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The Art of South Florida Gardening
A Unique Guide to Planning, Planting, and Making Your Subtropical Garden Grow
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Gardeners from Key West to Lake Okeechobee and on up the coasts know that gardening advice for the rest of the country just doesn't apply here. South Florida is unique, and The Art of South Florida Gardening is uniquely intended for South Florida gardeners, who have depended on the solid advice in...
by Jack Staub
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Escape to 22 lush garden retreats through exquisite photography and delightful stories. This privileged tour guides the reader through the colorful flora of Florida’s best-kept grounds, while homeowners share the history of their uniquely landscaped abodes. Meet the painter-turned-horticulturist...
by Sally Wasowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
In today's South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast new palette of plant materials—native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore...
by Susan M. Opp
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local level remains highly contested and subject to a wide range of external cultural, political and economic pressures. Bringing together leading experts from...
Smart Urban Regeneration
Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics, students and property professionals.
Starting...
by Yoichi Kawamoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
The Vermont Gardener's Companion
An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Green Mountain State
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont’s short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where “winter temperatures plunge far below zero...
Gardening in the South
Vegetables & Fruits
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1989
This second volume in the Gardening in the South series gives readers a complete course in growing fruits and vegetables.
by Darren Sheriff
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Have you always wondered, WHAT could you be doing in your yard at any given time during the year?
This e-book will give you the first three months, of a soon to be entire year collection, for a Zone 8 gardener. There are little tricks in it that can be used by other zones also. What veggies...
Carolinas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
If you’re interested in growing your own fruits and vegetables, you’ve joined the ranks of a blossoming group of DIY gardeners who place a premium on the idea of self-reliance. But like any other kind of gardening, growing edibles is not a one-size-fits-all pursuit: in order to be successful,...
Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition
Geographies, societies, policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Since the formal raising of the Iron Curtain, there has been much interest in post-socialism and the process of post-socialist transition. This timely book provides a systematic review and analysis of the process of ‘transition’. Herrschel:
explores recent theories, concepts and debates on...
by Gil Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This handy handbook, which can be used independently or as a companion to The Trees of Florida and The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida, makes it possible to easily identify all of Florida's native and naturalized woody plants. The text is formatted as a traditional botanical key, offering a series...
by Libby Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler...