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Ethical Planning Practitioner (Paperback): Jerry Weitz Ethical Planning Practitioner (Paperback)
Jerry Weitz
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them - even if the planner pays? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing planners, potential ethics violations abound, and the eye of public scrutiny never blinks. Planners need a guide, and now they have it: the first guidebook based on the current revision of the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The Ethical Planning Practitioner presents 76 scenarios, all real-life dilemmas based on the code's rules of conduct. Each scenario comes with tools to help planners explore the answers on their own, in a training session, or in a classroom. When you buy the guide through APA, you get something more: a recording author Jerry Weitz, FAICP, made with former AICP President Dwight Merriam, FAICP. Together they review three short videos, talk about the ethical situations they represent, and suggest the actions planners could take. The recording comes with a PowerPoint presentation that makes it a powerful teaching aid. This vital handbook looks at everyday ethics the way planners need to see them, in black, white, and shades of gray - but most of all, clearly. The Ethical Practicing Planner will not only instruct but inspire planners to strengthen the public's trust.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape (Hardcover): Karsten  Jorgensen, Nilgul Karadeniz, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape (Hardcover)
Karsten Jorgensen, Nilgul Karadeniz, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles
R6,146 Discovery Miles 61 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university-level landscape curricula. Focusing on the didactics of landscape education, this fully illustrated handbook presents and discusses pedagogy, teaching traditions, experimental teaching methods and new teaching principles. The book is structured into three parts: reading the landscape, representing the landscape and transforming the landscape. Contributions from leading experts in the field, such as Simon Bell, Marc Treib, Joerg Rekittke and Susan Herrington, explore landscape analysis, history and theory, design visualisation, creativity and art, planning studio teaching, field trips and site engineering. Aimed at engaging academic researchers and instructors across disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, ecology, planning and archaeology, this book is a must-have guide to landscape pedagogy as it stands today.

Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism (Paperback, English ed.): Juan Elvira, David Goodman Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism (Paperback, English ed.)
Juan Elvira, David Goodman
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kerb 23 [Digital Landscapes] (Paperback, English ed.): Georgia Aldous, Sophia Horomidis, Rebecca Pike, Robert Williamson Kerb 23 [Digital Landscapes] (Paperback, English ed.)
Georgia Aldous, Sophia Horomidis, Rebecca Pike, Robert Williamson
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tiny Taxonomy - Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture (Hardcover, English ed.): Rosetta S Elkin Tiny Taxonomy - Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture (Hardcover, English ed.)
Rosetta S Elkin
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kerb 24 [Territory] (Paperback, English ed.): Louella Exton, Kim Morte, Hayden Matthys, Millicent Gunner, Emma Groot Kerb 24 [Territory] (Paperback, English ed.)
Louella Exton, Kim Morte, Hayden Matthys, Millicent Gunner, Emma Groot
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Being the Mountain - Productora (Hardcover): Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles, Jesus Vassallo Being the Mountain - Productora (Hardcover)
Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles, Jesus Vassallo
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Architecture of Ethics (Hardcover): Thomas Fisher The Architecture of Ethics (Hardcover)
Thomas Fisher
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture - and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics. The Architecture of Ethics helps students in architecture and other design disciplines to understand the major approaches to ethics and to apply them to the daily challenges they face in their work. The book covers each of the four dominant approaches to ethics: virtue ethics, social contract ethics, duty ethics, and utilitarian ethics. Each chapter examines the dilemmas designers face from the perspective of one of these categories. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, the text also features 100 illustrations to help integrate these concepts into the design process and to support visual understanding. Ethics is now a required part of accredited architecture programs, making this book essential reading for all students in architecture and design.

The Architecture of Point William (Hardcover): Kenneth Frampton, Shim-Sutcliffe The Architecture of Point William (Hardcover)
Kenneth Frampton, Shim-Sutcliffe
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shim-Sutcliffe's masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield over two decades. Found conditions and new buildings are interwoven and choreographed to create a rich spatial experience moving between inside and out. Kenneth Frampton provides an insightful introduction with selected images and his own sketches framing a way of seeing Point William for the reader. Michael Webb's provocative interview with Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe describes their evolving vision for Point William and their two-decade journey towards its realisation. Acclaimed photographers Ed Burtynsky, James Dow and Scott Norsworthy contribute through their powerful images capturing the spirit of Point William through the seasons and over time.

The Heart of Community Engagement - Practitioner Stories From Across the Globe (Paperback): Patricia Wilson The Heart of Community Engagement - Practitioner Stories From Across the Globe (Paperback)
Patricia Wilson
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Drawing on first-hand accounts of action research in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, The Heart of Community Engagement illustrates the transformative learning journeys of exemplary catalysts for community-based change. Practitioners' stories of community engagement for social justice in the Global South elucidate the moments of insight and transformation that deepened their practice: how to deal with uncertainty, recognize their own blind spots, become aware of what is emergent and possible in the moment, and weave an inclusive bond of love, respect, and purpose. Each successive narrative adds a deeper level of understanding of the inner practice of community engagement. The stories illuminate the reflective, or inner, practice of the outside change agent, whether a planner, designer, participatory action researcher, or community development practitioner. From a shantytown in South Africa, to a rural community in India, or an informal settlement in peri-urban Mexico, the stories focus attention on the greatest leverage point for change that we, as engaged practitioners, have: our own self-awareness. By the end of the book, the practitioners are not only aware of their own conditioned beliefs and assumptions, but have opened their minds and hearts to the complex and dynamic patterns of emergent change that is possible. This book serves as a much-needed reader of practice stories to help instructors and students find the words, concepts, and examples to talk about their own subjective experience of community engagement practice. The book applies some of the leading-edge concepts from organizational development and leadership studies to the fields of planning, design, and community engagement practice. Key concepts include the deep dive of sensing the social field, seeing the whole, and presencing the emergent future. The book also provides a creative bridge between participatory action research and design thinking: user-based design, rapid prototyping, and learning from doing.

Reconstructing Historic Landmarks - Fabrication, Negotiation, and the Past (Hardcover): Wayde Brown Reconstructing Historic Landmarks - Fabrication, Negotiation, and the Past (Hardcover)
Wayde Brown
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada. Indeed, reconstruction has been the primary tool at the most influential historic sites, for example: the Governor's Palace and the Capitol at Colonial Williamsburg, USA, and in Canada, the Fortress of Louisbourg. Dozens of other reconstructions have appeared during the past century in North America, undertaken by individuals, communities, states, and provinces, and by national agencies responsible for cultural heritage. Despite this prevalence, historic reconstructions have received little scholarly attention and the question of what motivated the proponents of these projects remains largely unexamined. This book explores that question through detailed studies of ten historic reconstructions located throughout Canada and the United States, ranging from 1908 to 2011. Drawing upon diverse archival sources and site investigations, the proponents of each site are given voice to address their need to remake these landmarks, be it to sustain, to challenge, or even subvert a historical narrative, or - with reference to contemporary heritage studies - to reclaim these spaces. Reconstructing Historic Landmarks provides a fascinating insight into these shifting concepts of history in North America and will be of considerable interest both to students and scholars of historic preservation and indeed to heritage professionals involved in reconstructions themselves.

Riverine - Architecture and Rivers (Hardcover): Gerald Adler, Manolo Guerci Riverine - Architecture and Rivers (Hardcover)
Gerald Adler, Manolo Guerci
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.

Accented Futures - Language activism and the ending of apartheid (Paperback): Carli Coetzee Accented Futures - Language activism and the ending of apartheid (Paperback)
Carli Coetzee
R352 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R77 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In this wonderfully original and intensely personal--yet deeply analytical--work, Dr. Carli Coetzee argues in favor of difference and disagreement as legitimate forms of activism to bring about social change both inside and outside the teaching environment. She begins by defining "accentedness" as the process of actively working towards the ending of apartheid by being aware of the legacies of the past, without attempting to gloss over the conflicts and violence that may exist under the surface. Having established this, she examines the concept of "accent" in a broad educational context, analyzing it, not only as an accent of speech, but also an attitude, a stance against being understood--yet a way of teaching that requires teacher and pupil to understand each other's contexts. The book draws on seminal recent South African literature to illustrate a new way of reading and to theorize this teacher-student relationship. The ideas presented about the relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation, are evocative, thought-provoking, and even challenging at times. "Accented Futures" marks a significant and important contribution to research on identity in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as to the fields of education and translation studies.

Codify - Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (Hardcover): Bradley Cantrell, Adam Mekies Codify - Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
Bradley Cantrell, Adam Mekies
R5,124 Discovery Miles 51 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex systems. This curated volume spans academic and professional projects to form a snapshot of digital practices that aim to show how computation is a tool that goes beyond methods of representation and media. The book is organized in four sections; syntax, perception, employ, and prospective. The essays are written by leading academics and professionals and the sections examine the role of computational tools in landscape architecture through case studies, historical accounts, theoretical arguments, and nascent propositions.

Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning (Hardcover): Elizabeth Mossop Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Mossop
R4,696 Discovery Miles 46 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As different parts of the globe deal with the challenges of coastal settlements in the Anthropcene landscape of increasing uncertainty, the methods of design offer new strategies for developing and testing solutions. These complex problems require collaboration across disciplines, with scientists, planners, engineers, designers, and others able to work together in finding new ways of living in coastal and changing landscapes. Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning is an outstanding collection of essays by leading practitioners and academics from across the globe on design and planning for coastal resilience in the face of climate change. It thoroughly explores the questions of coastal change at different scales and provides international case studies that illustrate diverse strategies in different geographies and cultures. Taken as a whole, they canvas a broad palette of approaches and techniques for engaging these complex problems. Divided in two parts, this book focuses on how to develop solutions through multidisciplinary design thinking and informs all stakeholders on specific methods and practices that will be needed to work effectively in this dynamic space.

China Goes Urban (Bilingual edition) - The City to Come (Paperback): Michele Bonino, Francesco Carota, Francesca Governa,... China Goes Urban (Bilingual edition) - The City to Come (Paperback)
Michele Bonino, Francesco Carota, Francesca Governa, Samuele Pellecchia
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Urban Soils - Applications & Practices (Hardcover): PJ Craul Urban Soils - Applications & Practices (Hardcover)
PJ Craul
R4,003 Discovery Miles 40 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The soil which is found in large cities offer distinctive challenges to the landscape architect or horticulturist responsible for maintaining these urban plantings. Often compacted, contaminated, or otherwise unsuitable for use in major landscape projects, these soils require practical methods which can insure a successful outcome of a landscape project. This applications-oriented, introductory reference addresses numerous topics in the field of urban soil science.

Building the Architect's Character - Explorations in Traits (Hardcover): Kendra Schank Smith, Albert Smith Building the Architect's Character - Explorations in Traits (Hardcover)
Kendra Schank Smith, Albert Smith
R5,086 Discovery Miles 50 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An understanding of architects' character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility, resourcefulness, and visionary and strategic thinking. Characteristics such as these describe a successful person. Architects also possess these traits, but they have additional skills specifically valuable for the profession. These will include the ability to question the use of digital media, new materials, processes, and methods to convey meaning in architectural form. Although not exhaustive, a discussion of such subjects as defining, imaging, persuading, and fabricating will reveal representational meaning useful for the development of an understanding of architects' character. Through the analogies and metaphors found in Greek myth, the book describes the elusive, hard-to-define characteristics of architects to engage the dilemmas of a changing architectural landscape. Building the Architect's Character: Explorations in Traits examines traditional and archetypal characteristics of the successful architect to ask if they remain relevant today.

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton, Mick Atha The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton, Mick Atha
R6,462 Discovery Miles 64 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for 'landscape', a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners, and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local, national and international policy in relation to landscape. The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes, and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike.

The Great Padma Book - Life and Times of an Epic River (Hardcover): Kazi Khaleed Ashraf The Great Padma Book - Life and Times of an Epic River (Hardcover)
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive book on the River Padma, considered the last leg of the Ganges, with a rich collection of new photographs and maps. The Great Padma Book defines the life and history of the Bengal Delta, the largest delta in the world. The book contains original essays by well-known writers, researchers, and academics from diverse fields, including geography, history, literature, architecture, and food history. The preface is written by the renowned author Amitav Ghosh (The Hungry Tide). Besides unpublished photographs documenting the magnificence and diversity of the great river, and wonderful set of maps and diagrams, the book has a rich content in depicting the life and times related to this turbulent river. The wonderful design and layout of the book will make this a collectable item.

Theory in Landscape Architecture - A Reader (Paperback): Simon Swaffield Theory in Landscape Architecture - A Reader (Paperback)
Simon Swaffield
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, "Theory in Landscape Architecture" reminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethics.

Codify - Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (Paperback): Bradley Cantrell, Adam Mekies Codify - Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
Bradley Cantrell, Adam Mekies
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex systems. This curated volume spans academic and professional projects to form a snapshot of digital practices that aim to show how computation is a tool that goes beyond methods of representation and media. The book is organized in four sections; syntax, perception, employ, and prospective. The essays are written by leading academics and professionals and the sections examine the role of computational tools in landscape architecture through case studies, historical accounts, theoretical arguments, and nascent propositions.

Captured Landscape - Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Kate Baker Captured Landscape - Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Kate Baker
R5,265 Discovery Miles 52 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together. It has a long and varied history, ranging from the early paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and as a stage for social display. The enclosed garden has continued to develop into its many modern forms: the city retreat, the redemptive garden, the deconstructed building. As awareness of climate change becomes increasingly important, the enclosed garden, which can mediate so effectively between interior and exterior, provides opportunities for sustainable design and closer contact with the natural landscape. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an outdoor room, or captured landscape; is it architecture or garden? Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contemporary architects by exploring influential historical examples and the concepts they generate, alongside some of the best of contemporary designs - brought to life with vivid photography and detailed drawings - taken primarily from Britain, the Mediterranean, Japan and North and South America. She argues that understanding the potential of the enclosed garden requires us to think of it as both a design and an experience. Captured Landscape provides a broad range of information and design possibilities for students of architectural and landscape design, practising architects, landscape designers and horticulturalists and will also appeal to a wider audience of all those who are interested in garden design. This second edition of Captured Landscape is enriched with new case studies throughout the book. The scope has now been broadened to include an entirely new chapter concerning the urban condition, with detailed discussions on issues of ecology, sustainability, economy of means, well-being and the social pressures of contemporary city life.

Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 (Hardcover): Briony Mcdonagh Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 (Hardcover)
Briony Mcdonagh
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 offers a detailed study of elite women's relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women's role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women's place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781409456025_oachapter2.pdf Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781409456025_oachapter3.pdf Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781409456025_oachapter4.pdf

Chiswick House Gardens - 300 years of creation and re-creation (Hardcover): David Jacques Chiswick House Gardens - 300 years of creation and re-creation (Hardcover)
David Jacques
R1,769 Discovery Miles 17 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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