John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner


Book Description

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of an Urban Reformer, 1869-1902 -- 2. Landscape Architect, 1902-1905 -- 3. Charlotte, Letchworth, and Savannah, 1905-1907 -- 4. City Planner, 1907-1908 -- 5. City Planning in America and Europe, 1908-1911 -- 6. Model Suburbs and Industrial Villages, 1909-1918 -- 7. Kingsport and Mariemont, 1919-1926 -- 8. Florida, 1922-1931 -- 9. The Dean of American City Planning, 1931-1937 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.




Landscape Planning


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This reprint, originally published in 1983, draws attention to the important lines of thought that have emerged during the past several decades to offer a portrait of contemporary physical geography which have been drawn together in this text. It introduces conventional terms and topics of the subject and weaves them into a conceptual fabric that rests on three major themes, including the energy-balance concept; a model for understanding the forces and processes in the landscape; the stress-threshold concept; the relationship between the stress produced by forces such as wind and water and the resistance of the earth's materials; and the magnitude and frequency of change in the landscape. Chapter summaries are featured along with numerous illustrations.




Landscape-ecological Planning LANDEP


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This book provides a comprehensive description of the landscape-ecological planning system LANDEP, and introduces the methodical procedure. LANDEP was developed at the Institute of Landscape Ecology of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and has been applied in various planning processes at home and abroad. Despite the fact that the LANDEP methodology was defined in 1979, the methodological content, sequence of procedures and the application of concept in practice are still valid. The first two steps – analyses and syntheses – have the nature of fundamental research and result in the design and characteristics of complex landscape-ecological-spatial units. The final two steps – evaluations and proposals – address the needs of planning practice. The intermediate step – interpretations – has the character of applied research and forms the arguments and criteria for the assessment of landscape for its utilisation by humans.




Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development


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"Since the emergence of climate and global warming onto the international agenda, research in sustainability has been underpinned by the development in energy and environmental science. Highlighted 30 years ago by the Brundtland Commission, "sustainable development" was defined as: meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This has very much defined the scope and aims of this conference. This conference proceedings book contains the selected papers presented in the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD2015) held in September 25-27, 2015, in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The conference positions itself as an international forum for researchers all over the world to come together to share and discuss their findings and contributions in all aspects of sustainability; including theory, methodology and applications covering a wide spectrum of topics and issues. The conference proceedings put together a total of 119 papers in sustainable development, covering issues in environmental, energy, and economical aspects of the subjects."--Provided by publisher




Planning Landscape


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Offers planners a practical guide to achieving balance between general planning standards, parameters for different types of open space, and the particular use-related requirements of the specific planning task..Compiles and summarizes dimensions, measurements and threshold values that are crucial to the decision-making process in designing a space.




Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services


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Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human’s benefit. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. Particular threats exist to those public goods whose values are not well-represented in markets or whose deterioration will only affect future generations. As market forces alone are not sufficient, effective means for local and regional planning are needed in order to safeguard scarce natural resources, coordinate land uses and create sustainable landscape structures. This book argues that a solution to such challenges in Europe can be found by merging the landscape planning tradition with ecosystem services concepts. Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of natural assets and human well-being more explicit. It can also provide an economic perspective, focused on individual preferences and benefits, which helps validate the acceptability of environmental planning goals. Thus linking landscape planning and ecosystem services provides a two-way benefit, creating a usable science to meet the needs of local and regional decision making. The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21st century Europe.




Landscape Performance


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Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned McHargarian project (The Woodlands town development) through quantitative and qualitative methods. Including 44 black and white illustrations, Landscape Performance systematically documents the performance benefits of the environmental, social, and economic aspects of The Woodlands project. It delves into McHarg’s planning success in The Woodlands in comparison with adjacent Houston developments, which demonstrated urban resilience after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lastly, it identifies the ingredients of McHarg’s ability to do real and permanent good. Yang also includes a number of appendices which provide valuable information on the methods of assessing performance in landscape development. This book would be beneficial to academics and students of landscape architecture and planning with a particular interest in Ian McHarg.




Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism


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As cities continue to grow with advancing technologies, the spatial and temporal gaps between rural and urban areas are shrinking, thereby requiring the sectors to interact with each other. While the prospect is to develop each area without hampering the newfound synergy between them, there are still many barriers and concerns that hinder this inevitable urban-rural relationship. The Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism is a pivotal reference source that focuses on the applications and challenges of creating cooperation between urban and rural areas along various fields. While highlighting topics including suburbanization, weekend-residence zones, and homeostasis, this publication is ideally designed for architects, sector managers, region developers, urban planners, urban developers, construction managers, urban studies professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on lessening the urban-rural gap in both global and local contexts.




Research in Landscape Architecture


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Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is essential to draw meaningful conclusions and robust answers to research questions. Research in Landscape Architecture provides guidance on the rationales needed for selecting methods and offers direction to help to frame and design academic research within the discipline. Over the last couple of decades the traditional orientation in landscape architecture as a field of professional practice has gradually been complemented by a growing focus on research. This book will help you to develop the connections between research, teaching and practice, to help you to build a common framework of theory and research methods. Bringing together contributions from landscape architects across the world, this book covers a broad range of research methodologies and examples to help you conduct research successfully. Also included is a study in which the editors discuss the most important priorities for the research within the discipline over the coming years. This book will provide a definitive path to developing research within landscape architecture.




ICAR 2015 - ABSTRACTS


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International Conference on Architectural Research - ICAR 2015 RESEARCH THROUGH ARCHITECTURE ISSN 2393 - 4433 ISSN-L 2393 - 4433 Descrierea CIP a Bibliotecii Naţionale a României Re[search] through architecture / ed.: conferenţiar dr. arh. Andra Panait. - Bucureşti : Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”, 2015. – (International Conference on Architectural Research - ICAR 2015, ISSN 2393-4433, ISSN L-2393-4433) ISBN 978-606-638-112-3 I. Panait, Andra (ed.) 72 Graphic design: Andra Panait We acknowledge the help in preparing this volume to the following peoples: assoc.prof. Daniel Comşa, Arch.PhD; assoc.prof. Elena-Codina Duşoiu, arch.PhD; assoc.prof. Francoise Pamfil, arch.PhD; lecturer Marina Mihăilă, Arch.PhD; assist. Daniel ARMENCIU, Arch.PhD, assist. Oana DIACONESCU, Arch.PhD; assist. Mihaela ZAMFIR, Arch.PhD; assist. Raluca BOROŞ, Arch.PhD student. © “Ion Mincu” Publishing House Bucharest Introduction Under the title theme Re[Search] through Architecture, ICAR 2015 proposes a debate of the subject defining some new principles of nowadays architectural design. In the XXI-st century, in searching of a “style”, after Postmodernism, it is considered that new architecture based on algorithms and parameters may offer new senses of space continuity and legibility. In opposite, the contextualist and phenomenologist movements consider this approach as a formal and fragile tendency, culturally un-sustained and which won’t prove its consistence in time as utopist and futurist did. Topics like new avant-garde movement, stylistic searching, anachronistically architecture, space continuities and correspondences, lived architecture or experimental manifesto projects, the evolving of geometries, urban continuities or classical defragmentation, functional zoning, social impact scenarios, space formalization, aesthetic and symbolic design values, authentically or new built archaeology, sustainable design etc. will be presented and debated under three main sections: Traditional versus Computational, Innovation and Experiment, Archive – Utopia – Events. Built / Unbuilt. Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania COMMITTEES General Chair Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Local arrange chair Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Visual Identity, Publications Coordinator Assoc.Prof. Andra PANAIT, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania SECTIONS 1. Traditional versus Computational Chair: Assoc.Prof. Elena Codina DUŞOIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Assist.Prof. Oana DIACONESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest 2. Innovation and Experiment Chair: Assoc.Prof. Françoise PAMFIL, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Lecturer Marina MIHĂILĂ, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest 3. Archive – Utopia – Events. Built / Unbuilt Chair: Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Assist.Prof. Mihaela ZAMFIR, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Assist.Prof. Daniel ARMENCIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assist.Prof. Raluca BOROŞ, Arch, PhD student, UAUIM, Bucharest SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof. Byeong-Joon KANG, Arch, PhD, INJE University -Ghimbae, South Corea Assoc.Prof. João MENEZES DE SEQUEIRA, Arch, Head of Architectural Department, Ulusofona, Lisbon, Portugal Prof. Antonino SAGGIO, Arch, PhD, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Assoc.Prof. Maria VOYATZAKI, Arch, PhD, School of Architecture of Aristotle Univer¬sity of Thessaloniki, Greece Assoc.Prof. Cosmin CACIUC, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Codina DUŞOIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Cristina ENACHE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Ştefan GHENCIULESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Celia GHYKA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Prof. Augustin IOAN, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Zina MACRI, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Anca MITRACHE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Françoise PAMFIL, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Gabriel PASCARIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Alexandru PETRIŞOR, Ecol., PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Monica RĂDULESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Claudiu RUNCEANU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Prof. Ana Maria ZAHARIADE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Juan P. HINESTROZA, Assoc.Prof., Director of The Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory, College of Human Ecology of Cornell University, USA. Karin HOFERT FEIX, Arch., Profesor Titular E.U., Department of Architectural Design, Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB, Politechnical University of Catalunya UPC, Spain Romolo MARTEMUCCI, Arch., PhD, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Director of Pennsylvania State University - Sede di Roma; President of Pantheon Institute, Rome; President of Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia, Rome, Italy João MENEZES DE SEQUEIRA, Arch, PhD, MsC, Assoc.Prof., Head of Architectural Department, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal Zuhal ULUSOY, Arch., PhD, Professor, Dean of Faculty of Art and Design, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Maria VOYATZAKI, Arch, PhD, Assoc.Prof., School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece