Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western industrialised world and embrace a wider geography while engaging with the specificity of climate and place. Accompanied by stunning colour illustration and photography, Flow brings together historical, theoretical and practice-based approaches to consider themes of nature, mobility, continuity and frames.

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries. Consequently, it is not enough for land managers to consider only how they might maintain the parcels for which they are responsible; they must also anticipate how changes to neighboring lands might impact their properties.

Land Use Scenarios: Environmental Consequences of Development demonstrates how the success of local decision making is largely determined by factors that are difficult to control or forecast. It shows the importance of geographic vulnerability analysis, which takes into consideration possible scenarios about how, where, and when future patterns of land use might develop. It points to the consideration of critical uncertainties those aspects of the future, that while difficult to predict, may have a profound impact on pending decisions.

Detailing research supported by the United States Marine Corps, the text presents a study of the region of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Air Station Miramar in California. While this area remains largely un-built, but extensively used, ongoing regional growth is having dramatic impact on the land and must be factored into any decision making. This research

• Provides a better understanding of the potential consequences of urban development on native flora and fauna
• Describes theoretical concerns prompted by scenario-based projections
• Gives an overview of the history of scenario-based techniques for urban and regional planning
• Helps define measures for maintaining undeveloped lands in rapidly developing areas

In publishing this research, the investigators provide information regarding issues of urban development and possible environmental consequences to stakeholders and jurisdictions whose actions may influence the future of the region. More broadly, the book will aid managers and stakeholders from other areas to engage spatial contingencies toward the goal of developing more resilient landscapes.

Jackson discussed the evolution of the development, use, and perception of landscape--the space around us in the most general sense. The title chapter examines the proliferation of historic parks and monuments and argues that American culture demands a three-step formulation of history.

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor spaces are finely attuned to the Mediterranean climate and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle for which Southern California is known. They make use of local building materials and craftspeople and offer their owners a unique emotional connection to nature. Firmly planted in time and place, the projects, complete with plans, define not so much a style as an experience and thrive with little effort from their owners.

English summary: A collection of scientific articles on Italian efforts to limit microfungal infections and contamination in cereal production and products. Italian text. Italian summary: M.G. D'Egidio, A. Visconti, A Ersilio Desiderio E. Brugna, Il bando Miglioramento qualitativo delle produzioni cerealicole in relazione alla presenza di micotossine e il Progetto Valutazione e controllo della contaminazione da micotossine nelle produzioni cerealicole nazionali (MICOCER) E. Desiderio, Obiettivi e articolazioni del progetto interregionale MICOCER C. Brera, F. Debegnach, B. De Santis, E. Pannunzi, C. Berdini, E. Prantera, M. Miraglia, Validazione di metodi immunoenzimatici per la determinazione delle micotossine in campioni di cereali M. Pascale, M. Haidukowski, A. Visconti, G. Aureli, M.G. D'Egidio, E. Desiderio, L. Plizzari, M. Corbellini, Confronto tra metodi ELISA e HPLC per la determinazione del deossinivalenolo (DON) in frumento tenero e duro G. Aureli, M.G. D'Egidio, A. Belocchi, E. Desiderio, Monitoraggio delle produzioni nazionali di frumento duro per la presenza di deossinivalenolo (DON) L. Plizzari, A. Brandolini, E. Desiderio, Monitoraggio della presenza di deossinivalenolo (DON) nella granella di frumento tenero A. Verderio, N. Berardo, A. Ferrari, P. Lagana, C. Lanzanova, A. Pietri, Le micotossine nelle produzioni italiane di mais E. Desiderio, G. Aureli, D. Conti, G. Mazzieri, M. Pascale, A. Belocchi, M. Fornara, Percorsi produttivi per la prevenzione della contaminazione da deossinivalenolo (DON) nel frumento duro M. Blandino, A. Reyneri, M. Pascale, M. Haidukowski, M. Corbellini, L. Plizzari, G. Mazzieri, D. Scudellari, Percorsi produttivi per la prevenzione della contaminazione da deossinivalenolo nel frumento tenero A. Reyneri, M. Blandino, A. Bondi, G. Colombari, T. Mancuso, A. Pietri, Percorsi produttivi per la prevenzione delle micotossine nel mais G. Piva, A. Pietri, A. Gallo, Micotossine: fattore limitante nelle produzioni animali

The book presents the phenomenon of the garden and its various cultural features. It compares historical aspects of the garden with its contemporary models and focuses on various cultural traditions and different ways of presentation of this problem, in the context of world literature, problems of visual arts, questions of architecture, ecology, universal aspects of language, as well as philosophical problems of axiology and aesthetics. All those contexts combine to form a picture of a phenomenon that could be called "the metaphor of the garden", containing a universal anthropological image of "space" in which dynamic re-evaluation of rhetorical models take place and the order of Nature complements cultural models of human understanding of reality.

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the genius behind New York's Central Park. In 1883 Olmsted established "Fairsted" in suburban Boston, the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. Over the course of the next century, his sons and successors sustained and expanded upon Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence. His son, F. L. Olmsted, Jr., helped to lay the groundwork for the National Park Service in 1916.
David Grayson Allen chronicles the creation and development of the Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts, which opened in 1979 after nearly a decade of struggle and controversy and now welcomes thousands of visitors and researchers every year. The Site's history is emblematic of the evolving role that landscape architecture plays in modern American lives and reflects the stunning transformation that has taken place within the National Park Service itself within the last quarter century. Original, sophisticated, meticulously researched, and well-written, The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation will resonate with readers interested in historic preservation and landscape architecture.

A delightful tour through gardens and garden writing of the past.

This volume brings together the papers presented at a conference entitled 'Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century', held at the Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, University of London on 13 March 2004. Speakers came from Europe, the United States and New Zealand, and each gave a very different perspective on the eighteenth-century landscape garden in England, France and elsewhere in Europe. The papers focused on the theme of experience, an especially important aspect of eighteenth-century garden design. Landscape gardens were created for visitors to move through on a journey from one place to the next: the garden would not be seen all at once, but would be experienced as a story unfolding. The visitor would follow a circuit around the garden, moving from light to shade, being given suggestive prompts with statues, temples and viewpoints, as if on a sensory, emotional and intellectual journey.

Essays by the Horticulture columnist whose work the New York Times called "delectable."