Landscape

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...

"The park throughout is a single work of art, and as such, subject to the primary law of every work of art, namely, that it shall be framed upon a single, noble motive, to which the design of all its parts, in some more or less subtle way, shall be...

Whether flying a kite in Franklin Park, gardening in the Fens, or jogging along the Riverway, today’s Bostonians are greatly indebted to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted. The man who dreamed of an “emerald necklace” of parks for Boston completed his...

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'scape is the international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and urban design. Lively, with international voices and a critical eye, it presents selected news items, in - depth feature articles, concise essays, solidly based and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982757529Author Samantha FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)Publisher Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)

How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely,...

Houses and gardens created in America between 1860 and 1917 were ""modern"" manifestations of nineteenth century art, science, and industry, conveying cultural values in their form, function, style, and materials. Now Increasing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692027486Author Albert DegenovaFormat PaperbackImprint After Hours PressPublisher After Hours PressWeight(grams) 127g

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...

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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 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...

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...

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...