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Grüner Wohnen / Green Living
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 64.95This volume in the series on contemporary landscape architecture is concerned with how life quality can be increased by improving our living environment through planning and raising the quality of public space. How green do we want our housing to be? What are the essential criteria of a successful planning of open space in residential architecture?... 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...
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Springer 2005; US$ 29.95In the field of landscape architecture, there is no more distinguished voice than Michael Van Valkenburgh, and it therefore seems appropriate that we begin this new "Source Books in Landscape" series with his recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its... more...
System Landschaft / Landscape as a System: Zeitgenössische deutsche Landschaftsarchitektur / Contemporary German Landscape Architecture (German and English Edition)
Springer 2009; US$ 74.95Landschaft" wird heute immer stärker als komplexes System begriffen: Biotope und Wasserkreisläufe, Freiräume und Bauten, Nachbarschaften und Wirtschaftsräume sind Komponenten dieses Systems. Eine solche Betrachtung des Landschaftsraums als gemeinsame Schnittstelle von sozialen, kulturellen, wirtschaftlichen und anderen Prozessen bringt beflügelt... more...
Landscapes of Privilege
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 42.95James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion. more...
European Landscape Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 67.95Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details. Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making... more...
Public Spaces, Private Gardens
LSU Press 2011; US$ 29.95Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents? many of which have never been published until now? to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who shaped them. Public Spaces, Private Gardens, an informative stroll through the last... more...
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