Landscape

This new edition includes more than one thousand concise entries, organized by state and city, listing specific details on the location, hours, and history of each garden. For each state, gardens are located on a map. The focus is on historic gardens in...

The Fifth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Boone, North Carolina, on September 8-11, 1993. Contributors to the proceedings are Edward T. McMahon; Sidonio Costa Pardal; Nancy K. Robinson; Peter S. Szabo; Jim Fox; Sharon Kashkin and Gene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578491103Author Peter Lamborn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 136g

Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities. This guide puts forward a new conceptual framework of embodied affectivity that emphasises listening in urban research and design and advances new...

Through selected works this monograph showcases the design work and research of leading landscape architect Richard Weller, Chair of Landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The book documents the evolution of Weller’s practice from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802074819Author Robert LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814428033Author Patrick Bingham-HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Pesaro Publishing Pte LtdPublisher Pesaro Publishing Pte LtdWeight(grams) 1500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788394246969Author ArcheobooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 449g

Every garden is an imagined paradise - a garden paradise that incorporates the personality of the individual who created it, but also the long history of horticulture. The book recounts the history of gardens from their likely origins in Mesopotamia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620386Author Ethan CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620249Author William E O'BrienPage Count 208Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620140Author Frank A WaughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620133Author Blanche M G LindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape...

Stones in Water explores how the inherited built environment is understood and valued. This inheritance, created by the forebears of communities worldwide, is central to cultural identity everywhere. It is variously protected, exploited and at times...

The Author: Heo Kyun ('Huh Gyun') has spent most of his adult life studying Korean aesthetics as seen in traditional paintings, architecture, handicraft and Buddhist art, paying special attention to the symbols used in those art forms as well as the...

Of the three great civilizations of East Asia, Korea used to attract the least attention. Overshadowed by their neighbours in China and Japan, Koreans had trouble gaining recognition abroad for the many accomplishments of their ancestors in such fields...

For E. C. Relph, the landscape of late twentieth-century cities must be envisioned as a total environment-not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. The Modern Urban Landscape traces the developments since 1880 in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235323Author Hong Kong Architecture Science PressFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 2380g

Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to the Boston area in the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice...

As suburban expansion declines, cities have become essential economic, cultural and social hubs of global connectivity. This book is about urban revitalization across North America, in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, New York...

Water conservation is one of the most effective sustainable design practices, yet few professionals know how to collect and use rainwater effectively. Rainwater Harvesting the first comprehensive book on designing rainwater harvesting systems. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979483646Author Richard MandellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint T. Eliot PressPublisher T. Eliot PressWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 166mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023272Author Michel ConanFormat PaperbackImprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley's work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at...

Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became...

Spanning four continents and six countries, this book introduces "new art landscapes" that fuse architecture, the reuse of found structures, environmentalism, and artistic experimentation. Through words and pictures, readers explore six institutions -...

Written for the design professional, this book offers basic concepts for site security design and risk/threat assessment, and their relationship and integration into the overall design/streetscape projects. This book is the only reference to offer...

Complete coverage of the art and science of planting design This comprehensive guide provides clear, step-by-stepinstructions for creating a planting composition, from preplanningand developing a preliminary design to implementing the final plan.It...

This book showcases new trends in the vital and changing field of landscape design. Important contemporary concerns affecting the landscape professional are considered: the impact of recent scientific research, historic preservation, populations with...

Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars...

Delving into all aspects of designing and maintaining unique interior landscapes, this colorfully illustrated book demonstrates how to realize landscapes for a variety of different interiors, from private homes to corporate office buildings, and in...

Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L. Cantor's Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design explains the field of landscape architecture, outlining with authority how to turn drawings of designs...

For decades Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed, studied, and protected today. His plans and professional correspondence offer a...

Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition is fully updated with more than fifty percent new material, including more than twenty-five recent innovations in the golf industry. Revealing both the art and science of golf course architecture, it takes readers...

Landscape architects Topotek 1 work as commuters across different disciplines, landscape-typologies and scales; the office also jaunts into architecture, urban design and art. The book introduces Topotek 1's most important approaches and methods, and...

Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images - 129 of them in color, this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical...

Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists...

Exploring the "morphogenesis" of the city in Western civilization, this new edition contains updated material, a new introduction, and additional illustrations.About the AuthorJames E. Vance, Jr., is emeritus professor of geography at the University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078469056Author Ad KoolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Techne PressPublisher Techne Press

From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to understand the everyday places that surround us and...