Landscape

Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the...

In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958636711Author Jeff NugentFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint SariPublisher SariWeight(grams) 1724g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262580946Author Tadahiko HiguchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994415738Author Edgar StubbersfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Rachel Stubbersfield PublishingPublisher Rachel Stubbersfield...

In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "New Virginia," the region west of the Blue Ridge Mountains set off the world of the farmer from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262620871Author Denise Le DantecFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979238666Author Tokie Laotan-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Arbi PressPublisher Arbi PressWeight(grams) 299g

Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this generously illustrated and provocative book, a landscape architect argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a...

How a forgotten environmental tradition of the pre-Civil War era may prove powerfully useful to us now Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the...

This book outlines the emerging determinants, in a global context, for the provision of housing for the growing, shifting and changing populations. In doing so the reader will be encouraged to forsee the complementary evolution in the planning, design...

This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development...

Living in a contemporary developed society means having access to a myriad of ways to communicate. One can either use public or private transport to meet others and talk face to face, or use a variety of communication networks, like mobile or fixed...

This book is intended for students, researchers and libraries in planning and urban development studies; also professional planners and development officers in government, local and central, and property development professionals in surveying and...

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided flood control, water purification, habitats, and recreational opportunities. But rather than rail against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620232Author Elizabeth Hope CushingPage Count 312Imprint 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 9783184197001Author Hope AguilarFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Hope AguilarPublisher Hope AguilarWeight(grams) 177g

The Seventh Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Lake Junaluska Assembly, North Carolina, on September 11-13, 1997. Contributors to the proceedings are Kathleen L. Kadlec; Bill Carson; Bill Carson and Judith Francis; Edward J.P. Hauser; Philip A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785904202798Author Somiya MurthiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint MB PublisherPublisher MB PublisherWeight(grams) 159g

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex. Working primarily between 1950, the year of the first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral, to 1969,...

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canada’s natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of landscapes designed by Canadian landscape architects. This edited collection draws on contemporary works to theorize a distinct approach...

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...

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...