Author : Hannes Palang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402049900
Seasonality is so obvious that it is typically omitted from landscape research. It is expressed both in the natural rhythms of the landscape and in human lifestyles. This book opens new perspectives on how seasons are perceived by people and societies in different parts of the world, it offers interdisciplinary perspectives on seasonality research, and discusses its applications to planning.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1408879271
The natural world is a kaleidoscope of beautiful colours: from the bright pastels that signify the first buds of spring and the lush green of freshly cut summer grass to the rusty red copper of autumn leaves and the frosted white blanket of snow in winter. Bring nature to life in every season with this beautiful colouring book, published in partnership with the RSPB. What colour are the petals of the Michaelmas Daisies? What texture are the kingfisher's feathers? What fruit will the hedgehog nestle up in for hibernation? Flora Waycott's delicate black and white illustrations of birds, bugs, animals, flowers and more will take you on a creative journey of discovery through nature. So grab your colouring pencils and get started.
Author : John L. Motloch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2000-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471352914
Outstanding explorations of design concepts, principles, and processes This Second Edition of Introduction to Landscape Design offers even broader coverage of the environmental, human, technological, and aesthetic issues associated with landscape design than the first edition. Beginning with the way we perceive, manage, and design the landscape, it moves on to explore the forces that influence land design. An overview of landscape management, planning, and design includes a discussion of the roles and integration of the professions involved, modes of professional practice, and site scale design processes. The book explores the ecology of design and the integration of land design decisions into dynamic systems. This fully updated new edition: * Presents landscape design as a synergism of art and science * Addresses the interplay between buildings and sites * Provides insights into the breadth of people-environment relationships * Places special emphasis on our growing understanding of interrelationships between the landscape and human decisions A superb introduction for students as well as a useful reference for practicing professionals, this book is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of landscape design.
Author : Marc Antrop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9402411836
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.
Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 186108983X
In this wonderful collection of inspirational photographs, Peter Watson demonstrates how to photograph the seasonal aspects of a variety of landscapes throughout the year, with each month featured in an individual chapter. The whole of the UK and parts of Europe and America are covered, so the book has international appeal and named locations accompany each image, so the reader can visit and photograph the same places and compare results with the pictures in the book. The pros and cons of film versus digital photography are discussed and reviews of cameras and equipment most suitable for landscape photography are included. Various techniques are described throughout and illustrated by accompanying photographs. Caption information includes technical details of the camera, exposure, lens, shutter speed and filters used in the making of each image.
Author : Diedrich Bruns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3658042842
In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensitive issues and inclusion in practical planning.
Author : Bas Pedroli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004278079
This book is the result of three symposia of the Dutch Society for Landscape Ecology. The first symposium in 2005 was about the National Ecological Network in the Netherlands . The reason was that the implementation of the NEN, decided upon in 1990, was halfway. The second symposium, in 2006, was about urban ecology and the third one, to be held in 2007, will be about civil infrastructure. This book does not cover the conferences completely and new contributions are added. The three themes are important contexts in which landscape ecologists do their research and apply their knowledge and skills. Of course, there are many more subjects to hold conferences about, for example climate change, urbanisation, agriculture, landscape ecology itself etc. The focus of the conferences is on the Netherlands, with its urbanisation, intensive land use and water management as characteristic features. Although many WLO members do their work abroad or in an international context, these conferences offer a window on what happens in the Dutch context. The experiences may be of value for other contexts and that is why we present the results in English. The selected themes and the focus on the Dutch context are serious demarcations of what landscape ecology in the Netherlands is all about. The book does not represent all research and applications of landscape ecology.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004470093
The volume Landscapes of Affect and Emotion is the first book to present a dialogue on emotion, affect, landscape and embodiment between environmental humanities and landscape studies.
Author : Joshua Zeunert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317298772
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies. Landscape describes places as relationships and processes. Landscapes create people’s identities and guide their actions and their preferences, while at the same time are shaped by the actions and forces of people. Food, as currency, medium, and sustenance, is a fundamental part of those landscape relationships. This volume brings together over fifty contributors from around the world in forty profoundly interdisciplinary chapters. Chapter authors represent an astonishing range of disciplines, from agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, countryside management, cultural studies, ecology, ethics, geography, heritage studies, landscape architecture, landscape management and planning, literature, urban design and architecture. Both food studies and landscape studies defy comprehension from the perspective of a single discipline, and thus such a range is both necessary and enriching. The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is intended as a first port of call for scholars and researchers seeking to undertake new work at the many intersections of landscape and food. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview, a broad range of pertinent readings and references, and seeks to identify areas where new research is needed—though these may also be identified in the many fertile areas in which subjects and chapters overlap within the book.
Author : Hazel Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136337458
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these and other mobilities. The ritual, performative and embodied geographies of borderzones, non-places, transitional spaces, or ‘spaces in-between’ are often discussed in terms of the liminal, yet there have been few attempts to problematize the concept, or to rethink how ideas of the liminal might find critical resonance with contemporary developments in the study of place, space and mobility. Liminal Landscapes fills this void by bringing together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity within the context of tourism and mobility. The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies. It brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area. This timely intervention is the first collection to offer an interdisciplinary account of the intersection between liminality and landscape in terms of space, place and identity. It therefore charts new directions in the study of liminal spaces and mobility practices and will be valuable reading for range of students, researchers and academics interested in this field.
