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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate (Hardcover): Sara Wilkinson, Tim Dixon, Norm Miller, Sarah Sayce Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate (Hardcover)
Sara Wilkinson, Tim Dixon, Norm Miller, Sarah Sayce
R5,411 Discovery Miles 54 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate brings together the latest research of leading academics globally, demonstrating the nature and extent of the impact as well as suggesting means of mitigating humankind's impact and building resilience. Four sections examine the different aspects of sustainable real estate: governance and policy valuation, investment and finance management redevelopment and adaptation. Covering all land uses from residential to commercial, retail and industrial, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate is an exciting mixture of received wisdom and emerging ideas and approaches from both the developed and developing world. Academics, upper-level students and researchers will find this book an essential guide to the very best of sustainable real estate research.

Ecology, Community and Delight - An Inquiry into Values in Landscape Architecture (Paperback): Ian Thompson Ecology, Community and Delight - An Inquiry into Values in Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
Ian Thompson
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice: the aesthetic, the social and the environmental and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future. The book integrates an investigation of historical sources with contemporary research into the beliefs and values of practitioners. The book raises questions such as: should landscape architecture aspire to the status of an art form? What is the relationship between aesthetics and ecology? Does landscape architecture have a social mission?

Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide (Paperback): Jan Mahnken Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide (Paperback)
Jan Mahnken
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ultimate reference guide for everyone who loves birds! This gorgeously illustrated volume is brimming with information about attracting, enjoying, and understanding 135 of North America's most common species. You'll learn how to feed them, house them, provide nesting materials, and keep them coming back year after year.

More than half of the book is dedicated to in-depth profiles of individual species with detailed, accurate paintings of birds and information about their habits, size, breeding range, winter range, habitat, incubation and nesting periods, preferred foods, and much more.

Landscape Construction - Volume 1: Walls, Fences and Railings (Paperback): E.T. Phillips Landscape Construction - Volume 1: Walls, Fences and Railings (Paperback)
E.T. Phillips
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security. The elements discussed include free-standing brick and stone walls, fences, gates and railings. Fittings and finishes are also covered. Each section describes the materials, construction and constraints relevant to the subject and a large number of detailed figures and photographs supplement the text and help to illustrate the more important aspects. There is also a section on preservation treatment and painting. The current British Standard references are included.

Land Use Scenarios - Environmental Consequences of Development (Paperback): Alan W. Shearer, David A. Mouat, Scott D. Bassett,... Land Use Scenarios - Environmental Consequences of Development (Paperback)
Alan W. Shearer, David A. Mouat, Scott D. Bassett, Michael W Binford, Craig W Johnson, …
R2,180 Discovery Miles 21 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Meanings of Landscape - Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice (Hardcover): Kenneth R. Olwig The Meanings of Landscape - Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice (Hardcover)
Kenneth R. Olwig
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea of landscape from the ancient polis and theatre through to the present day.

Architecture China: 2020 Building with Nature - Architecture China Award (Paperback): Li Xiangning, Mo Wanli, Chandranie,... Architecture China: 2020 Building with Nature - Architecture China Award (Paperback)
Li Xiangning, Mo Wanli, Chandranie, Georgia (Gina) Tsarouhas
R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This issue, Fall 2020, Building with Nature: Architecture China Award, is a catalogue of the award, one of the most prestigious architectural awards in China. Organised by Architecture China, it embraces the concept of building with nature proposed by the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Wang Shu. There are four categories: Excellence Award in Practice, Exploration Award in Techniques, Prospect Award for Youth, and Jury Special Award. The evaluation committee members of the award include Wang Shu, Cui Kai, Yung Ho Chang, Li Xiangning, Ge Ming, Wang Lu, Aric Chen, Ching-Yueh Roan, Benedetta Tagliabue, Iwan Baan and Philip Ursprung.

Landscape Construction - Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures (Paperback): E.T. Phillips Landscape Construction - Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures (Paperback)
E.T. Phillips
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security. The elements discussed include free-standing brick and stone walls, fences, gates and railings. Fittings and finishes are also covered. Each section describes the materials, construction and constraints relevant to the subject and a large number of detailed figures and photographs supplement the text and help to illustrate the more important aspects. There is also a section on preservation treatment and painting. The current British Standard references are included.

Humphry Repton - Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (Hardcover, New): Stephen Daniels Humphry Repton - Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Daniels
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (1752-1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton's career and work in the context of the changing human geography of his time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures, the book charts Repton's vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself. Stephen Daniels frames Repton's life and work in terms of five domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way these domains shaped Repton's career and how he in turn attempted to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty representative commissions that delineate Repton's social and spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself in English culture and society. Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape (Paperback): Janet Swailes Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape (Paperback)
Janet Swailes
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand - rather than reliance upon plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio. Aimed primarily at landscape architects, Janet Swailes takes the reader on a journey through the art of field sketching, providing guidance and tips to develop skills from those starting out on a design course, to those looking to improve their sketching. Combining techniques from landscape architecture and the craft and sensibilities of arts practice, she invites us to experience sensations directly out in the field to enrich our work: to look closely at the effects of light and weather; understand the lie and shapes of the land through travel and walking; and to consider lines of sight from the inside out as well as outside in. Full colour throughout with examples, checklists and case studies of other sketchers' methods, this is an inspirational book to encourage landscape architects to spend more time in the field and reconnect with the basics of design through drawing practice.

Green Infrastructure - Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation (Paperback): Ian C. Mell Green Infrastructure - Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation (Paperback)
Ian C. Mell
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing. How we interact with, manage and value these spaces is important, as it helps us to ensure we live in attractive, functional and sustainable places. Green Infrastructure planning is the current 'go-to' approach in landscape planning that incorporates human-environmental interactions, understandings of ecology and how socio-cultural factors influence our use of parks, gardens and waterways. This book explores several interpretations of Green Infrastructure bringing together case studies of policy, practice, ecological change and community understandings of landscape. Focusing on how planning policy shapes our interactions with the landscape, as individuals and communities, the book discusses what works and what needs to be improved. It examines how environmental management can promote more sustainable approaches to landscape protection ensuring that water resources and ecological communities are not harmed by development. It also asks what the economic and community values of Green Infrastructure are to illustrate how different social, ecological and political factors influence how our landscapes are managed. The central message of the book focusses on the promotion of multi-functional nature within urban landscapes that helps people, the economy and the environment to meet the challenges of population, infrastructure and economic change. The chapters in this book were origianally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.

The Loudons and the Gardening Press - A Victorian Cultural Industry (Paperback): Sarah Dewis The Loudons and the Gardening Press - A Victorian Cultural Industry (Paperback)
Sarah Dewis
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener's Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, the Loudons were key players in the democratization of print media and the development of the printed image. Both offered women readers a cultural alternative to the predominantly literary and classical culture of the educated English elite. In addition, they were innovatory in emphasizing the value of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of taste as a means of eroding class difference. As well as the Gardener's Magazine, Dewis focuses on the lavish eight-volume Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838), an encyclopaedia of trees and shrubs, and On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries (1843), arguing that John Loudon was a radical activist who reconfigured gardens in the public sphere as a landscape of enlightenment and as a means of social cohesion. Her book is important in placing the Loudons' publications in the context of the history of the book, media history, garden history, urban social history, history of education, nineteenth-century radicalism and women's journalism.

Into the Culture Cave - Generator of Art and Community, Emotions and Ideas (Hardcover): Jorn Weisbrodt Into the Culture Cave - Generator of Art and Community, Emotions and Ideas (Hardcover)
Jorn Weisbrodt
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For 17 days in June 2016 the Luminato Festival transformed the Hearn Generating Station in the Port Lands in Toronto into the largest temporary cultural and community center in the world. The Hearn Generating Station is three times the size of Tate Modern and fits the Statue of Liberty in it upright. It was decommissioned in 1983 and apart from serving as a location for movie shoots, such as Robocop and Pacific Rim, has been closed to the public. Around 100,000 people visited the Hearn Generating Station and experienced large-scale exhibitions, theater performances, classical, pop, electro concerts, club events, talks, parkour workout sessions, drag queen shows, a high end French bistro run by Canada s top chefs in the former control room and no walls. Luminato Festival s residency at the Hearn was inspired by three ideas: Jane Jacob s dogma that new ideas must use old buildings . Ariane Mnouchkine s hierarchy free theater company Theatre du Soleil. Cedric Price s and Joan Littlewood s Fun Palacethinking about architecture in terms of process and events in time rather than objects in space.Into the Culture Cave fully documents this remarkable Festival and the 17 days that created a live proposal for the future of this building and outlined a model for a multi-disciplinary cultural institution of the twenty-first century that is able to reflect the values of openness and diversity of the society that it is founded in. Conventional multi-disciplinary institutions like the Barbican Centre still separate in space and not in time. In the "Culture Cave" this rule is inverted. Everything happens in one huge spaceinspired by the cave, the earliest form of human shelterbut is separated in time. Audiences are able to experience the entire breadth of human activity and creativity and do not have to prioritize."

Landscape Construction - Volume 2: Roads, Paving and Drainage (Paperback): C.A. Fortlage, E.T. Phillips Landscape Construction - Volume 2: Roads, Paving and Drainage (Paperback)
C.A. Fortlage, E.T. Phillips
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security. The elements discussed include free-standing brick and stone walls, fences, gates and railings. Fittings and finishes are also covered. Each section describes the materials, construction and constraints relevant to the subject and a large number of detailed figures and photographs supplement the text and help to illustrate the more important aspects. There is also a section on preservation treatment and painting. The current British Standard references are included.

Emerging Landscapes - Between Production and Representation (Paperback): Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou Emerging Landscapes - Between Production and Representation (Paperback)
Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world. Drawing on the synergies between the fields of architecture and photography, this collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining practice-based research with scholarly essays. It explores and critically reassesses the interface between representation - the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment - and production - the physical and material changes wrought on the land. At a time of environmental crisis and the 'end of nature, 'shifting geopolitical boundaries and economic downturn, Emerging Landscapes reflects on the state of landscape and its future, mapping those practices that creatively address the boundaries between possibility, opportunity and action in imagining and shaping landscape.

Mediterranean Landscape Design - Vernacular Contemporary (Paperback): Louisa Jones Mediterranean Landscape Design - Vernacular Contemporary (Paperback)
Louisa Jones
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. Today's artists, sculptors, designers, architects and gardeners explore age-old vernacular materials, skills and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that affirms an ideal of partnership with nature while celebrating layers of living in this multifaceted region. Each work observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use. Illustrated with hundreds of exceptional photographs by award- winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on nearly forty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture.

Landscape as Infrastructure - A Base Primer (Paperback): Pierre Belanger Landscape as Infrastructure - A Base Primer (Paperback)
Pierre Belanger
R1,839 Discovery Miles 18 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure-the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning- has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today-including shifting climates, material flows, and population mobilities, are addressed and strategized here. Responding to the under-performance of master planning and over-exertion of technological systems at the end of twentieth century, this book argues for the strategic design of "infrastructural ecologies," describing a synthetic landscape of living, biophysical systems that operate as urban infrastructures to shape and direct the future of urban economies and cultures into the 21st century. Pierre Belanger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. As part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Advansed Studies Program, Belanger teaches and coordinates graduate courses on the convergence of ecology, infrastructure and urbanism in the interrelated fields of design, planning and engineering. Dr. Belanger is author of the 35th edition of the Pamphlet Architecture Series from Princeton Architectural Press, GOING LIVE: from States to Systems (pa35.net), co-editor with Jennifer Sigler of the 39th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, Wet Matter, and co-author of the forthcoming volume ECOLOGIES OF POWER: Mapping Military Geographies & Logistical Landscapes of the U.S. Department of Defense. As a landscape architect and urbanist, he is the recipient of the 2008 Canada Prix de Rome in Architecture and the Curator for the Canada Pavilion ad Canadian Exhibition, "EXTRACTION," at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale (extraction.ca).

Using Plants for Stormwater Management - A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South (Paperback): Dana Nunez Brown Using Plants for Stormwater Management - A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South (Paperback)
Dana Nunez Brown
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The subtropical climate of the Gulf South supports a varied abundance of flora, and this diversity is sustained by the ample amount of rainwater that characterizes the region. Managing rainwater in a planned environment and mitigating its effect on human habitation can test the skills of even the most seasoned landscape architect or designer. That challenge has never been more acute as increased human demand for natural resources compels professionals and home gardeners alike to seek out sustainable ecological solutions.

In this guidebook, Dana Nunez Brown details ways to manage each drop of rainwater where it falls, using a cost-effective and environmentally sensitive approach. Under natural conditions, rainfall primarily percolates into the ground and flows as groundwater until it is absorbed by trees and other vegetation, after which it is evaporated into the atmosphere and the cycle starts anew. Brown identifies plants and techniques that leverage this natural process in order to filter, clean, and slow runoff, a practice known as Low Impact Development.

Using Plants for Stormwater Management presents the native ecological communities and plant species of the Gulf South in easy-to-follow sections and diagrams. Information ranging from the productiveness of root structures and the compatibility of plants with local soils to the optimal elevation of specific vegetation and the average dimensions of foliage is represented by graphic icons for quick and easy identification.

An accessible and essential resource, this book gives both novices and experts the know-how to harness rainfall and create beautiful, ecologically functioning landscapes.

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order (Hardcover): Kathleen John-Alder Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order (Hardcover)
Kathleen John-Alder
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light. The author explores McHarg's formative years, and investigates how his ideas developed in both their complexity and scale. As a precursor to McHarg's approach in his influential book Design with Nature, this book offers new interpretations into his search for environmental order and outlines how his struggle to understand humanity's relationship to the environment in an era of rapid social and technological change reflects an ongoing challenge that landscape design has yet to fully resolve. This book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in landscape architectural history.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander - Making the Modern Landscape (Paperback): Susan Herrington Cornelia Hahn Oberlander - Making the Modern Landscape (Paperback)
Susan Herrington; Foreword by Marc Treib
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design ethic, and her early years working with architectural luminaries such as Louis Kahn and Dan Kiley prepared her to bring a truly modern?and audaciously abstract?sensibility to the landscape design tradition. In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes, including the 1970s design of the Robson Square landscape and its adjoining Provincial Law Courts?one of Vancouver's most famous spaces. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal. Oberlander is a progenitor of some of the most significant currents informing landscape architecture today, particularly in the area of ecological focus. In her thorough biography, Herrington draws much-deserved attention to one of the truly important figures in landscape architecture.

The Crosby Arboretum - A Sustainable Regional Landscape (Hardcover): Robert F Brzuszek, Neil G. Odenwald The Crosby Arboretum - A Sustainable Regional Landscape (Hardcover)
Robert F Brzuszek, Neil G. Odenwald
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since its genesis in 1980, Crosby Arboretum in southern Mississippi has attracted international recognition for its contributions to architecture, biology, and landscape design. Now owned and operated by Mississippi State University, Crosby is the first fully realized ecologically designed arboretum in the United States and the premier native plant conservatory in the Southeast.

Former site director and curator Robert F. Brzuszek provides a detailed survey of the arboretum's origins, planning, construction, and ongoing management. More than just a botanical center, Crosby emerged as one of the first American landscape projects to successfully balance natural habitat and planned design. The book's generous selection of photographs and drawings illustrate the beauty and purpose of the site's components: the award-winning Pinecote Pavilion, designed by architect Fay Jones; a 104-acre focus area that includes the Piney Woods Lake, which displays native water plants in their natural setting; and seven hundred additional acres of savanna, woodland, and aquatic environments that nurture more than 300 species of indigenous trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses.

Utilizing the interactions between two opposing natural forces -- fire and water -- Crosby Arboretum protects the biological diversity indigenous to the Pearl River Drainage Basin, in southern Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana. Brzuszek's inspiring and informative account will help further Crosby's role as a model of sustainable landscape design and management across the country.

Melancholy and the Landscape - Locating sadness, memory and reflection in the landscape (Paperback): Jacky Bowring Melancholy and the Landscape - Locating sadness, memory and reflection in the landscape (Paperback)
Jacky Bowring
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written as an advocacy of melancholy's value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape's aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.

Follow This Thread - A Maze Book to Get Lost In (Hardcover): Henry Eliot Follow This Thread - A Maze Book to Get Lost In (Hardcover)
Henry Eliot
R511 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R77 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma - Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience... Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma - Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience (Hardcover)
Abbas Rajabifard
R2,551 Discovery Miles 25 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, and between countries, affects sustainable development at local, national, and regional levels. To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global challenges, Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma: Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience, brings together leading international geospatial experts to analyze the role of land and geospatial data infrastructures and services for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda have been longstanding aspirations worldwide, the complexity and connectivity between social, economic, environmental, and governance challenges are changing with large-scale urbanization and population growth. Structured in 5 parts, the themes and objectives of the book are in line with the critical challenges, gaps, and opportunities raised at all UN-GGIM events and UN-GGIM Academic Network forums. Through the different perspectives of scholars, industry actors, and policy-makers, this book provides interdisciplinary analysis and multisectoral expertise on the interconnection between the SDGs, geospatial information, and urban and rural resilience. Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma: Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience is an essential reference for researchers, industry professionals, and postgraduate students in fields such as geomatics, land administration, urban planning, GIS, and sustainable development. It will also prove a vital resource for environmental protection specialists, government practitioners, UN-GGIM delegates, and geospatial and land administration agencies. Features: Introduces a holistic and new approach to sustainable development Brings together social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability Highlights the significance and the role of geospatial information in sustainable development Examines urban and rural interdependencies in the context of strengthening resilience Written by experts with diverse academic and professional backgrounds who examine connectivity and develop strategic pathways

Planting Design - Connecting People and Place (Hardcover): Patrick Mooney Planting Design - Connecting People and Place (Hardcover)
Patrick Mooney
R3,667 Discovery Miles 36 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood. This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences and responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia, including: Andrea Cochran, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA Design Workshop Inc. Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology, Seattle, WA Shunmyo Masuno, Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., Yokohama Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, The Netherlands Melody Redekop, Vancouver Christine Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc., Austin, TX Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Ltd., Beijing. The book stimulates thought, provides new direction and assists the reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are many valid processes and intentions for landscape design, the book is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a strict design method and accompanying set of rules, Planting Design provides information, insight and inspiration as a basis for developing the individual designer's own expression in this most challenging of art forms.

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