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Landscape and Sustainability
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of 'sustainability' as a concept, this is the first book to address the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability... more...
The Allotment Diaries
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99Anyone whos ever spent their weekends, evenings and even lunchtimes at the allotment will delight in Kay Sextons stories of life at the Voodoo Plot and the entertaining characters that keep her amused throughout the year. As the plot thickens and the growers thrive or struggle to flourish, theres an abundance of year-round horticultural... more...
Violets & Vines
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 6.50Violet &?Vines is an analogy of maintaining and tending a garden. Each chapter takes the reader through the needs to keep their life garden vibrant and colourful, and demonstrates how, although things are not always easy and take great courage, brutal decisions are sometimes essential in order to restore sanity and self-belief. more...
Making Landscape Architecture in Australia
University of New South Wales Press 2013; US$ 49.99A history of landscape architecture in Australia, this book profiles the people who have shaped the nation?s landscape and forged a profession: designers, architects, public servants, and activists. Using archival images and plans, it recounts milestones, including the creation of Melbourne?s public parks and gardens, the landscaping of Canberra?s... more...
Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00Providing a fresh approach to the theory of design, Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can develop. The book brings together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines including psychologists, philosophers, geologists, ecologists, cultural geographers,... more...
Spon's Landscape Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00There have been such great changes in legislation, official guidance, the British Standards and the techniques used in landscape and external works since the third edition was written ten years ago that the Handbook has been totally rewritten for this edition. This new edition of the Handbook provides a guide to planning and landscape law, a review... more...
The Economic Value of Landscapes
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder... more...
Landscapes of Memory and Experience
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 80.95It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores possible ways out of this impasse in such a way that landscape studies would become pivotal through... more...
Making Landscape Architecture in Australia
UNSW Press 2012; US$ 49.99This first history of landscape architecture in Australia profiles the people who have shaped the nations landscape and forged a profession: designers, architects, public servants and activists. Using archival images and plans, the book recounts in fascinating detail milestones such as the creation of Melbournes public parks, the acclaimed... more...
Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 47.95Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes ? climatic, geological, ecological and cultural ? over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge ? ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured... more...









