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The Planting Design Handbookby Nick Robinson
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 59.95First published in 1992, Nick Robinsons Planting Design Handbook has since become widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. This second edition still provides a complete examination of both the principles and the practice of design with plants, for public, institutional and private landscapes, but is fully revised and updated, taking account of developments in professional practice and reflecting a variety of media which are currently used. The layout of the book is clearer and more spacious, with colour illustrations. While retaining the beautiful drawings of Jia-Hua Wu, it includes an international range of new photographs and professional drawings, including examples of CAD and other digital... more...
Landscapeby Simon Bell
Spon Press 1999; US$ 165.00The original concept for Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process is to bring together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines. This book demonstrates how the best integration can be achieved. more...
Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Designby Tom Turner
Routledge 1998; US$ 61.95Part of a series of books on environmental planning, this comprehensive text focuses on environmental impact assessment and design. more...
Ecological Landscape Design and Planningby Jala Makhzoumi; Gloria Pungetti
Spon Press 1999; US$ 110.00The authors of Ecological Landscape Design and Planning offer an holistic methodological approach to the design and planning of landscape, based on both research and practical experience. more...
Elements of Visual Design in the Landscapeby Simon Bell
Spon Press 2004; US$ 55.95In Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape the author explains a range of design principles using tangible, relevant examples covering all types of landscape. more...
Landscape And Sustainabilityby John F. Benson; Ken Fieldhouse
Taylor & Francis 2000; US$ 165.00This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscape at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. more...
Wrightscapesby Charles Aguar
McGraw-Hill 2002; US$ 45.00Analyzes 85 of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs paying particular attention to site planning, landscape design, community scale and regional planning. This book provides a perspective of the man and his work by presenting previously ignored aspects of his achievements, interests, and career. It emphasises on his distinct organic style of architecture. more...
Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Designby Robert L. France
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 139.95Discusses the remediation of degraded environments such as industrial landfills, mining sites, buried urban rivers, seriously polluted or effectively destroyed wetlands, Superfund sites, and abandoned factories. This book talks about the environmental perspectives of landscape architects and urban planners. more...
Landscape and Sustainabilityby John Benson; Maggie Roe
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 130.00This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability. Much in the text is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. Landscape and Sustainability establishes that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals: the driving question must always be is it sustainable? Developing theory into... more...
Wasserlandschaftenby Herbert Dreiseitl; Dieter Grau
Springer 2006; US$ 89.95Nach Jahrzehnten der Verdrängung von Wasser aus dem Siedlungsraum ist dieses in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt zum gestalterischen Thema geworden. Die Integration natürlicher Wasserläufe in die bebaute Umgebung, die Klimatisierung von Stadträumen durch Wasserskulpturen, aber auch die Schaffung von Ruhe oder Erlebnisorten wie Brunnen und Bassins stoßen nicht nur bei Architekten und Stadtplanern auf Interesse, sondern werden auch in der Öffentlichkeit beachtet. Dieses Buch zeigt die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der kreativen Arbeit mit Wasser in der Stadt, Kunst, Landschaft und Architektur. Die dokumentierten Arbeiten umfassen u.a. einen großen neuen Stadtpark in Portland, Oregon, den Botanischen Garten im New Yorker Stadtteil Queens, den Umbau... more...









