Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia sufferers with their physical environment include sensory stimulation and enhanced cognitive, psychological and physical well-being, as well as improved behaviour management. approach to caring for dementia sufferers by considering their emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being. The book provides comprehensive examples of the wide range of ways a person can connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities, elements and environments, such as caring for house plants and pets, gardening and cooking, practising handicrafts and domestic chores, and offers solutions and insights to a professional understanding of the design of buildings and landscapes. psychology, neurology, architecture, nursing and dementia care practice, and spells out practical ways in which care providers and design professionals can design for nature in dementia care.

Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory, focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details and construction photographs. Descriptions of key processes and adaptive qualities provide an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration and erosion control. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.

This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of knowledge. Altogether, this key international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages innovative ways of thinking about quality in design.

Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development."Ecology and Design" addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology as a standard part of their courses and curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers models from successful programs. The book: examines the need for change in the education and practice of landscape architecture and in the physical planning and design professions as a whole asks what designers and physical planners need to know about ecology and what applied ecologists can learn from design and planning develops conceptual frameworks needed to realize an ecologically based approach to design and planning offers recommendations for the integration of ecology within a landscape architecture curriculum, as an example for other design fields such as civil engineering and architecture considers the implications for professional practice explores innovative approaches to collaboration among designers and ecologistsIn addition to the editors, contributors include Carolyn Adams, Jack Ahern, Richard T. T. Forman, Michael Hough, James Karr, Joan Iverson Nassauer, David Orr, Kathy Poole, H. Ronald Pulliam, Anne Whiston Spirn, Sandra Steingraber, Carl Steinitz, Ken Tamminga, and William Wenk. "Ecology and Design" represents an important guidepost and source of ideas for faculty, students, andprofessionals in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and architecture, landscape ecology, conservation biology and restoration ecology, civil and environmental engineering, and related fields.

A major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as more than 100 pages of legal commentary. The model regulations are generally compatible with all state statutes and work in urban, suburban, and rural settings. They show how communities can finance capital facilities, balance new development with existing surroundings, avoid exposure to the legal pitfalls of takings and substantive due process claims, and much more. Two new chapters cover public facilities impact fees and land readjustment. The chapter on impact fees includes a section on regulatory takings law that looks at how prominent U.S. Supreme Court cases have affected property rights, development, and regulation. Each section of the model regulations is followed by insightful commentary that supports, annotates, and documents the text. The authors explore the rationale for using various regulations, basing their arguments on existing statutory authority, case law, and federal constitutional requirements. The commentary identifies and explains changes from the original model regulations. Whether you're drafting new regulations or considering amendments to existing ones, you'll find Model Subdivision Regulations to be an invaluable reference.

Das Interesse an Parks und Gartenanlagen, in denen moderne Skulpturen und Natur eine besondere Verbindung eingehen, steigt stetig. Landschaft dient als inspirierendes Ambiente fur Kunstwerke, die ihrerseits die Anlagen beleben und so ein ganz eigenes Spannungsmoment zwischen Kunst und Natur erzeugen. In zweiter Auflage prasentiert der Fuhrer mehr als 90 Parks aus 27 europaischen Landern, neu sind u. a. Finnland, Ungarn und Polen. Zu den prasentierten Anlagen gehoeren Klassiker wie die Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence oder das Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, aber auch spektakulare neue Anlagen wie das Museo Atlantico, der erste Unterwasser-Park Europas vor der Kuste Lanzarotes. Jeder Park und die in ihm ausgestellten Kunstwerke werden mit Fotografien, Planen und Texten vorgestellt.

Auf vielfaltige Art und Weise ist die Geschichte der Zivilisation eine Geschichte der Beziehung der Menschen zur Natur. Angefangen beim gegensatzlichen Umgang mit Land - einerseits Raum gewinnend fur den Ackerbau, andererseits Land gestaltend um Raum zum Schutz abzugrenzen - hat Christophe Girot sich auf den Weg gemacht, diese Entwicklung aufzuzeichnen: Er erzahlt von unserer kulturellen Verbindung zu aber auch unserer Abhangigkeit von der Landschaft. In 12 Kapiteln tragt er die Schlusselereignisse zusammen, die unsere Landschaft geformt haben. Dabei fokussiert jedes Kapitel auf ein Thema und beschreibt die Entwicklungen und ein Projektbeispiel: Mit speziell angefertigten Fotografien und 3D-Gestaltungen wird der entsprechende Ort in seinem ursprunglichen Kontext nachvollziehbar. Die Vielzahl an kulturellen Bezugspunkten und die Besonderheiten der Landschaften sensibilisiert unser Verstandnis dafur, wie wir unsere Umwelt geformt haben und in welcher Beziehung wir zu ihr stehen.

The wilderness begins at our front door, but we rarely notice. City dwellers today rely more and more on modern technologies and numerous media channels and are increasingly losing the ability to navigate their own environment, let alone the wilderness, without the assistance of an app. Somehow isolated and without reference to other fellow living beings, we become more and more foreign to our basic, everyday lives... and lose contact with nature. Urban Wilderness is a guide to experiencing nature in the city, to creating an awareness of the fact that we share our urban space with other living beings. Scientific, philosophical, and artistic contributions provide a detailed explanation on the various aspects of urban wilderness and present a differentiated view of the urban environment. In addition, the book offers the interested reader an opportunity to increase his or her own perception of nature and experience the city as more vibrant.

Dieses Grundlagenwerk fur die technisch-konstruktive Freiraumplanung gliedert sich systematisch in drei Hauptkapitel: 1 Material und Oberflachen bietet eine UEbersicht zu den verschiedenen Baustoffen der Landschaftsarchitektur und ihre spezifischen Eigenschaften sowie Erlauterungen zu Oberflachenqualitat und ihre Bearbeitungsmoeglichkeiten. 2 Konstruktion von Freiraumelementen: das grundlegende Kapitel zu Prinzipien der Statik, Verbindungen tragender Elemente, Grundungen von Bauteilen und Stutzbauwerken. 3 Bauelemente und Bauweisen: der umfangreichste Teil zu den Konstruktionsprinzipien aller Bauelemente und Techniken mit detaillierten Zeichnungen. Zu jedem Kapitel gibt es entsprechende Beispielprojekte mit Fotos und technischen Zeichnungen. Das Buch ist unverzichtbar fur die fachgerechte Ausfuhrungsplanung und fundierte Vorbereitung von Ausschreibungen in der Landschaftsarchitektur. Fur die dritte Auflage wurde das Werk durchgesehen, uberarbeitet und insbesondere hinsichtlich neuer Richtlinien und Normen aktualisiert. "Erstmals steht mit dem Handbuch eine grundliche und aktuelle Darstellung landschaftsgestalterischer Techniken zu Verfugung, die dem Laien wie dem Fachmann gleichermassen nutzt." (Bauwelt) "Bausteine des Wissens sind es, die bis zum richtigen Dubel, zum tragfahigen Trager, zur strapazierfahigen Wiesensaat zusammengestellt sind. Nach dem Band Architektur konstruieren ein weiteres Standardwerk fur mehr Bodenhaftung im ach so bildbetonten Architekturbetrieb." (db deutsche bauzeitung)

Dieses Lehrbuch zur Grunen Stadt untersucht Stadtnatur als Ideal, Leistungstrager und Konzept fur Stadtgestaltung. Es beantwortet wichtige aktuelle Fragen, die sich zu den oekologischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, zur Entwicklung und Struktur und zum oekologischen Leistungsvermoegen von Stadtnatur weltweit stellen. Das Buch erklart, was Stadtnatur ist, wie sie entstand und wie sie sich im Kontext zu den naturlichen und kulturellen Bedingungen ihrer Standorte entwickelte. Zudem wird beschrieben, was urbane Biodiversitat ausmacht und welche Rolle differenzierte Stadtnatur im Konzept der Grunen Stadt einnimmt. Theorien der Stadtentwicklung und OEkologie werden mit praktischen Anwendungen der Stadtplanung verbunden und mit vielen Fallstudien und Beispielen veranschaulicht. Die grossen Potenziale von Stadtnatur werden im Detail aufgezeigt. Um Probleme in der Stadt zu bewaltigen oder zu mildern, bedarf es eines zielgerichteten, an die besonderen Bedingungen der verschiedenen Stadtnatur-Arten angepassten Stadtnatur-Managements, das Naturschutz wie Naturgestaltung gleichermassen einschliesst und dabei immer den Bezug zu den Stadtbewohnern im Auge behalt. Das Lehrbuch spricht besonders Studierende und Lehrende der Facher Stadtplanung, OEkologie, Geographie, Sozialwissenschaften sowie Praktiker der Stadtgestaltung an.

Andrew Bromberg, of global architecture and design practice Aedas, was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and now lives and works in Asia. He is a leading light in the design of cutting-edge skyscrapers and large-scale development projects that consider cities not just as collections of buildings but as human-made landscapes shaped by social and economic forces as gradual or as abrupt as the erosions, accretions, uplifts and explosions that shape the natural world. Now inhabiting the craggy mixture of natural and human-made structures that define Hong Kong, Bromberg has long modelled his work on his knowledge of nature and his understanding of tectonic forces, both natural and human. Drawing on a series of conversations and exploratory walks in major Asian cities - including Singapore and Ghuangzou - architecture critic Aaron Betsky reveals how Bromberg visualizes his settings and locates his designs within the complex and dynamic contexts in which they appear. Interspersed amid these urban reflections is a largely visual presentation of over twenty of Bromberg's most exciting recent projects across Asia and the Middle East. Together these comprise a monograph/manifesto that offers a singular vision for the cities that will shape our future world.

Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.

Die Andeutungen uber Landschaftsgartnerei, das Hauptwerk von Puckler-Muskau, sind ein Klassiker der Landschaftsarchitektur und seit der Erstveroeffentlichung 1834 in zahlreichen Ausgaben erschienen. In Zusammenarbeit mit der amerikanischen Foundation for Landscape Studies werden sie hier in einer zuverlassigen und attraktiven Ausgabe mit einer Einleitung der fuhrenden Puckler-Kennerin Linda Parshall vorgelegt. Die 44 Ansichten und 4 Karten aus dem grossformatigen Atlas zu den Andeutungen, der das Original begleitete, sind als zweiter Teil in das Buch integriert und werden in einer zusatzlichen EPUB-Ausgabe in der Originalgroesse des Atlas von ca. 51 x 35 cm wiedergegeben. Die marginal beigegebene Seitenkonkordanz ermoeglicht prazise Referenzen auf das Original.

Urban green spaces are gaining significance in our everyday lives and also contribute to our identification with the urban environment. The reclaiming of open spaces in cities has become a political issue that reflects quite different views and ways of dealing with this development. 25 landscape architects based in Germany, as well as an architect, outline in a prescribed form their ideal vision of an urban garden: their "favourite garden". Kamel Louafi asks the contributors about their approaches and visions, their way of working, as well as about issues such as sustainability and urban gardening. The book shows the wide variety of possible interventions of landscape architecture, presented through sketches and texts, which nevertheless have similar aims. Furthermore it proves the extent to which urban gardening influences our socio-cultural and aesthetic understanding.

Changes over the course of time is a specific category of landscape architecture in open spaces and with organic materials: sustainability, identity, the preservation and development of our natural environment and our built living environment are designed in and by time-based processes. What does this mean for the concrete implementation in landscape architectural concepts and current projects? In essays, interviews, and presentations of the best projects realized over recent years, Time Scales pinpoints the challenges, tasks, and performance of current landscape architecture. The book will appear on the occasion of the German Landscape Architecture Prize Awards Ceremony in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Federation of German Landscape Architects (bdla).

Tropical gardens are man-made paradises on earth: The seductive perfume of exotic flowers, gently splashing water and unimaginable shades of colors provide the beholder with the setting for a dream. Since many are privately owned, this publication allows readers to look behind the gates and to discover the stunning beauty of some of the most magnificent tropical gardens of the world. These veritable lands of wonder betray the sure instinct and eye for details as well as the botanical knowledge of their landscape architects and gardeners. In addition to the creative arrangement of plants and trees, lakes and creeks with other natural treasures, the selected gardens show numerous ways of how added elements such as bridges, gazebos and garden furniture enhance the enchanting environment and accommodate the human visitor.

Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems are inextricably coupled and engaged in continuous cycles of mutual influence and response. This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective. To be effective and relevant, this new discipline must be founded on solid research, and practice must be based on data-driven evidence that will result in transformational changes. These directions and others will enable rural design to: help rural communities make land use, architectural, and aesthetic decisions that enhance their quality of life and the environment connect social, artistic, cultural, technological, and environmental issues that create rural place promote sustainable economic development for rural communities and improve human, livestock, crop, and ecosystem health and integrate research and practice across the many disciplines involved in rural issues to meet rural needs, provide new data, and provoke new research questions. Written by a world leading expert in rural design, who is director and founder of the University of Minnesota Center for Rural Design, the book is oriented toward students, academics and design professionals involved with rural design at any level.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented. The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award - winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.

The new volume in this 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? Will the changed relationship between city and country contribute to that, perhaps in the form of urban agriculture?
This book is being published on the occasion of the German Landscape Architecture Award 2011, the Special Housing Environment Award, and the largest competition for ideas from students and young professionals in landscape architecture and open space planning: the Peter Joseph Lenne Award. With a revised design and reworked structure, the essays and project descriptions in the book reveal the strategies with which the profession is meeting new challenges.

"We don't sell gardens; we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, building sponsors, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities - including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used - and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom. In three large sections, this books sifts through the currently commonplace and available techniques and evaluates them in terms of their informative value and persuasive power, always illustrating its points with analysis of examples from international firms. An introductory look at the development thus far is followed by a systematic presentation of modes of representation in two, three, and four dimensions - in the plane, in space, and in the temporal process. The second section deals with the sequence of modes within the workflow: from the initial sketch through concept and implementation planning all the way to the finished product. The third section deals with the strategic use of visualizations in the context of competitions, future scenarios, and large-scale landscape planning. The focus in this section is not on the familiar fundamentals of the relevant techniques, but rather on the methods and forms of visual representation in contemporary landscape architecture.

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.

A la difference de la maconnerie ou du beton, la plante est un materiau vivant qui evolue au cours des saisons et des annees. Ses aspects changeants et sa croissance constituent des facteurs a prendre en consideration lors de l'elaboration du projet et de l'amenagement.

Les plantes peuvent etre utilisees a divers niveaux du projet: pour couvrir des elements (murs vegetaux, couverture du sol, gazon) et creer des volumes a differentes hauteurs (haies, buissons, arbres, etc.).

Themes abordes:

• Les principes de base dans l'utilisation des plantes
• Typologie des plantes
• Effet produit dans l'espace et fonction
• Rapport avec le lieu
• Principes de l'amenagement
• Plan des vegetaux et representation
• Realisation

Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory,focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details and construction photographs. Descriptions of key processes and adaptive qualities provide an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration and erosion control. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.