Landscape

Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for...

Milwaukee in Stone and Clay follows directly in the footsteps of Raymond Wiggers's previous award-winning book, Chicago in Stone and Clay. It offers a wide-ranging look at the fascinating geology found in the building materials of Milwaukee County's...

LA+ Botanic explores our evolving relationship with plants with contributions that reflect on the many natures and relations that are being materialised in plant conservation, botanic gardens, and botanic art today. A wide range of topics is covered,...

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has...

Time is a factor in urban design. Projects sometimes take decades to materialise. Some never make it. This monograph features three decades of urban design projects at Johnson Fain varying in type and scale from conceptual architecture to the design for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798633536492Author Noah NehlichFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Structure BooksPublisher Structure BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383419432Author I P SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Copal Publishing GroupPublisher Copal Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 476g

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868949142Author Kailyn BailFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Big Chonk BooksPublisher Big Chonk BooksWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884025016Author Heather DorriesFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994415714Author Edgar StubbersfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Rachel Stubbersfield PublishingPublisher Rachel Stubbersfield...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383419142Author Pallavi ShrivastavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Copal Publishing GroupPublisher Copal Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 222g

This is a book about ideal landscapes and Feng-Shui. Using evolutionary and anthropological approaches, Peking University professor Kongjian Yu - who holds a doctorate degree in Design from Harvard - explores the origin, structure, and meanings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274739Author Anna CristiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401150Author Christine Edstrom O'HaraFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 28g

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers,...

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets...

This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994415783Author Edgar M StubbersfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Rachel Stubbersfield PublishingPublisher Rachel Stubbersfield...

In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck (1812-1868), Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer, entrepreneur, and horticulturist. Affleck's wide range of interests - animal husbandry,...

This second book featuring the work of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors includes the studios of Jeanne Gang, Sunil Bald and Mark Tsurumaki.Book InformationISBN 9780393733235Author Nina RappaportFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint WW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620317Author John NolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape...

The Third Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 19-22, 1989. Contributors to the proceedings are Woodward S. Bousquet; Anne Lusk; Jerry L. Rogers; Noel Grove; Boudewijn Bach; Grant Jones; Li Rusheng;...

The Sixth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 9-11, 1995. Contributors to the proceedings are Steven Elkinton; Christopher D. Jones and William E. Hammitt; Philip A. Grant Jr.; Michael Mastrota; M. Rupert...

Landscape Fascinations and Provocations reflects and builds on the work of Robert B. Riley (1931–2019), emphasizing his ongoing importance for landscape studies and landscape architecture. The title of the volume represents an attempt to distill Riley's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732010635Author Mercedes PeraltaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lots of Architecture LLCPublisher Lots of Architecture LLC

Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which have never before been published -- to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New...

The Second Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1987. Contributors to the proceedings are Gilbert W. Leebrick; Barry Buxton; Douglas Cruickshanks Jr.; Gary Everhardt; H.B. Ewert; John B. Slater; Harrold Eidsvik; Robert T...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985692681Author Don RittnerFormat PaperbackImprint Square Circle Press LLCPublisher Square Circle Press LLCWeight(grams) 499g

The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an...

Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, parks and park systems, and new...

It is Dieter Kienast s way to look at the traditional concepts of nature critically. In 1998 he wrote "a habitable town needs nature yet this cannot be limited to a concentration of vegetation" and so his landscape architecture gives expression...

Every year thousands of golf tournaments are held across the globe, from high profile majors like the PGA Championship and British Open to smaller regional, amateur, and member-guest events. Superintendents are responsible for preparing the course in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994415721Author Edgar StubbersfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Rachel Stubbersfield PublishingPublisher Rachel Stubbersfield...

The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader...

This complete guide to the evaluation, selection, and use of sustainable materials in the landscape features strategies to minimize environmental and human health impacts of conventional site construction materials as well as green materials. Providing...

One of the singular talents in landscape design, Chip Sullivan has shared his expertise through a seemingly unusual medium that, at second glance, makes perfect sense--the comic strip. For years Sullivan entertained readers of Landscape Architecture...

This book features historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas.Book InformationISBN...

From Brooklyn's parks and parkways, across the Iowa prairie, to Big Sur's coastal highway, people are drawing green lines on local maps and building "greenways"-linear open spaces that preserve and restore the skein of nature in cities, suburbs, and...