Landscape category: 1155 books
The Food Forest Handbook
Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests can help increase...
Grow More With Less
Sustainable Garden Methods: Less Water * Less Work * Less Money
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Horticultural expert Vincent Simeone helps you plan your green garden in this practical, holistic guide.
With detailed, strategic timelines for both short-term and long-term gardening techniques, Grow More with Less lets you put your best foot forward in creating an efficient, sustainable...
Agriculture in Urban Planning
Generating Livelihoods and Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...
Site Analysis
Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The process-oriented guide to context-sensitive site selection, planning, and design
Sustainable design is responsive to context. And each site has a unique set of physical, biological, cultural, and legal attributes that presents different opportunities and constraints for alternative uses...
Corridor Ecology
The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Corridor Ecology presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas with an overarching goal of conserving biodiversity. It offers an objective, carefully interpreted review of the issues and is...
Designing Greenways
Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
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, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into...
European Forest Recreation and Tourism
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for this growing demand poses challenges that need to be addressed by managers and designers alike.
Based on a study of forest recreation from across...
Japanese Gardens
Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Featuring beautiful photographs and insightful commentary this Japanese gardening book is a must-have for any gardening or zen enthusiast.
At the heart of a Japanese garden is harmony with nature. More than simply a landscape of trees and flowering shrubs, a Japanese garden provides a place...
Marking Time
Performance, Archaeology and the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance...
Biophilic Design
The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
"When nature inspires our architecture-not just how it looks but how buildings and communities actually function-we will have made great strides as a society. Biophilic Design provides us with tremendous insight into the 'why,' then builds us a road map for what is sure to be the next great design...
Atmospheric Architectures
The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.
Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics...
by Nicola Garmory, Rachel Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates some of the most significant award winning public spaces in major cities in the UK and Ireland over the last ten years.
Dealing with a range of contemporary and innovating designed landscapes from urban spaces to public parks, this book focuses...
Planning Futures
New Directions for Planning Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Planning theory is currently in a confused state as a consequence of a number of changes over the last ten years in planning practice and social and economic theory. Even prior to these events, planning theory was an uncertain discipline, reflecting planning's precarious position between and resting...