This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines three landmark utopian visions in 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. A must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture, as well as u...Lasīt vairāk
Walking, Landscape and Environment explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking....Lasīt vairāk
Groves are both literal and metaphorical manifestations, ways of defining spaces and ecologies in our cultural life. Since they can add meaning to urban forms and ecologies and contribute meaningfully to the significance of place, critical examinati...Lasīt vairāk
Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architects landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environment....Lasīt vairāk
Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the citys urban development during the late twentieth a...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing from the unique context and climate of the Himalaya, this book highlights several innovative design interventions, shaped by a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and political factors that have been employed in villages to combat cli...Lasīt vairāk
McHargs ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. Yet few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, it demonstrates the...Lasīt vairāk
The book draws together theory in the field and implications for practice in landscape architecture and concludes with an examination of how different approaches to revealing and reimagining change can impact on the future management of the site....Lasīt vairāk
Dubai and the Landscape introduces a revolutionary characterization of landscape architecture. By combining the words paradise and landscape, Bolleter introduces parascape, a concept that is becoming more prevalent in the landscape profession thro...Lasīt vairāk
The approach taken in this book blends landscape and garden history to make new insights into landscape and design in the eighteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context....Lasīt vairāk
Written as an advocacy of melancholys value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscapes aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy....Lasīt vairāk
This book tests the hypothesis that place branding, a powerful marketing and management practice, increasingly blurs the distinction between the promotion of landscape and its production in design terms....Lasīt vairāk
Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods....Lasīt vairāk
