A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development, restorative redevelopment represents an emerging paradigm for remediating landscapes. Rather than merely fixing the broken bits ...
Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe. The structure ...
Currently, phytotechnology planting techniques are employed post site contamination to help clean up already contaminated soil by taking advantage of the positive effects that ...
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt's key texts to illustrate how she forged ...
In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for ...
Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book ...
This is a set that brings together scholarly work on historical, conceptual, and technical aspects of the urban landscape. The role of landscape, as ...
The first practical yet in-depth exploration of how to reclaim the post-industrial landscape, this volume includes excellent case studies by practitioners and policy makers ...
Leading planning and geography authors present this comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the physical and social make up of Western cities accommodates ...
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the ...
There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we ...
Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People's Spaces attempts ...
The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide ...
The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built ...
Materials for Architects and Builders provides a clear and concise introduction to the broad range of materials used within the construction industry and covers ...
Contemporary cartography faces a threefold, simultaneous set of pressures. First, it is clear that a restricted circle of specialists no longer holds a monopoly ...
