angeleri
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Lilli e Giusy: una madre e una figlia, dal carattere ancora immaturo e in formazione, hanno un rapporto difficile. Partecipano insieme ad un percorso in automobile che rievoca la cavalcata del Marchese Aleramo a cui nel X sec. era stata promessa dall’Imperatore tutta la terra che sarebbe riuscito...
The Midwestern Native Garden
Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native...
The Chinook Short Season Yard
Quick and Beautiful in the Calgary Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Creating and maintaining the perfect yard in the chinook zone isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help Calgary-area homeowners get the jump on the short season, popular gardening...
by Gilles Clément
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Publicado originariamente en francés en 2004, Manifiesto del Tercer paisaje se ha convertido en uno de los textos clave para entender el paisajismo contemporáneo. Gilles Clément vuelca en él un programa para el Tercer paisaje, aquel que aparece en las cunetas de las carreteras, en los lugares...
Neoliberal Housing Policy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates social...