Livable Landscape Design
Author : John F. Collins
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : John F. Collins
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Rick Darke
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604697393
“This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence.” —The New York Times Books Review Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.
Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610910915
The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals. The Living Landscape offers • a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation • more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities • scores of checklists and step-by-step guides • hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues • coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards • more than 150 illustrations. As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.
Author : Sue Reed
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0865716536
Save money and energy while adding natural beauty to your home.
Author : Steve Bender
Publisher : Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780376038777
This volume takes readers on a tour through the latest concepts in landscaping ideas. Editors have included 600 full-color photos for inspiration, plus a 100-page gallery of Southern gardens and a section of step-by-step garden projects and innovative
Author : Patrick Whitefield
Publisher : Permanent Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781856230438
"Being able to 'read' the landscape whilst on a walk makes a huge difference. It is like suddenly seeing the world in colour after being used to a lifetime of black and white. The Living Landscape looks in detail at landscape formation: from rocks, through soil to vegetation and the intricate web of interactions between plants, animals, climate and the people that makes the landscape around us. Each chapter is interspersed with diagrams, sketches and notes that Patrick has taken over two decades of living and working in the countryside. Patrick will inspire you to reconnect with the land as a living entity, not a collection of different scenery, and develop an active relationship with nature and the countryside. This book invites you to actively engage with nature and experience it first hand. Understanding how landscapes evolve is a useful skill for landscape designers, farmers, gardeners and smallholders but it is also a life-enhancing skill all of us can enjoy. Patrick offers us the enduring pleasure that costs nothing and yet offers everything." -- Publisher's description
Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520246829
A beautifully illustrated consideration of the life and career of modernist landscape architect Garrett Eckbo.
Author : Cornell University
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Liat Margolis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764377003
The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. These materials include biodegradable geotextiles, super-absorbent polymers, and plants that react to changing soil conditions. This book presents the available materials and technologies in the context of practical applications.
Author : Clare Cumberlidge
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9780500342336
For many years planning was something done in the name of progress by distant committees. In the past decade, however, heavy-handed ideology has given way to a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - who seek fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise and success of this new global sensibility. With important lessons and invaluable ideas for architects, planners and landscape designers around the world, this book - set to be the volume that establishes the agenda for going forward - is just as essential for anyone interested in the future of our countryside and cities.