This handbook aims to increase attention to small and medium sized cities and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges i...Lasīt vairāk
The book analyses contemporary art spaces both in terms of production and consumption in Hongkong and Singapore, which all rose in the last decade. It is about embedding these places in the respective urban context as well as the spatial design of t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774871907)
The right to the city the freedom for all to occupy, govern, change, and enjoy the city and access its resources is fundamental to genuinely inclusive democracy. Claiming the Right to the City critically explores attempts to redefi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779400765)
Reflections from the lone traveller, for whom a highway was never the intended destinationWalking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilsons singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, al...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779400772)
Reflections from the lone traveller, for whom a highway was never the intended destinationWalking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilsons singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, al...Lasīt vairāk
A rare glimpse into the mind of Jacques Herzog, Calder Gardens: Sketches & Notes traces the poetic and probing journey behind a visionary cultural landmark where architecture, art, and landscape meet. Calder Gardens: Sketches & Notes b...Lasīt vairāk
A standard reference on the typology of the urban high-rise, now available in English for the first time in a revised, updated, and expanded edition...Lasīt vairāk
The idea of environment is foundational to landscape architecture as backdrop, as surround, as something to help save.But what is the environment, or an environment? First and foremost, it is a word that is so pervasiveand its mea...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to...Lasīt vairāk
Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West HarlemIt was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote h...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts. ...Lasīt vairāk
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy stations under our feet, vents will be doing vital work keeping them cool and fume-free....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781961856868)
Tashiding: Between Earth and Sky presents a sumptuous portrait of a 100-acre rural landscape and stunning residence developed in connection with the land and the environment.Visited by up to 500 guests annually, this number promises to...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Library of American Landscape History, ISBN-13: 9781952620409)
Boston-based landscape architect Warren H. Manning (18601938) forged an innovative approach to city planning that combined modern mapping methods with nineteenth-century ideals of rural life. Believing that connection with natural beauty could im...Lasīt vairāk
Supergraphic Landscapes explores contemporary public art and creative placemaking strategies that amplify identity, access, and belonging in public spaces.The book catalogs, analyzes, and speculates on urban design methodologies that p...Lasīt vairāk
Existing as it does on the brink of being overrun, urbanized or abandoned, rurality is contested. Even in the field of academia, it is often questioned or considered a minor subordinate appendix to urbanity.Since the ancient Greeks, co...Lasīt vairāk
Through cultural mapping and design methodologies, this book illuminates the role of architecture in preserving collective memory while adapting to contemporary needs. The focus on memory and history brings attention to the restoration and reinter...Lasīt vairāk
