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Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society by Michiel Dehaene
RRP: £43.99£38.84Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an... -
Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing by Christopher T. Boyko
RRP: £37.99£33.38Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research that brings together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing - including transportation, housing, energy, and foodways - and illustrates the role of design... -
Transforming Public Space through Play by Gregor H Mews
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces. The introduced City-Play-Framework (CPF) is a practical urban analysis tool that allows urban designers, landscape architects and... -
Faux Mountains by Michael Jakob
RRP: £19.95£16.25Artificial mountains are a worldwide reality. Their presence influenced the history of urbanism, architecture, and landscape architecture. Burial sites use, very frequently, the intimidating shape of the man-made mountain. Incense burners in ancient... -
Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities by Kim Dovey
RRP: £53.99£47.27What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space? How can mapping extend the urban imagination and therefore the possibilities for urban transformation? With a focus on urban scales, Mapping Urbanities explores... -
Designing Parks: Berlin's Park am Gleisdreieck or the Art of Creating Lively Places by Leonard Grosch
RRP: £26.00£23.67Landscape architecture can be more than aesthetically innovative: it can contribute to integration in society, social stability, and a vibrant public life. But how does a park become an intensively used stage, a well-visited everyday location? What... -
The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe by Patricia A. Wilson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Drawing on first-hand accounts of action research in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, The Heart of Community Engagement illustrates the transformative learning journeys of exemplary catalysts for community-based change. Practitioners' stories of community... -
Sculpture Parks in Europe: A Guide to Art and Nature by Raul Rispa
RRP: £26.00£23.67There is a continually increasing interest in parks and gardens in which modern sculptures and nature form a special symbiosis. Landscapes are an inspiring ambiance for works of art, which in turn add something to the parks and gardens, thus creating a... -
The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric by Barrie Shelton
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise... -
Landscape Theory in Design by Susan Herrington
RRP: £61.99£54.01Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing, and how do these theories translate to... -
Natural Burial: Landscape, Practice and Experience by Andy Clayden
RRP: £49.99£43.90This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our... -
Learning from Arnstein's Ladder: From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement by Mickey Lauria
RRP: £36.99£32.53Sherry Arnstein, writing in 1969 about citizen involvement in planning processes in the United States, described a "ladder of citizen participation" that showed participation ranging from low to high. Arnstein depicted the failings of typical... -
Transport Planning by David Banister 9780415261722
RRP: £49.99£43.50Transport is central to many of the current planning and policy debates. Completely revised and restructured, the new edition of Transport Planning describes the evolution of transport policies and planning, linking the past with the contemporary and... -
Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV by Robert W. Berger
RRP: £63.00£53.44One of the functions of Louis XIV's Versailles was to provide a setting for the receptions of ambassadors, heads of state, and other visiting dignitaries who conducted diplomatic and political business with France. These activities became particularly... -
Historic Gardens of Cambridgeshire: and the Isle of Ely by Tim Mowl 9781908326324
RRP: £19.95£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908326324Author Tim MowlFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press LtdDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 11mm -
Research in Landscape Architecture: Methods and Methodology by Adri van den Brink
RRP: £49.99£43.90Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early... -
Spatializing Politics - Essays on Power and Place by Delia Wendel 9781934510469
RRP: £20.95£16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934510469Author Delia Duong Ba WendelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design -
Landscape Architecture Theory: An Ecological Approach by Michael D. Murphy 9781610917513
RRP: £43.00£36.01For decades, landscape architecture was driven solely by artistic sensibilities. But in these times of global change, the opportunity to reshape the World comes with a responsibility to consider how it can be resilient, fostering health and vitality for... -
Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes by Simon Bell 9781138967434
RRP: £43.99£38.84Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools. Including a variety of... -
Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures by Rosalea Monacella
RRP: £36.99£32.93No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of "symptoms" - increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfire events, salinification... -
Masterplanning Futures by Lucy Bullivant
RRP: £56.99£50.41Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and... -
Sustainable Heritage: Merging Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation by Amalia Leifeste
RRP: £49.99£43.90This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple... -
Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes by Phoebe Lickwar
RRP: £33.99£30.00Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating... -
Gentrification in a Global Context by Rowland Atkinson
RRP: £49.99£43.50Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and... -
Housing Development: Theory, Process and Practice by Ron Blake
RRP: £36.99£32.93Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic... -
The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception by John Hunt
RRP: £21.50£20.46No city has played a more seminal role in the development of "landscape" as a concept than has Venice. In a city where the land and gardens are reclaimed from a lagoon environment whose ecology is in jeopardy today, they are the very basis of life,... -
Planning for Climate Change: A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems... -
Olmsted Legacy: How Frederick Law Olmsted and His Firm Shaped the North American Landscape by The Cultural Landscape Foundation
RRP: £40.00£26.15200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our... -
Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West by Christian Tagsold 9780812246742
RRP: £63.00£53.44One 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, Sao Paulo, or Singapore. We often view these gardens as representative of the essence of... -
Green Space in the Community by Deniz Aslan
RRP: £35.00£24.03'Green space in the community' refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important... -
The New Pastoralism: Landscape into Architecture by Mark Titman 9781118336984
RRP: £26.95£23.83The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book's numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that... -
Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain by Peter Headicar 9780415469876
RRP: £53.99£47.27Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. Aided by over sixty clear illustrations, Peter Headicar disentangles this complex, modern issue in five parts, offering critical insights into:the... -
Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City by Professor Matthew Carmona
RRP: £47.99£42.81In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of... -
Connecting Places, Connecting People: A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century by Robert Cervero
RRP: £53.99£46.87What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising... -
Cities Design and Evolution by Stephen Marshall
RRP: £96.99£85.05Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the 'organic urbanism' of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the challenge of this question, investigating 'how cities are put... -
Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes by Margie Ruddick 9781610915984
£53.03This book offers a revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners. Can nature, in all its unruly wildness, be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book,... -
Heritage Planning: Principles and Process by Harold Kalman
RRP: £36.99£32.93This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation. Positioning professional practice within its broader applied and... -
Conservation in the Age of Consensus by John Pendlebury
RRP: £47.99£41.81This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation connecting it with wider societal and political forces. UK practice is used as a means, along with... -
The Working Man's Green Space: Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919 by Micheline Nilsen 9780813935089
RRP: £33.95£27.99With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained... -
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods by Mark Deakin
RRP: £58.99£51.48In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set...