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Book SynopsisAddresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types.

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Book SynopsisEvery family can have a garden. -Liberty Hyde BaileyFinally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influential literary gardener of the twentieth century have been brought together in one book. Philosopher, poet, naturist, educator, agrarian, scientist, and garden-lover par excellence Liberty Hyde Bailey built a reputation as the Father of Modern Horticulture and evangelist for what he called the garden-sentimentthe desire to raise plants from the good earth for the sheer joy of it and for the love of the plants themselves. Bailey''s perennial call to all of us to get outside and get our hands dirty, old or young, green thumb or no, is just as fresh and stirring today as then.Full of timeless wit and grace, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener''s Companion collects essays and poems from Bailey''s many books on gardening, as well as from newspapers and magazines from the era. Whether you''ve been gardening for decades or are searching for yTrade ReviewThis earnest collection will likely introduce Bailey's name to a new generation of gardeners and reacquaint older ones with the ideas of a justly celebrated master. * Publishers Weekly *Bailey's writing reflects his deep desire to educate... because he so wanted to share the joy he felt for plants and gardening with anyone who would listen. The book will be relished by gardeners, both novice and experienced, who will smile and nod knowingly at Bailey's descriptions of the smell of newly-turned soil, the miracle of watching a see sprout, or the feeling of pure contentment a garden can bring. * The American Gardener *Table of ContentsGeneral Advice To One Who Hath No Garden The Common Natural History The Importance of Seeing Correctly A Reverie of Gardens The Feeling for Plants Planting a Plant Gardening and Its Future Undertone The Miracle How to Make a Garden: The First Lesson The Home Garden How to Make a Garden: Digging in the Dirt The Growing of Plants by Children: The School-Garden 307 The Spirit of the Garden Oak The Principles of Pruning The Weather What Is a Weed? White Clover Blossoms The Symbolism of Flowers Extrinsic and Intrinsic Views of Nature The Flower-Growing Should Be Part of the Design Annuals: The Best Kinds and How to Grow Them Campanula The Admiration of Good Materials The Subject The Growing of the Vegetable Plants The Fruit-Garden Peach Where There Is No Apple Tree Apple-Year The Garden Flows The New Year The Dandelion The Apple-Tree in the Landscape from Lessons of To-day Leaves The Garden of Gourds Lesson I.: The Pumpkin November: June An Outlook on Winter Midwinter Greenhouse in the Snow The Garden of Pinks December Marvels at Our Feet Society of the Holy Earth The Garden Fence

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Book SynopsisEstablished in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and as an economic testing ground and launchpad for tropical plantation agriculture around the world. Underlying each of these stories is the broader narrative of theBotanic Gardens an arena where power and the natural world meet and interact, a story that has impact far beyond the boundaries of its grounds.Initially conceived to exploit nature for the benefit of empire, the Gardens were part of a symbolic struggle by administrators, scientists, and gardeners to assert dominance within Southeast Asia’s tropical landscape, reflecting shifting understandings of power, science and nature among local administrators and distant mentors in Britain. With the independence of Singapore, the Gardens has had to find a new role, first in the “greening” of post-independence Singapore, and now as Singapore’s first World Heritage Site.Setting the Singapore gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and botanic gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature’s colony — a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.Trade Review"Barnard’s recounting of the complex history of the Singapore Botanic Gardens and its shifting priorities and agendas over time provide a window onto the transformation of a colonial port into a 21st-century botanical garden and research institution and Singapore’s first World Heritage Site." — Huntia: A Journal of Botanical History, 16.2 (2018)

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Book SynopsisDesigned Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. Being an informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project.Organised and presented in 12 sections based on project type, each project is examined based on date, previous site condition, designer(s), design intentions, current composition, unique features, ownership and management, and comparable projects. Each chapter offers an insightful critique of the featured projects.Written by the authors of Great City Parks, the book posits that these carefully selected key projects have maintained their status throughout the ages because they express values and design intentions that continue to inform the practice of the landscape architecture in the present day. The book concludes with a ten-point summary of lessons for professional practice gleaned from the studies.Including a wide range of case studies from countries including many in western Europe, the United States, Canada, India, Japan and China, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, the book is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the history and current practice of landscape architecture. Table of Contents1. Water 1.1 Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Viterbo, Italy – Terraced water garden 1.2 Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir, India – Moghal pleasure garden 1.3 Miroir d’eau, Bordeaux, France – Water feature / focus of urban regeneration 2. Landform 2.1 Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA – Terraced hillside garden 2.2 Parc Diderot, Courbevoie, France – Plunging landform 2.3 Northala Fields, Ealing, London – Conical roadside earthworks 3. Plant Collections 3.1 Villandry, Indre-et-Loire, France – Renaissance château garden + potager extraordinaire 3.2 Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, England – Manor house garden 4. Enclosed Spaces 4.1 Courtyards of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain – Moorish courtyards 4.2 Wang Shi Yuan, Suzhou, PR China – Classical Chinese garden 4.3 Paley Park, East 53rd Street, New York, USA – Pocket park 5. Private Gardens 5.1 Entsu-ji, Kyoto, Japan – Zen monastery garden 5.2 Miller Garden, Columbus, Indiana, USA – Domestic garden 5.3 Little Sparta, Stonypath, Lanarkshire, Scotland – Concrete poet’s garden 6. Commemorative Landscapes 6.1 Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA – Rural cemetery 6.2 Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden – Forest cemetery 6.3 Kennedy Memorial, Runnymede, Surrey, England – Memorial to president of United States 7. Private Parkland 7.1 Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, France – Baroque chateau garden 7.2 Rousham Park, Oxfordshire, England – Arcadian parkland 7.3 Bloedel Forest Reserve, Washington State, USA – Forest reserve 7.4 Kröller-Müller Sculpture Garden, Netherlands – Sculpture garden 8. City Parks 8.1 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, France – City park on restored site 8.2 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA – American pastoral city park 8.3 Landschaftspark, Duisburg-Nord, Germany – Post industrial city park 9. Campuses 9.1 Academical Village, University of Virginia, USA – University campus 9.2 St Catherine’s College, Oxford, England – University college campus 9.3 Deere & Company World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, USA – Corporate headquarters 9.4 Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada – Government precinct 10. Linear Landscapes 10.1 Grand Rounds, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – Urban parkway 10.2 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina, USA – Rural parkway / national park 10.3 Promenade Samuel de-Champlain, Quebec City, Canada – Riverfront boulevard 11. Housing Landscapes 11.1 Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, USA – Garden suburb 11.2 Lafayette Park, Detroit, USA – Inner city housing 12. Urban Landscapes 12.1 Pienza, Val d’Orcia, Italy – Renaissance urbanism / medieval townscape 12.2 Savannah Wards and Squares, Georgia, USA – Enlightenment urbanism 12.3 Place Stanislas and Place de la Carrière, Nancy, France – Enlightenment civic design 12.4 Edinburgh New Town, Scotland – Georgian city extension

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Book SynopsisIn the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume. Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others, to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site and design theory.Trade Review"Site Matters is serious scholarship on an urgent topic. Site is so much more than landscape—it is a concept loaded with social and political meaning, imbued with narrative that needs to be revealed and understood if we are to address climate change—and now global pandemics—in a resourceful way. This reader provides an essential and plausible foundation for tapping that intelligence."Emily Talen, University of Chicago"This innovative and now fully updated set of short essays invites reflection on the meaning of the site as a focal point for the design imagination. The collection provides a uniquely fine-grained and polyphonic vantage point for the enrichment of urban discourse in uncertain times."Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge"Site Matters predicted a relational and contingent trajectory for architecture. Its assertive wake-up call implied that design disciplines, including my own, had insufficiently theorized how site circumstances shape project outcomes. The authors were right. I welcome this new work for its even broader transdisciplinary reach and its frank embrace of earth-bound realities we dare not overlook."Gary Hilderbrand, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand"The original edition of Site Matters was pioneering in its multidisciplinary approach. This new edition further widens the lens, reflecting the complexity and uncertainty of the times in which we live, and the scale of the challenges we face, particularly the climate crisis. Kahn and Burns, and their diverse roster of contributors, are again ahead of the curve, searching—with deliberation and urgency—for the way forward."Deborah Berke, Dean, Yale School of ArchitectureTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Andrea Kahn Why Site Matters Carol J. Burns and Andrea KahnClaiming the Site: Ever Evolving Social-Legal Conceptions of Ownership and Property Harvey Jacobs Reclaiming Context: Between Autonomy and Engagement Esin Komez-Daglioglu Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture Elizabeth Meyer Site Specific or Site Responsive Interview with Denise Markonish Carol J. Burns Groundwork Robin Dripps Landscape Processes as Site Context Simon DixonIn the Anthropocene Site Matters In Four Ways Dirk Sijmons Shifting Sites Kristina Hill Adaptive Systems: Environment, Site and BuildingCarol J. Burns Translating Sites: A Plea for Radicant Design Lisa Diedrich Defining Urban Sites: Towards Ecotone-Thinking for an Urbanizing WorldAndrea Kahn Sites, Stories, Representations, Citizens Jane Wolff Urban site as Collective Knowledge Thaisa WayFrom Place to Site Robert BeauregardNeighborhoods Apart: Site/Non-Sight and Suburban Apartments Paul M. HessFrom Gerrymandering to Co-mandering: Re-drawing the lines Peter MarcuseAfterwords What does site look like to …Neil Brenner Naomi Darling Anne Haynes Claudia Herasme Natalie Mahowald James Musser Judith Nitsch Jeremy Till Janet EchelmanList of Contributors Figure Credits Index

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Book SynopsisNeighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative of internal reserves.The distinctive planned spaces are typically enclosed on every side, hidden within residential blocks, serving as local pocket parks and reflecting the evolving values of community life from the garden city movement to contemporary new urbanism. This book resuscitates the enclosed, almost secretive reserve from history as a distinctive form of local open space whose problems and potentialities are relevant to many other green community spaces. In so doing, it opens up even wider connections between localism and globalism, the past and the future, and for connecting community initiatives to broader global challenges of cohesion, health, food, and climate change. This fully illustrated book charts the outcomes and implications of this evolution across several continents, injecting human stories of civic initiatives, struggles and triumphs along the way.Community Green will be of interest to a wide readership interested in studying, managing and improving the quality of all small open spaces in the urban landscape.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Making the ‘superblock’ 1890-1915 2. Essential elements? The 1920s 3. Diffusion, diffraction, debate, decline and discovery: 1930-1960 4. The in-between realm: the 1960s and 70s 5. New Urbanism and new ways forward: 1980 to today 6. Remake, remodel, reimagine

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Book SynopsisConceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture. It questions where and, more importantly, how the process of design starts. The book deconstructs the steps of conceptualizing design in order to reignite pedagogical discussions about timing and design fundamentals, and to reveal how the spark of an idea happens from a range of unique perspectives. Through a careful arrangement of visual essays that integrate analog, digital, and mixed-media works and processes, the book highlights differences between diverse techniques and triggers debate between design, representation, technology, and creative culture in the field. Taken together, the book's visual investigation of the conceptual design process serves as a learning tool for aspiring designers and sTrade Review"How do we initiate the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes frustrating, sometimes daunting process of creativity that leads from inception through iteration and interrogation to a coherent and lush and functional design? Simon Bussiere and his colleagues from teaching institutions around the world probe the depths of this question for landscape architecture students and emerging professionals—and even the more seasoned among us—exploring not one or two but a multitude of starting points for the creative process. In doing so, Bussiere offers us insights into the critical minds of leading academics—giving us a clear and comprehensive sense of the state of the contemporary academy. More importantly, however, the sheer diversity of approaches invites young and aspiring designers into the conversation, begging for them to write the next chapters of design teaching as they explore their own individualized and situated understandings of the world today. A remarkable collection for those interested in understanding how new ideas are born."Chris Reed, FASLA, Founding Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design"The design "concept," and the mysteries of how conceptualization ossifies is always a profound topic among beginning design students and among seasoned practitioners. What Simon expertly curates in Conceptual Landscapes is a series of essays that unpack a plurality of approaches to concept generation. Importantly, the manuscript highlights the humanity in design and makes the case for promoting a diversity of voices in the design professions in an age where society is often looking for technologies and metrics to solve complex problems. Conceptual Landscapes will serve as an important text for beginning design students and those interested in the formation of landscape design ideas for years to come."Bradley Cantrell, FAAR, ASLA, Chair and Professor in Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture"What I appreciate most about Simon Bussiere's approach to the topic of ‘conceptualization’ is his understanding that ideas are found in myriad experiences, sources and processes, from individual to the collective consciousness. He has assembled the knowledge base and reflections of significant practitioners and academics to explore the realm of creativity, and how that informs how landscapes are written and read. This publication will surely be on every burgeoning landscape architect’s ‘must read’ list."David A. Rubin, FASLA, Founding Principal, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective"Clearly, Bussiere delights in the ‘ephemeral, sporadic, recursive, and bewildering’ nature of the creative process. Fortunately for readers, he has assembled here a diverse and charismatic array of landscape architecture professors and practitioners, whose approaches and methods embody the endless possibilities of conceptualizing landscapes. Readers are likely to leave this volume more humble yet more courageous designers."Timothy A. Schuler, Contributing Editor, Landscape Architecture MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Spark of an Idea Excavating Ideas Elizabeth Mossop Obsessions Emma Mendel Composite Drawings + Landscape Ideations Karen Lutsky Pictorial Cartography and Digital Printmaking: Experiments in Representing the Working Landscape Forbes Lipschitz Materiality as Inquiry: Environmental History for Enacting New Worlds Sara Jacobs Developing Concepts Scott Jennings Melbourne Critical Making Emily Vogler Part 2: Concept in Translation Materializing Atmospheres: Translating the Immaterial Zaneta Hong Tacit Concepts Ferdinand Ludwig & Sergio Sanna Sediment in Process: designing an active channel for Alameda Creek Justine Holzman & Rob Holmes Grounding the Site: Uncovering Concepts in the Landscape Architecture Design Process Mary Pat McGuire From Ideas to Design Actions Yun Hye Hwang Translations between Patent Innovation and Environmental Design Pedagogy Richard Hindle Part 3: Forming Futures Designing Parks – The Art of Creating Lively Places Leonard Grosch Disrupted Futures: The Rise of Speculative Digital Landscape Simulation in Conceptual Design. Aidan Ackerman Landscape: "For Illustration Purposes Only" Fadi Masoud Conceptualizing the Design of Fluid Geographies Kees Lokman UX for Landscape Architects: A New Paradigm for Conceptual Design Andrea HansenAfterword: A concept, in five partsSimon Bussiere

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Book SynopsisBiophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement. It considers the ways that we interact with our environments, presenting a comprehensive account of how people negotiate and use the urban landscape. Set within current debates concerning urban futures, societal issues, sustainable cities, health and well-being, the book explores our innate need for contact with the natural world through biophilic design thinking to expand our knowledge base and promote a wider understanding of the importance of these interactions on our collective well-being. It responds to questions such as, what are the urban qualities that support our well-being? As an urbanised society what are the environmental determinants that promote healthy and satisfying lifestyles? Beginning with an overview of cTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Multi-Dimensions of Environmental Engagement 2. Exploring Biophilia 3. Pathways, Nature Placings and Green Infrastructure 4. Choreography of the Landscape Experience 5. Biophilia as an Embodied Experience: The Emotional Dimension and Agency of the Arts 6. Listening into Nature: Exploring Children’s Biophilic Experiences of Urban Wild-Spaces 7. Urban Food Growing as a Biophilic Pathway 8. Moving from Theory to Practice: Approaches and Parameters 9. Case Studies 10. Biophilically Focussed Environmental Aesthetic

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This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces. The introduced CityPlayFramework (CPF) is a practical urban analysis tool that allows urban designers, landscape architects and researchers to develop a shared awareness when opening up this window of possibility for adventure. Two case studies substantiate and illustrate the development process and testing of the framework in Canberra, Australia, and Potsdam, Germany. The appropriation of public spaces that transcend boundaries can facilitate an intrinsic connection between people and their immediate environment, towards a more joyful ontological state of human existence in which imagination, co-creation and a sense of agency are key elements of the design approach. The framework presents an alternative understanding of public spaces and public life, reflecting on theory and its implications for practice in a post-pandemic world in dense urban centres.

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Book SynopsisHow do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should you choose for your client''s contractor? This refreshingly down-to-earth introduction to the vast subject of landscape design and construction answers all these questions, guiding new students through the many facets of professional practice and welding together the artistic, legal, financial, environmental and management issues which can seem so dauntingly disconnected. Illustrated with original drawings, photographs, sample plans and facsimiles, including a new colour plate section, this readable classic has been fully revised and updated throughout. It opens with a completely new chapter which explains design and aesthetic principles, explores the history of our relationship to landscapeTrade ReviewReviews of the first edition: ’...an easily digestible book with a lot of interesting content...I recommend it.’ Desmond Sivell, Sheffield University, UK ’A very informative read...I am most impressed by this wonderful book...The well thought out and up-to-date theories on design make this a truly ground breaking book. I look forward to visiting some of the author's schemes to see just how he has put some of this excellent theory into practice. A sharp, well illustrated and often very witty insight into front garden design, well done James Blake!’ Giles Hill ’This book is a must for any student or young designer because it actually deals with the absolute basics of how to draw and what to use...James Blake's approach is thorough and honest - tackle and master the rudiments before going on to the more sophisticated...Overall, James Blake has produced a very useful book in its category and it will go a long way to help students and young designers.’ Landscape DesignTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; A brief history of landscape and garden design; The role of the landscape designer; Design philosophy and aesthetic principles; The design process; Client liaison, questionnaires and site appraisal; Land survey; Landscape character; Hard landscape design; Soft landscape design; Evaluating and using the site information; Children’s play; Progressing concepts to final drawings; Cost estimating and tender documentation; Tendering the contract documents; Contracts and contract preparation; Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015; Contract administration; Graphic presentation, drafting equipment and plan printing; Drawing principles; Drawing arrangement; Drawing for different purposes; General design practice management; The cost effectiveness of a guiding philosophy and other useful points of reference; Further reading; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should you choose for your client''s contractor? This refreshingly down-to-earth introduction to the vast subject of landscape design and construction answers all these questions, guiding new students through the many facets of professional practice and welding together the artistic, legal, financial, environmental and management issues which can seem so dauntingly disconnected. Illustrated with original drawings, photographs, sample plans and facsimiles, including a new colour plate section, this readable classic has been fully revised and updated throughout. It opens with a completely new chapter which explains design and aesthetic principles, explores the history of our relationship to landscapeTrade ReviewReviews of the first edition: ’...an easily digestible book with a lot of interesting content...I recommend it.’ Desmond Sivell, Sheffield University, UK ’A very informative read...I am most impressed by this wonderful book...The well thought out and up-to-date theories on design make this a truly ground breaking book. I look forward to visiting some of the author's schemes to see just how he has put some of this excellent theory into practice. A sharp, well illustrated and often very witty insight into front garden design, well done James Blake!’ Giles Hill ’This book is a must for any student or young designer because it actually deals with the absolute basics of how to draw and what to use...James Blake's approach is thorough and honest - tackle and master the rudiments before going on to the more sophisticated...Overall, James Blake has produced a very useful book in its category and it will go a long way to help students and young designers.’ Landscape DesignTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; A brief history of landscape and garden design; The role of the landscape designer; Design philosophy and aesthetic principles; The design process; Client liaison, questionnaires and site appraisal; Land survey; Landscape character; Hard landscape design; Soft landscape design; Evaluating and using the site information; Children’s play; Progressing concepts to final drawings; Cost estimating and tender documentation; Tendering the contract documents; Contracts and contract preparation; Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015; Contract administration; Graphic presentation, drafting equipment and plan printing; Drawing principles; Drawing arrangement; Drawing for different purposes; General design practice management; The cost effectiveness of a guiding philosophy and other useful points of reference; Further reading; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces, often established on land previously owned by aristocracy, royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizensâ physical and psychological well-being (e.g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today, large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities, this biodiversity may represent high cultural, recreational and aesthetic values, but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being, for example by reducing the urban heat islTrade Review"The book is absolutely unique and should be the standard reference on this important subject for years ahead."—Richard T. T. Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology Emeritus, Harvard University"Read it, I am sure it will inspire you to care for and share the green treasures of your cities!"—Håkan Wirtén, Secretary General, WWF Sweden"This book details the much needed evidence, the pathways and the vision for future livable more resilient cities where Large Urban Parks are at the core."—Thomas Elmqvist, Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm UniversityTable of Contents1. Visions of Urban Green2. Quality of Life3. Ecosystem Services4. Social Cohesion5. City Meets Nature6. Heritage and Identity7. Design for All

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Book SynopsisSince 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 peopleâs 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 neededâthough these may also be identified in the many fertile areas in which subjects and chapters overlap within the book.Trade Review"Waterman and Zeunert have edited an exemplary interdisciplinary volume of great topical scope and profound conceptual depth. From landscape to seascape, Neolithic and Aboriginal to modern and globalized, the ecological to the utopian, The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food offers culinary wisdom, sociological analysis and ethical guidance. It is an indispensable book which promises to inaugurate a new epoch of both culinary and landscape studies."Allen S. Weiss, author of Zen Landscapes (Reaktion Books) and Feast and Folly (State University of New York Press)"In The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food, Joshua Zeunert and Tim Waterman present core samples of the many scales and systems engaged by food, food production, and food distribution. Their collection of essays ranges from the broadest historical survey to the focused case study across geographies and cultures, methods, and fields of studies. With an eye to landscape ecology as well as space and urban form, they hopscotch across conservation, economics, geography, gender studies, forestry, and public health. Complementing a long list of literature on urban agriculture and ideals of cultivation, the book also realigns the gravitational pull of the Anglo-American debate to include numerous Australian perspectives. This kaleidoscopic volume will appeal to the curious amateur and offer a starting point for further research to those concerned with the productive landscape."Dorothée Imbert, Professor, Hubert C. Schmidt '38 Chair in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture Section Head"The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is a timely answer to the growing interest in these subjects. It provides an authoritative and cross-disciplinary overview and stimulating discussions of a broad range of topics related to food and landscape studies and the diversity in concepts and approaches applied therein. The Handbook also discusses the various contexts in which cities, agriculture and landscape are developing and the related challenges. It outlines possible ways to remake foodways, landscapes, cities, and the values we bring to them." Ir. Henk de Zeeuw, Founder and former director of the RUAF Foundation, a global partnership on sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems. Table of ContentsIntroductionTim Waterman and Joshua ZeunertPart 1 From hunting and gathering to agriculture 1 Transformation of the landscape: the relationships between food and land use in prehistoric British and European societiesSaruhan Mosler and Peter Hobson2 The shaping of food landscapes from the Neolithic to Industrial period: changing agro-ecosystems between three agrarian revolutions Gunilla A. Olsson3 Aboriginal Culture and Food-Landscape Relationships in Australia: Indigenous Knowledge for Country and LandscapeDavid S. Jones and Philip A. Clarke4 Archaeology, history, and urban food security: integrating cross-cultural and long-term perspectivesChristian Isendahl and Stephan Barthel5 Foraging Jeremy Strong6 Venison from the Bavarian forests: linking hunters, forest diversity and consumers through regional marketingGerd Lupp, Simon Tangerding and Valerie Kantelberg7 Sustaining Russian Old Believers: landscapes of fish and onions in EstoniaHelen Sooväli-Sepping, Anu Printsmann and Hannes Palang8 Food production and the village under state socialism: the Balkan caseMirjana Lozanovska and Alexandra FloreaPart 2 Agricultures 9 Shifts in agricultural praxis: farm modernisation and global integrationAnders Wästfelt 10 Alternative agriculture: innovations for growing and cultivating diverse ways of knowingJonathan Code11 Seascapes: food from the marine landscape Maggie Roe12 Dimensions of urban agriculture Joshua Zeunert13 Mediterranean urban agricultureTal Alon Mozes and Efrat Eizenberg14 Peri-urban food production as means towards urban food security and increased urban resilienceGunilla Almered Olsson15 Peri-urban agriculture in Australia: pressure on the urban fringe Rachel Carey and Sarah JamesPart 3 Ecology, Resources, Sustainability and Climate Change16 Challenges in agricultural sustainability and resilience: towards regenerative practiceJoshua Zeunert17 Conservation and ecologyGary Austin18 Food systems and climate change: impact and adaptation in cropping and livestock Afshin Ghahramani and Saman Seneweera19 Investing in water management in rural and urban landscapes to achieve and sustain global food securityMunir A. Hanjra, Dennis Wichelns and Pay Drechsel Part 4 Developing Worlds20 Food security, landscape, urban change, and poverty in the developing worldSuzanne Speak21 Connecting landscapes and food in Africa: case studies from Ethiopia and UgandaMax Kelly and Ruth Jackson22 Urban Agriculture in Bogotá´s informal settlements: open space transformation towards productive urban landscapesJaime Hernandez-Garcia and Sandra Caquimbo-Salazar23 Rural-urban food and nutrient dynamics and nutrient recovery from waste in developing countriesMunir A. Hanjra, Mary Lydecker, Pay Drechsel and Johannes PaulPart 5 Intellectual, Political and Economic Realms24 Ethics of agricultural landscapes and food productionIsis Brook25 The new food insecurity Damian Maye 26 Food-sensitive urban planning: Australian perspectivesDavid S. Jones and Beau B. Beza27 Food, landscape, and urban design Susan Parham and Jacques AbelmanPart 6 Social Practices and Meanings28 Eating the commons landscape: sacrificial food for thought concerning the meaning of landscapeKenneth R. Olwig29 From the agora to the modern marketplace: food markets as landscapes of business and pleasureSusan Parham30 Allotments and community gardens: history, culture, and landscape in Britain, North America, and AustraliaClaire Nettle and David Crouch 31 Food sovereignty Max Kelly32 Landscape and the politics of food justice Megan Blake33 Grassroots activism, agroecology, and the food and farming movement: ten years in Bristol’s food storyAngela E. Raffle and Joy CareyPart 7 Food Cultures and Foodways 34 Taste, foodways, and everyday life Tim Waterman35 Food and landscape tourismJo Russell-Clarke36 Terroir: a socially constructed subterranean landscape gone globalZachary Nowak37 Using the senses to write food culture and landscapeNina Mukerjee Furstenau38 Queer space and productive landscapes Andrea Bosio 39 The cultural and spiritual aspects of growing edible plants: testing for meaningfulness in Leeds, UKAnn Light and Christina Welch40 Utopia landscape food utopiaJody Beck

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Book SynopsisBorn in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener. Although he studied agriculture in college, Porcinai's true interest lay in the landscape architecture practice he founded in 1938. Early projects centered in the area of Arezzo, whose style reflected modern ized traditional models. In the postwar era the office flourished, producing modern gardens of remarkable design and use of plants. In these works, Porcinai convincingly demonstrated the affinity between historical architecture and landscapes un compromisingly modern. During his long and productive career he also consulted on autostrada planning, and designed public parks, memorials, and even a Pinocchio theme park-at times collaborating with noted architects such as Renzo Piano, Carlo Scarpa and Oscar Niemeyer. This book, the first English-language study on Pietro Porcinai provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated overview Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. A Life and its Cultural Context, 2. A Dialogue with History, 3. Topography Found, Modeled, or Constructed, 4. Plants and Planting, 5. Working with Architects: Collaborations, 1937–1980, Notes, Biographical and Professional Outline, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Index

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Book SynopsisArchitects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice. Over the past decade, there has been a reinvigorated discussion on color within architectural and cultural studies. Yet, scholarly enquiry within landscape architecture has been minimal despite its important role in landscape design. This book posits that though color and lighting effects appear natural, fleeting, and difficult to comprehend, the sensory palette of built landscapes and gardens has been carefully constructed to shape our experience and evoke meaning and place character. Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today is an inquiry into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries. Divided into three key periods, each chapter in the book looks at the use of color in the written and built work of key prominTrade Review"Mira Engler takes a hearty bite into a space within design that is very rarely discussed: COLOR. Color generates the same disquietude as the topic of beauty, as it’s assumed to be too qualitative within the design profession. Beauty or color are not considered an acceptable form of "vision," but rather irrational, dispensable, and irrelevant in addressing important landscape and environmental issues. Color is even more threatening to clients, especially white men of European descent, who feel it could erode their appearance of being responsible and trustworthy. Women, who are viewed as more frivolous and less responsible, have some latitude with color. But not much. The lack of color discourse underscores how deeply cultural and personal the topic can be. And although most designers shun color and most clients make immediate unfavorable judgements about it, none has the power to ignore it. Reacting to color is in our DNA. The book is a wonderful read. It shares many stories about the impact and glory of color in landscape design, and it shows how color is a strong medium of communication and a chief signifier within world’s cultures. I suggest you read this book and let your freak flag fly!"Martha Schwartz, Martha Schwartz Partners, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design "Mira Engler’s marvelous book empowers us to understand and shape the world through color. Color is at landscape architecture’s heart affecting perceptions of depth, space, and identity, yet color’s agency is rarely discussed or even acknowledged. Providing a much-needed chromatic overview of landscape history, theory, and practice, Engler’s book bravely tackles a considerable void in landscape knowledge and makes the convincing case for color in landscape architecture and design. This colorful book is a joy to read."Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State "In Landscape Design in Color, Mira Engler offers us new vistas, taking in the designed environment as well as the cultures they reflect. She breathes new life into old concepts central to art and design disciplines, such as disegno vs. colore, while her discussions of contemporary artists and designers provide points of connection to audiences well outside her field. Engaging with enduring theoretical debates as well as more current treatments of race and gender, this is interdisciplinarity at its most exciting and relevant."Aaron Fine, Professor of Art, Truman State University. Author of Color Theory: A Critical Introduction Table of ContentsPart I: Pre-Modernism 1. Structural Color: Uniform Verdure, Humphry Repton (1752–1818) 2. Artificial Color: Bright and Complementary, J. C. Loudon (1783–1843) 3. Color as Impression: Graduated Harmony, William Robinson (1838–1935) and Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) Part II: Modernism 4. Material and Phenomenal Color: Simultaneous Contrast, Gabriel Guevrekian (1900–70) 5. Spatial Color: A-Chrome, Garrett Eckbo (1910–2000) 6. Symphony of Color: Tropical Saturation, Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) Part III: Postmodernism, Onward 7. Conceptual Color: Purely Synthetic, Martha Schwartz (b. 1950) 8. Affective Light Color: Translucence, Petra Blaisse (b. 1955) 9. Color Now: Gender, Skin, and Screen Postscript: Color Prospects

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Book SynopsisWithin the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design. Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you to use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Crossing fields: Designing and Researching Raumgeschehen 2. Design Research as a Non-Linear Interplay of Five Moments 3. Navigating in Urban Landscapes – Mapping as a Navigational Strategy in Designing Landscapes 4. Walk with Me! How Walking Inspires Designing 5. Design Comments – A Dialogue-Based Approach to Using Designerly Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Contexts 6. On Playing and Designing. Gaining Knowledge and Finding Ideas through Play during the Process of Designing Urban Landscapes Chapter 7. Holding onto the land 8. Urban Landscape Stories – Narratives as a Design Research Tool 9. Creating Future Research Platforms 10. Setting Out. Creative Strategies for the Beginning Phase in Large-Scale Landscape Design 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisCompiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment.Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea Trade Review"Landscape is an essential concept for our time, and Kenneth Olwig is a pioneer in the recovery of the word’s meanings. His classic essays, brought together in Meanings of Landscape, are required reading for all those who care about landscape in its many dimensions."Anne Whiston Spirn, author of The Language of Landscape"Wielding his philological scalpel, Olwig peels away landscape’s modern surficial layers that fixed it as spatial scenery, to expose its earlier meanings as a polity and its places that ideally form the nexus of community."Kent Mathewson, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, USAThe AAG Review of Books, Volume 7, 2019"This is a wonderful book that gives a clear sense of the amazing breadth of Kenneth R. Olwig’s lifelong project on the history of landscape and of his unique capacity of moving in between languages and cultural contexts. Reading this book had almost a paralyzing effect on me: What else can be said on landscape? Where to take landscape research after The Meanings of Landscape? How to teach landscape and explain the genealogy of its diabolic duplicity?"Claudio Minca, Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, AustraliaThe AAG Review of Books, Volume 7, 2019 "Kenneth R. Olwig's The Meanings of Landscape is an outstanding piece of creative thinking delivered with an originality of style second to none. It weaves together a multifaceted storyline that stretches over decades of unique and consistent scholarship, time and again advancing from a place-oriented rage against space, and forever changing the way landscape used to be."The AAG Review of Books, Volume 7, 2019Table of ContentsForeword by Tim Ingold. Introduction. 1. Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape2. Landscape, Place and the State of Progress 3. Choros, Place and the Spatialization of Landscape 4. Are Islanders Insular? A Personal View 5. The Case of the "Missing" Mask: Performance, Theatre, Ætherial Space and the Practice of Landscape/Architecture 6. Performing on the Landscape versus Doing Landscape: Perambulatory Practice, Sight and the Senses of Belonging 7. Heidegger, Latour and the Reification of Things: the Inversion and Spatial Enclosure of the Substantive Landscape - The Lake District Case 8. Transcendent Space, Reactionary-Modernism and the "Diabolic" Sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the Landscape Origins of Modern Spatial Science and Planning 9. Geese, Elves, and the Duplicitous, "Diabolical" Landscaped Space and Wild Nature of Reactionary Modernism: Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz

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Book SynopsisToday, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design, and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science. In the questioning narrative of Constructed Ecologies, the author discards many old and tired theories in landscape architecture. With detailed documentation, she casts off the savannah theory, critiques the search for universals, reveals the needed role of designers in large-scale agriculture, abandons the overlay technique of McHarg, and introduces the ecological and urban health urgency of public night lighting.Margaret Grose presents wide-ranging new approaches and shows the importance of learning from science for design, of going beyond assumptions, of working in multiple rather than single issues, of disrupting linear design thinking, and of dealiTable of ContentsPart I: A Background to Design, 1. The Environment is Not a Human Construct, 2. Global Differences, Not Universals, 3. Shifting Adaptabilities, Not Static Concepts, Part II: Thinking about Design, 4. Multiple, Not Solo Voices, 5. Inquiries, Not Assumptions, 6. Thinking Backwards, Not as a Forward and Linear Narrative

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