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250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know (Hardcover): Cannon Ivers 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know (Hardcover)
Cannon Ivers
R1,000 R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Save R116 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What knowledge is indispensable for the landscape architect? The answers to this question are as diverse as landscape architecture itself. In this book 50 landscape architects from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia each give five responses. These include practitioners and teachers, young start-ups as well as internationally established firms. The publication illustrates the complex and dynamic nature of the discipline, and presents a diverse cross-section of the core expertise of this field. At the same time, it allows the reader to trace the individual attitudes into which geographical conditions, social contexts and political circumstances flow. Each of the 250 statements is presented on a double page and illustrated by a picture.

Sculpture and the Garden (Hardcover, New edition): Patrick Eyres Sculpture and the Garden (Hardcover, New edition)
Patrick Eyres
R4,533 Discovery Miles 45 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although the integration of sculpture in gardens is part of a long tradition dating back at least to antiquity, the sculptures themselves are often overlooked, both in the history of art and in the history of the garden. This collection of essays considers the changing relationship between sculpture and gardens over the last three centuries, focusing on four British archetypes: the Georgian landscape garden, the Victorian urban park, the outdoor spaces of twentieth-century modernism and the late-twentieth-century sculpture park. Through a series of case studies exploring the contemporaneous audiences of gardens, the book uncovers the social, political and gendered messages revealed by sculpture's placement and suggests that the garden can itself be read as a sculptural landscape.

Environmental Valuation - Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives (Paperback): John I Carruthers, Bill Mundy Environmental Valuation - Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives (Paperback)
John I Carruthers, Bill Mundy
R1,020 Discovery Miles 10 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural environment, attractive neighbourhood characteristics and high quality public goods and services, play a direct role in determining where people choose to live and how much they are willing to do so. Likewise, negative environmental conditions, such as contamination, influence the real estate markets and the 'value' of a region. Increasingly, regions become winners or losers based on the quality of life they offer their inhabitants. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book addresses the issues of environmental valuation, answering questions such as: What kinds of features matter? How large of an affect do they have? How do they affect the spatial distribution of the population? And how should the value that people place on their environment affect urban and regional policy?

Urban Ethic - Design in the Contemporary City (Hardcover): Eamonn Canniffe Urban Ethic - Design in the Contemporary City (Hardcover)
Eamonn Canniffe
R4,829 Discovery Miles 48 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the spatial character of the city. A brief survey of the history of urban development leads to the proposal of a methodology for the design of urban space, concentrating on the relationship of four elements: patterns, narratives, monuments and spaces.
The book addresses the current debate regarding urban regeneration through the proposal of a flexible framework for the analysis of urban context and the integration of new interventions to create sustainable cities. This work draws on the dual expertise of historical research and design experience.
Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines it lacks a theory which provides a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations. This book aims to provide a theoretical framework which looks beyond the style obsession of urban makeovers to the fundamental elements of city-making. The book will feature historical analysis, theoretical coherence, contemporary case studies, good illustrations and a physical context for citizenship.

Environmental Land Use Planning and Management (Hardcover): Alex Vedder Environmental Land Use Planning and Management (Hardcover)
Alex Vedder
R2,325 Discovery Miles 23 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Power of Planning - Spaces of Control and Transformation (Hardcover, 2001 ed.): Oren Yiftachel, Jo Little, David Hedgcock,... The Power of Planning - Spaces of Control and Transformation (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Oren Yiftachel, Jo Little, David Hedgcock, Ian Alexander
R3,087 Discovery Miles 30 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?." It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning. It shows that plans and policies often defy the commonly perceived role of advancing equality, justice, development and amenity, by causing social problems, marginalisation and inequalities. The book looks at planning from a critical distance, without a priori belief in its necessity or usefulness. The 12 chapters, written by renowned international scholars, demonstrate the multiplicity of social and political struggles over the contested terrain of spatial policies. The book focuses on four key areas where the impact of planning is explored: the community power, gender relations, ethnic tensions, and social polarisation, while comparing three societies: Australia, Israel and England.

Audience: This volume is mainly intended for faculty and students of academia, but also for urban professionals and policy-makers. The book is relevant to fields such as urban and regional planning, geography, political science, urban studies, urban sociology, urban anthropology, ethnic and gender relations.

Gardens Of Japan (Hardcover): Harada Gardens Of Japan (Hardcover)
Harada
R8,063 Discovery Miles 80 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This charming volume presents a rare opportunity to view the gardens of Meiji Japan from the inside, as seen through the eyes of an official of the Imperial Household in 1928. In Japan, the garden is considered a barometer of the nation's prosperity and character, and different periods in history have produced different kinds of gardens. Harada gives brief summaries of them all, including the Edo period (1603-1867), when professional gardeners first took over the design of gardens from priests, and reveals a few of the subtle distinctions that the Japanese use to distinguish between different kinds of gardens that appear identical to Western eyes. As a reaction to all things foreign, the gardens of the Meiji Restoration period (1868-1912), revived the earlier simpler "cha-no-yu" style of garden heavily influenced by Zen. Rare period photographs of famous parks and the now vanished gardens of Japanese aristocrats show gardens in a more naturalistic style than is common in Japan today.

Front to Back - A design agenda for urban housing (Paperback): Sally Lewis Front to Back - A design agenda for urban housing (Paperback)
Sally Lewis
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approach to achieving quality urban living. One of the key messages in this excellent book is that although beautiful buildings enrich our lives they do not exist in isolation. Richard Rogers, Richard Rogers Partnership, UK The case studies presented in this book are all unique but all share the same essential ingredients for success...Jon Rouse, The Housing Corporation, UK

Planning by Consent - The Origins and Nature of British Development Control (Hardcover): Philip Booth Planning by Consent - The Origins and Nature of British Development Control (Hardcover)
Philip Booth
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction. The Nature of Development Control. Forms of Control. Actors in the Process. The Themes of the Book. Chapter 2: The Origins of Development Control. Medieval Controls. The Development of Markets in Land and the Necessity of Landlord Control. The Extension of Public Controls. Leasehold Agreements and their Efforts. The Privatization of Public Control. The Administration of Control in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Chapter 3: The Failure of Leasehold Control and the Rise of Public Intervention. The Failure of the Leasehold System. Leasehold Reform. By-Law Control and the Extension of Public Control. The Weakness of By-Law Regulation. Chapter 4: Development Control in the Early Planning System. The 1909 Act: Control in the First Planning Schemes. Compensation and Betterment. The Maturing of the System in the 1920s. Circular 1305. Control Over Land-Use. The 1932 Act and Interim Development Control. Discretionary Power. Chapter 5: The 1947 Act: Universal Control of Development. The Purpose of Development Control in the 1947 act. The Nationalization of Development Rights. Compensation and Betterment. Development Control in the 1950s and 1960s. The Reform of the Development Plans System. The 1967 Management Study of Development Control. Chapter 6: The Call for Reforms: Development Control in the 1970s. Property Speculation 1970-73 and its Impact on Development Control. The Dobry Report. The 8th Report of the Expenditure Committee. Chapter 7: Development Control Under the Conservatives. Planning Control and Deregulation. Limiting Local Authority Power. Development Control in the Service of Economic Development. Local and National Policy: Plans v. Government Circulars. Planning Gain. Design Control. Development in the Green Belt. Chapter 8: Development Control in the 1990s: a Plan-Led System? The Planning and Compensation Acts and its Effects. Planning Obligations. The Role of Plans in Development Control. Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Future of Development Control. The Strengths and Weaknesses of British Development Control. Future Directions.

Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment (Paperback): Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Elaine Tierney, Charlotte Wildman Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment (Paperback)
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Elaine Tierney, Charlotte Wildman
R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories. By outlining and summarizing the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice on locating evidence and archives, the book supports researchers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a rich array of primary evidence and useful historiographical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This book is the ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines in the humanities encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time. -- .

Building the Post-War World (Hardcover): Nicholas Bullock Building the Post-War World (Hardcover)
Nicholas Bullock
R4,549 Discovery Miles 45 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern architecture in Britain. It charts the opportunities created by post-war rebuilding showing how the spirit of innovation and experimentation necessary to winning the war found applications in reconstruction. Above all it shows how hopes for a new and better world became linked to the fortunes of new architecture.

The Motorization of American Cities (Hardcover): David J. St.Clair The Motorization of American Cities (Hardcover)
David J. St.Clair
R2,841 Discovery Miles 28 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Traditional Urbanism Response to Climate Change - Walled City of Jaipur (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Anjali Krishan Sharma Traditional Urbanism Response to Climate Change - Walled City of Jaipur (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Anjali Krishan Sharma
R2,968 Discovery Miles 29 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions' of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology. The book is a rich collection of seven chapters and attempts to address each of the aspects and building further for traditional Urbanism. The book further explores the synergies of traditional urbanism for Climate change through climate responsive practices with main thrust on Energy use. The said understanding is validated through the case example of walled city of Jaipur: World Heritage Site 2019. The chapters enumerate how the traditional urbanism of Jaipur was designed that evolved as climate responsive typology for the respective geography.

Greening Cities - Forms and Functions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Puay Yok Tan, Chi Yung Jim Greening Cities - Forms and Functions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Puay Yok Tan, Chi Yung Jim
R5,328 Discovery Miles 53 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology. It includes contributions in which academics, public policy experts and practitioners share their considerable knowledge on the multi-faceted aspects of greening cities. The greening of cities has witnessed a global resurgence over the past two decades and has made a significant contribution to urban liveability and sustainability, as well as increasing resilience. As urban greening efforts continue to expand, it is useful to promote recent advances in our understanding of various aspects of planning, design and management of urban greenery, but at the same time, it is also important to realize that there are important gaps in our knowledge and that further research is needed. The book is organized in three main parts: concepts, functions and forms of urban greening. The first part examines the historical roots of greening cities and how the burgeoning field of urban ecology can contribute useful principles and strategies to guide the planning, design and management of urban greening. The second part shifts the focus to the diverse range of services - the functions - provided by urban greening, such as those related to urban climate, urban biodiversity, human health, and community building. The final part explores conventional, often neglected, but important forms of urban greenery such as urban woodlands and urban farms, as well as relatively recent forms of urban greenery like those integrated with buildings and waterways. It offers a ready reference resource for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to grasp the critical issues and trigger further studies and applications in the quest for high-performance green cities.

How to Read Towns and Cities - A Crash Course in Urban Architecture (Paperback): Jonathan Glancey How to Read Towns and Cities - A Crash Course in Urban Architecture (Paperback)
Jonathan Glancey
R479 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R57 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities from the dawn of civilisation to the present day. The fortunes of towns and cities rise and fall along with the fate of the civilisations to which they belong. Some are lost entirely, now no more than ruins; others have thrived as urban centres for millennia; and all contain vital clues embedded in their streets and skylines which reveal why their inhabitants grouped together, and tell of their unique social, political and cultural histories. Packed with plans, maps, and drawings, this book takes you on an international journey of discovery to explore the history of cities from our earliest urban origins to the contemporary world city - from Babylon to Beijing, London to Paris, and from the skyscrapers of New York to the streets of their own home town. A must-read for anyone interested in history, cities, and travel, this fascinating book turns you into an urban detective to see how our towns and cities grew the way they are.

Water-Related Urbanization and Locality - Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way... Water-Related Urbanization and Locality - Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Fang Wang, Martin Prominski
R4,173 Discovery Miles 41 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments. Against the backdrop of environmental changes, it addresses issues of water resource protection and sustainable development in China and Germany at different stages of urbanization, as well as relevant strategies and lessons learned. It focuses on three topics: balance between water environment protection and utilization in the urbanization process; sustainable use of water resources in the urbanization process; and water-related planning and design strategies in urbanization and local cultural development processes. In the context of water resources, China and Germany can learn from each other's experiences and can support one another in the fields of urbanization and locality. As such, the book brings together Chinese and Germans scientists from various disciplines, such as planning, geography, landscape, architecture, tourism, ecology, hydraulic engineering and history to provide a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective on the topic and examine the challenges and opportunities as well as the planning and design strategies to achieve sustainable, water-related urban spaces. By combining theoretical and practical approaches, it appeals to academics and practitioners around the globe.

Chinese Houses (Hardcover): Inn Chinese Houses (Hardcover)
Inn
R4,262 R1,704 Discovery Miles 17 040 Save R2,558 (60%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book when it first appeared was also well received by "House and Garden Architecture Forum" and "Landscape Architecture." "The handsome book will be a joy to possess for those who love beauty in architecture and cultivated nature," so wrote Pearl S. Buck. In 1940 Henry Inn of Honolulu, art collector, designer, and photographer, produced a collection of Chinese architectural pictures that is extraordinary.

Although probably the only record of its kind, many of the photographs were taken as recently as 1936. Of those locations very few remain if any. A veteran traveller to his ancestral homeland, Henry In had an extraordinarily wide set of acquaintances which gave him an entrance into some of the choicest homes and gardens throughout China. This combination of artistic shell and unusual opportunity are unique.

The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area - Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Paperback): Miodrag... The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area - Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Paperback)
Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Timothy Jachna
R1,161 R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Save R398 (34%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Emerging Public Space in\of the Pearl River Delta employs the applied work of twenty, international scholars and practitioners to discover new and emerging models of urban public space as it is emerging as both a condition and product of contemporary urbanization in the Pearl River Delta in China; 2. The proposed book deals specifically with urban public space whereas the vast majority of existing books on the contemporary Chinese urban condition subsume this topic into the general theme of urbanization or urban development 3. The proposed book focuses on the Pearl River Delta, which is acknowledged as an exceptional urban phenomenon in China and in the world, but for which an individualized scholarly treatment of public space is lacking 4. Unlike the existing literature on the Pearl River Delta, the proposed book is taking an explicitly design-centered perspective, making for a unique set of approaches and insights, grounded in scholarly rigor and juxtaposed with pieces from sociological angles.

Embodying Cape Town - Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Shannon M. Jackson Embodying Cape Town - Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Shannon M. Jackson
R3,731 Discovery Miles 37 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions: how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified? Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities?

Urban Planning in a Changing World - The Twentieth Century Experience (Hardcover): Robert Freestone Urban Planning in a Changing World - The Twentieth Century Experience (Hardcover)
Robert Freestone
R4,549 Discovery Miles 45 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning at the end of the millennium.

McAllen Architecture - A Visual Journey: By Pino Shah and Geoff Alger (Hardcover): Pino Shah, Geoff Alger McAllen Architecture - A Visual Journey: By Pino Shah and Geoff Alger (Hardcover)
Pino Shah, Geoff Alger; Designed by Carrie Rood
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (Paperback): Elizabeth Burton, Mike Jenks, Katie Williams Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (Paperback)
Elizabeth Burton, Mike Jenks, Katie Williams
R3,962 Discovery Miles 39 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.

Landscape Citizenships - Ecological, Watershed and Bioregional Citizenships (Paperback): Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, Ed Wall Landscape Citizenships - Ecological, Watershed and Bioregional Citizenships (Paperback)
Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, Ed Wall
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Landscape Citizenships, featuring work by academics from North America, Europe, and the Middle East, extends the growing body of thought and research in landscape democracy and landscape justice. Landscape, as a milieu of situated everyday practice in which people make places and places make people in an inextricable relation, is proving a powerful concept for conceiving of politics and citizenships as lived, dialogic, and emplaced. Grounded in discourses of ecological, environmental, watershed, and bioregional citizenships, this edited collection evaluates belonging through the idea of landscape as landship which describes substantive, mutually constitutive relations between people and place. With a strong international focus across 14 chapters, it delves into key topics such as marginalization, indigeneity, globalization, politics, and the environment, before finishing with an epilogue written by Kenneth R. Olwig. This volume will appeal to scholars and activists working in citizenship studies, migration, landscape studies, landscape architecture, ecocriticism, and the many disciplines which converge around these topics, from design to geography, anthropology, politics, and much more.

The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education (Hardcover): Diedrich Bruns, Stefanie Hennecke The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education (Hardcover)
Diedrich Bruns, Stefanie Hennecke
R5,778 Discovery Miles 57 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The proposed book maintains the strengths of interdisciplinary and international perspectives. It improves upon relating titles from planning and design fields, as its chapters build upon evidence based studies of education history. Unlike other books and papers published to date, the proposed book gives insights into the roles that educators, education approaches and methods, schools and curricula have and will have for generations of landscape practitioners, researchers and scholars.

Social Town Planning (Hardcover): Clara Greed Social Town Planning (Hardcover)
Clara Greed
R1,607 Discovery Miles 16 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many issues such as access for the disabled, childcare facilities, environmental matters, and ethnic minority issues are excluded from town planning considerations by planning authorities. This book shows the concept of "social town planning" to integrate planning policy and practices with the cultural and social issues of the people they are planning for. The first part provides background on the development of a social dimension to the predominantly physical, land use based, British town planning system. It then goes on to investigate a representative selection of minority planning topics, in respect of gender, race, age and disability, cross-linked to the implications for mainstream policy areas such as housing, rural planning and transport. The book also discusses the likely influence of a range of global and European policy initiatives and organisations in changing the agenda of British town planning. Planning for healthy cities, sustainability, social cohesion, and equity are discussed. It then looks at "the problem" from a cultural perspective, arguing that a great weakness in the British system, resulting in ugly and impractical urban design, has been the lack of concern am

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