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Agricultural Landscapes - Seeing Rural Through Design (Paperback)
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Agricultural Landscapes - Seeing Rural Through Design (Paperback)
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Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design follows on
from the author's previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and
Agriculture, to encourage using design thinking to provide greater
meaning and understanding of places where humans live and work with
the rural landscape. Rural areas around the world are often viewed
as special places with cultural, historical and natural
significance for people. Dewey Thorbeck emphasizes the importance
of these rural sites and their connections to urban areas through
full-color case studies of these places with particular emphasis on
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), as
identified by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, to document
and explore personal experiences, lessons learned, and implications
for the future. Rural landscapes are part of everyone's heritage,
and the book shows these connections and the unique GIAHS land use
systems and landscapes as models for a more sustainable and
prosperous rural and urban future. It includes practical examples
of working places where growing food, raising animals, or
harvesting from the sea has been the primary economy for centuries
to exhibit a clear and sustainable local relationship between
humans, animals, buildings, climate and place. Aimed at students,
teachers and professionals, this book investigates how design
thinking can be used to integrate rural and urban sites to shape
land use for more sustainable futures.
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