Landscape architecture and design Books

Book SynopsisFor centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day. It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape, culture and policy that underlie the activities of the National Park, Cumbria Tourism and the proposals to recognise the Lake District as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It examines all aspects of the Lake District''s history and identity, brings the story up to date and looks at current issues in conservation, policy and tourism marketing. In doing so, it not only provides a unique and valuable analysis of this reTrade Review"The book is alert to ironies, conflicts, and complications within the development of tourism as a cultural practice, and between tourism and other claims of the landscape. Chapters acknowledge some of the social exclusions in the making of the Lake District as a tourist landscape." - The AAG Review of Books, Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, UK"...for any advocate of landscape history and devotee of the Lake District, it is a must read. The bulk of the book is the elegantly told story of the central role the Lake District has played in the evolution of the British preoccupation with and love of landscape." - Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and former Director-General of the National Trust "Overall, the essays in this volume are full of interest, both substantive and methodological." - Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"... this book is interesting, informative, and a good read adding an additional dimension to our knowledge of the cultural processes underpinning the development of the Lake District as a tourism destination." - The Journal of Historical Geography "... this book is an excellent read for anyone interested in the Lake District, the history of tourism, cultural landscapes and national parks." - Landscape History "This book effectively explores the complex making of the destination with richly written essays providing perspectives from a variety of academic fields (including history, literature, and museum studies). The book successfully identifies and illustrates how the ’key themes in the Lake District’s history and identity’ (p. xv) have worked both individually and together to create the Lake District as a distinctly unique tourist destination." - Journal of Heritage Tourism "To be welcomed as full of variety and of historical perspectives with which most literary critics will be unfamiliar, but which allow the poetry and prose of the Lakes to be approached with an informed, as well as quizzical eye, while still demonstrating its significant cultural and geographical legacy." - European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Preface; Part I Lake District History and Identity: The Lake District landscape: cultural or natural?, Susan Denyer; Setting the scene, John K. Walton; The landscape encountered by the first tourists, Angus J.L. Winchester; Landscape and society: the industrial revolution and beyond, John K. Walton; American tourists in Wordsworthshire: from ’national property’ to ’national park’, Melanie Hall. Part II Lake District Tourism Themes: The imaginative visitor: Wordsworth and the Romantic construction of literary tourism in the Lake District, Keith Hanley; ’Inhabited by strangers’: tourism and the Lake District villa, Adam Menuge; The origins and development of mountaineering and rock-climbing tourism in the Lake District, c. 1800-1914, Jonathan Westway; Sport, tourism and place identity in the Lake District, 1800-1950, Mike Huggins and Keith Gregson. Part III Lake District Tourism Case Studies: Claife station and the picturesque in the Lakes, Sarah Rutherford; Furness Abbey: a century and a half in the tourists’ gaze, 1772-1923, Jason Wood; The post-industrial picturesque? Placing and promoting marginalised Millom, David Cooper; Select bibliography; 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 SynopsisThis new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for landscape', a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practiTable of ContentsIntroduction Mick Atha, Peter Howard, Ian Thompson and Emma Waterton Fitting into Country. Deborah Bird Rose Part I: EXPERIENCING LANDSCAPE Part II: LANDSCAPE, CULTURE AND HERITAGE Part III: LANDSCAPE, SOCIETY AND JUSTICE Part IV: DESIGN AND PLANNING FOR LANDSCAPE

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable-design strategies into cross-disciplinary themes. Through topics such as Cultural Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and Resource Systems; Integrating Biodiversity into the Built Environment Rehabilitation Practice; Fixing the Shortcomings Within Community Design, Planning, and Policy; Strategies for Adapting Buildings and Structures for Rising Sea Levels; and Vehicles as a Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation, the book explores contemporary ecological and heritage ethics as a strategy for improving the livability of the built environment.The authors provide a holistic critique of the challenges we face in light ofTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Cultural Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and Resource Systems Chapter 3: History and Theory of Heritage Preservation Chapter 4: History and Theory of Sustainable Design Chapter 5: Architecture and Building Design Chapter 6: Integrating Biodiversity into the Built Environment Rehabilitation Practice Chapter 7: Fixing the shortcomings within community design, planning and policy Chapter 8: Going with the Flow: Strategies for Adapting Buildings and Structures For Rising Sea Levels Chapter 9: Vehicles as a Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation Chapter 10: Conclusions on Lessons from the Past for the Future

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Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just incidental to human well-being. In Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic, forest is a large-scale urban construct that is far more extensive and nuanced than trees and shrubbery. The forest aesthetic opens designers to the forest as a model for an urban architecture of permeable floors, protective canopies, connected food chains, beneficial decomposition, and resilient ecologies. Much can be learned about these features of the forest from the natural sciences; however, when they are given due consideration technically and metaphorically in the design of urban habitat, the places in which

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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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Book SynopsisConsider this How do we handle the convergence of landscape architecture, ecological planning, and civil engineering? What are convenient terms and metaphors to communicate the interplay between design and ecology? What are suitable scientific theories and technological means? What innovations arise from multidisciplinary and cross-scalar approaches? What are appropriate aesthetic statements and spatial concepts? What instruments and tools should be applied? Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design examines these questions and presents innovative approaches in designing green, landscape or nature as infrastructure from different perspectives and attitudes instead of adding another definition or category of green infrastructure. The editors bring together the work of selected ecologists, engineers, and landscape architects who discTrade Review"… much of the current work in green infrastructure is either driven by science and technical considerations, and is devoid of design intelligence and the ability to address spatial issues, or it involves unrealistic design visions with little functional relevance or any connection to democratic processes. This book aims to address the gap between these two approaches through the presentation of a range of methods for designing green infrastructure and through the exploration of different relationships between design and ecology. It is dense with examples where authors work through both theoretical explorations, and also the application of ideas in planning and design for green infrastructure. This is an interesting contribution that broadens the professional literature on this topic."—Topos Magazine, 2015"This book is a comprehensive overview on green infrastructure from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. The contributions by leading experts offer a broad spectrum of theoretical knowledge, research concepts, design ideas, and strategic advice. For me, Revising Green Infrastructure serves as a reliable source of information and gives inspiration for future research as well as practice."—Martin Prominski, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany"This book gathers perspectives on green infrastructure from engineers, ecologists, and landscape architects. The conversation is more theoretical than practical; it focuses on theories of greenness, research projects, teaching methods, and some best practice examples. Recurring themes include machine analogies, new paradigms, and the relationship between 'nature' and 'culture.' Overall, the book comes from an architectural perspective in which landscapes are seen as manifestations of grand ideas. The book is divided into four sections: function and process, culture and specificity, governance and instruments, and applied design. The first two sections are entirely theoretical. The last two contain some physical relationship to infrastructure, usually urban water conservation and wastewater treatment."—Ringgold, Inc. Book News, February 2015"This new book edited by Czechowski, Huack, and Hausladen brings together a collection of 21 papers from a range of 30+ researchers hailing from different countries and understandings of GI: chiefly from the USA and Europe but Haiti, Peru, China, and Vietnam are also represented."—International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Vol. 7, Issues 2, 2015Table of ContentsPart One: Function & Process. Green Functionalism – A brief sketch of its history and ideas in the USA and Germany. Carefully radical or radically careful? Ecology as design motif. The City That Never Was – Engaging Speculative Urbanization through the logics of Landscape. Landscape as energy infrastructure: ecologic approaches and aesthetic implications of design. Landscape Machines, designerly concept and framework for an evolving discourse on living system design. Problems of the Odumian Theory of Ecosystems. Part Two: Culture & Specificity. The Machine and the Garden. Infrastructure design as a catalyst for landscape transformation: research-by-design on the structuring potential of regional public transportation. Beyond Infrastructure and Superstructure – Intermediating Landscapes. Landscapes of variance: working the gap between design and nature. Designing Integral Urban Landscapes – On the End of Nature and the Beginning of Cultures. Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity and Rural Urban Dynamics. Part Three: Governance & Instruments. A transatlantic lens on Green Infrastructure Planning and Ecosystem Services: Assessing Implementation in Berlin and Seattle. The concept of "new nature" – a paradigm shift in how to deal with complex spatial questions. Ecological Network Planning – Exemplary habitat connectivity projects in Germany. Planting the Desert: Cultivating Green Wall Infrastructure. Designing for Uncertainty The Case of Canaan, Haiti . Part Four: Applied Design. Water-Sensitive Design of Open Space Systems Ecological Infrastructure Strategy for Metropolitan Lima, Peru. Green Infrastructure: performance, appearance, economy and working method. The Caribbean Landscape Cyborg: Designing Green Infrastructure for La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Forests and Trees in the City: Southwest Flanders and the Mekong Delta.

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Book SynopsisHow to Grow a Playspace takes you through a global perspective of the different stages of child development and the environments that engage children in play around the world. From the urbanity of Mumbai; to rainbow nets in Japan; nature play in Denmark; recycling waste in Peru; community building in Uganda; play streets in London; and gardens of peace in Palestine, it proves that no matter where play occurs, it is ubiquitous in its resourcefulness, imagination and effect.Written by international leaders in the field of play including academics, designers and playworkers, How to Grow A Playspace discusses contemporary issues around children and play, such as risk benefit in play, creativity and technology, insights into children's thinking, social inclusion and what makes a city child-friendly.With its own Potting Shed', this text is also a practical guide to support playspace projects with advice on teams, budgets, community engageTable of ContentsPart I: Ground, 1. Introduction, Part II: Sowing, 2. A History of Playspaces (Carla Pascoe), 3. Fundamental Perceptions and Ingredients for Play; Having Fun, Opening Up and Letting Go (Elizabeth Cummins), 4. Insights into the Mind of the Child (Tracy R. Gleason and Becky L. Geer), 5. Play Environments and Affordances (Elizabeth Cummins and Zahra Zamani), 6. Chaos and Confusion: The Clash between Adult’s and Children’s Spaces (Katherine Masiulanis), 7. City Play (Elger Blitz and Hannah Schubert), 8. Of Agency, Participation and Design: Two Contrasting Play Scenarios in Indian Cities (Mukta Naik), 9. Designing Inclusive Playspaces (Katherine Masiulanis), 10. Glenallen School (Mary Jeavons), Part III: Seedlings, 11. Developmental Stages (Katherine Masiulanis), 12. Observable Patterns and Interests (Elizabeth Cummins), 13. Social Ergonomics (Katherine Masiulanis), 14. Common Affordances for Play (Elizabeth Cummins), 15. The Natural Environment as Playspace (Helle Nebelong), 16. Planting for Children’s Play (John Rayner), 17. Introducing Water Play Environments to Early Years Settings (Theresa Casey and Margaret Westwood), 18. The Development of Forest School in the UK (Christina Dee), 19. Children’s Gardens: A Tale of Two Cities (Andrew Laidlaw), 20. Reflections on Designing Lafayette Park Playground (Jeffrey Miller ASLA). Part IV: Sprouts, 21. Developmental Stages (Katherine Masiulanis), 22. Observable Patterns and Interests (Elizabeth Cummins), 23. Social Ergonomics (Katherine Masiulanis), 24. Common Affordances for Play (Elizabeth Cummins), 25. Colours and Materials (Katherine Masiulanis), 26. Embedded Art in Playspaces (Dorelle Davidson), 27. Child Led Creativity (Matthew Shaw), 28. Art as Playspace: Interview with Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam and Charles MacAdam (Elizabeth Cummins), 29. Quintessential Play Patterns in Schools - The Interface of Space, Materials and Play Behaviour (Mary Jeavons), 30. When is a Slide not a Slide? (Or What if we Think Differently About and Beyond Design) (Wendy Russell), 31."This Place is Like a Building Site…." (Judi Legg), 32. The Stepping Stones to Many Playgrounds (Carla and Tom Gill), Part V: Saplings, 33. Developmental Stages (Katherine Masiulanis), 34. Observable Patterns and Interests (Elizabeth Cummins), 35. Social Ergonomics (Katherine Masiulanis), 36. Common Affordances for Play (Elizabeth Cummins), 37. Beyond 14+ years (Alasdair Roy & Gabrielle McKinnon), 38. Technology in Playspaces: A Snapshot (Katherine Masiulanis), 39. Lima and the Ever-Postponed Electric Train (Basurama), 40. Be Not Afeared: Embracing the Need for Risk in Play (Bernard Speigel), 41. Not in My Front Garden! Play Streets: A Doorstep Controversy (Paul Hocker), 42. We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on (Penny Wilson), Part VI: The Potting Shed, 43. The Team (Katherine Masiulanis), 44. Tin Tacks - Budgeting and Resources (Elizabeth Cummins), 45. Social and Environmental Responsibilities (Katherine Masiulanis), 46. Site Analysis and Opportunities for Play (Katherine Masiulanis), 47. Playspaces and Community Engagement (Elizabeth Cummins), 48. Insight into Playground Manufacturers (Katherine Masiulanis), 49. Staging (Elizabeth Cummins), 50. Planting Maintenance (Katherine Masiulanis), 51. Maintenance and Longevity (Elizabeth Cummins), 52. Supporting Infrastructure (Katherine Masiulanis), 53. Standards and Regulations (General and best practice principles) (Paul Grover)

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Book SynopsisThe last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The flexibility and new challenges invested in non-permanent landscapes has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for professionals and impromptu designers. Raffaella Sini examines the historical evolution of the genre, exploring theory, narratives, and strategies informing 80 temporary gardens built in France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and the United States.Key topics include: temporary gardens in 1970s avant-garde art and 1980s public art; temporary gardens as opportunities to work with live processes, practiceinclusion, and explore concepts of social justice and ecology; temporary gardens to redefine the vocabulary of garden design; and temporary gardens in tactical urbanism.The book comprehensively decodifies the full range of ephemeral gardens: uprooted, mobile, itTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The History of Temporary Gardens 3 Decoding Temporary Gardens 4 The Temporary Garden as Testing Ground for Conceptual Ideas 5 Temporary Gardens in the City 6 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisElite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 17001830 offers a detailed study of elite women's relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women's role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women's place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies.Chapters2, 3, and 4of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-NTrade ReviewElite Women and the Agricultural Landscape has won several prizes including: The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize for the best book in British or Irish rural history and The Women's History Network Book Prize for the best first book in women's or gender history.‘McDonagh’s rich and exciting new monograph makes a welcome contribution to the field of women’s and gender history, whilst also greatly enriching our understanding of landscape, agriculture and property in Georgian England [..] McDonagh’s exploration of women’s involvement in the process brings a new perspective to well-trodden ground. By recovering so many examples of propertied women, and by investigating the ways in which gender informed women’s perceptions and practices of landownership, McDonagh also shows for the first time that Georgian women played a significant, yet hitherto unrecognised role in making the English landscape.’ — Dr Rachel Delman, University of Oxford, Reviews In History, 2288 (2018)‘The book is composed of seven tightly written chapters with an appendix providing the key information on the female landowners, estate managers, builders and improvers featured in the text. This is a most useful reference with details of their route to landownership, marital status when managing the property, approximate years managing the estate, the names of husbands and children, and finally their own maiden name.’— Professor Liz Griffiths, University of Exeter, Agricultural History Review, 66.1 (2018)‘While the contribution made by women in business, the arts and philanthropy during this formative period has been acknowledged, the role of women in shaping the British landscape has largely been ignored, not only by contemporaries, but by modern historians and archivists too. As a historical geographer and feminist, McDonagh sets out to correct this omission and challenge the view, expressed by John Beckett, that "eighteenth-century landowning was a man’s world".’— Professor Liz Griffiths, University of Exeter, Agricultural History Review, 66.1 (2018)Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape has won several prizes including: The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize for the best book in British or Irish rural history and The Women's History Network Book Prize for the best first book in women's or gender history.‘McDonagh’s rich and exciting new monograph makes a welcome contribution to the field of women’s and gender history, whilst also greatly enriching our understanding of landscape, agriculture and property in Georgian England [..] McDonagh’s exploration of women’s involvement in the process brings a new perspective to well-trodden ground. By recovering so many examples of propertied women, and by investigating the ways in which gender informed women’s perceptions and practices of landownership, McDonagh also shows for the first time that Georgian women played a significant, yet hitherto unrecognised role in making the English landscape.’— Dr Rachel Delman, University of Oxford, Reviews In History, 2288 (2018)‘The book is composed of seven tightly written chapters with an appendix providing the key information on the female landowners, estate managers, builders and improvers featured in the text. This is a most useful reference with details of their route to landownership, marital status when managing the property, approximate years managing the estate, the names of husbands and children, and finally their own maiden name.’— Professor Liz Griffiths, University of Exeter, Agricultural History Review, 66.1 (2018)‘While the contribution made by women in business, the arts and philanthropy during this formative period has been acknowledged, the role of women in shaping the British landscape has largely been ignored, not only by contemporaries, but by modern historians and archivists too. As a historical geographer and feminist, McDonagh sets out to correct this omission and challenge the view, expressed by John Beckett, that "eighteenth-century landowning was a man’s world".’— Professor Liz Griffiths, University of Exeter, Agricultural History Review, 66.1 (2018)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Women, Land and Property 3. Managing the Estate 4. Improving the Estate 5. County Houses, Gardens and Estate Villages 6. Representing Women and Property 7. Beyond the (Park) Pale

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Book SynopsisGraduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chartered Landscape Architect, MBA and Barrister, Gordon Rowland Fraser draws upon 30 years of project management, professional practice and teaching experience to provide an uncomplicated and intuitive guide to the business aspects of the landscape profession. An indispensable reference for seasoned professionals, the book will enable the student or novice practitioner to turn their drawing board inspiration into reality without being overwhelmed or afraid of overseeing the implementation of their proposals. Guided by the Landscape Institute's 2013 Pathway to Chartership syllabus, this structured, step-by-step, narrative guide sets out the documentation commonly used within the landscape profession and makes accessible a logical and sequential understanding of contractual relationships; procurement strategies; processes of preparing client estimates and obtaining competitive quotations; of preparing contract documentation and administering fTrade Review'Landscape Professional Practice is a long awaited book giving true up-to-date information about the nitty-gritty of professional practice. This is a must-read book for all pre-pathway to chartership students and young professionals, both for confidence in practice and in passing the pathway exam. The book will fill in many essential knowledge gaps for these graduates to fast track them to CMLI status. This is desperately needed, because there are far too few landscape professionals, and more books like this will help to at least fast track the few new professionals and future stars of landscape design to become contributing, and productive members of the profession more quickly. The book is well laid out and an excellent reference. I will be buying one and urging all my staff to do so too.' James Blake, James Blake Associates, UK 'Just as Hugh Clamp's Landscape Professional Practice was a "must have", "must study", "must refer to" professional reference of the late twentieth century, so Gordon Fraser's new reference will be the favoured reference of the early twenty-first century. This book will be an important reference guide for many years to come, helping to identify, clarify and elucidate many of the fundamental elements of professional practice for landscape architects not only in the UK but around the world.' Nigel Thorne, Consultant Landscape Architect/Specialist Landscape Manager, UK 'It is unique to find a book that offers such a wide range of professional and business performance topics, and relate them to a particular profession. Gordon, with his unique professional background, has achieved this with Landscape Professional Practice. The aims of chapters are clearly presented, and the breadth of experience is impressive, covering business management concepts, professional ethics, negligence, and a range of other subjects of importance to landscape professionals. I hope many professionals will benefit from the knowledge and experience this publication has to offer.' Chris Sheridan, Landscape Institute, UK Any Professional Landscaper would (therefore) be well advised to acquire Landscape Professional Practice ... In lucid text, helpfully punctuated by bullet points, Fraser covers professional standards, contract law, planning, health and safety, and contract administration. The book will tell you how to draw up your contracts and how to manage both your business and your clients. Historic GardensTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction. Section I Professional Judgment Ethics and Values: Professional association. Section II Organisation and Management: The law of contract; The tort of professional negligence; Health and safety legislation; Business performance and development; Business management; Engaging a landscape professional. Section III Legislative Bases of Assessment and Analysis: Development control and environmental management. Section IV Project Implementation: Understanding contractual relationships; Construction Design and Management Regulations; Estimating project budgets; Specification fundamentals; Conditions of contract; Single stage selective tendering; Contract administration; Alternative dispute resolution procedures. List of references; Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape. Table of ContentsPreface PART 1 Landscape Planning 1 Will planning die? 2 Landscape plans 3 Context theories PART 2 Environmental Impact Design 4 Public open space 5 Reservoirs 6 Mineral working 7 Agriculture 8 Forests 9 Rivers and floods 10 Transport 11 Urbanization Appendix: Environmental impact questions

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Book SynopsisScottish botanist Thomas Blaikie (17511838), a favourite of Marie Antoinette, designed the most famous gardens in France. From 1775 to 1792, he kept a diary which gives a unique insight into the social history of revolutionary France. Published in 1931, it was edited by journalist Francis Birrell (18891935).Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; The diary; Notes; Appendix; Index.

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Book SynopsisHumphry Repton (17521818) ranked among the most prominent landscape gardeners of his age. Prepared by a former professional rival, John Claudius Loudon (17831843), this is a posthumous collected edition of Repton's works, published in 1840, illuminating the principal styles and contemporary debates of landscape design.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Biographical notice of the late Humphry Repton, Esq.; Part I. Sketches and Hints of Landscape Gardening: Advertisement; Catalogue of Red Books; Introduction; 1. The characters and situations of several different places; 2. Concerning buildings; 3. Concerning the situation for a house; 4. Concerning water; 5. Concerning park scenery; 6. Comparison of modern, or landscape gardening, and the ancient or geometric style; 7. Concerning approaches; Appendix; Part II. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Advertisement; Preface; List of places; 1. Introduction; 2. Optics, or vision; 3. Water; 4. Of planting for immediate and future effect; 5. Woods; 6. Of fences; 7. Ferme ornée; 8. Of pleasure-grounds; 9. Defence of the art; 10. Of ancient and modern gardening; 11. Miscellaneous; 12. Architecture and gardening inseparable; 13. Ancient mansions; 14. Application of gardening and architecture united; 15. Conclusion; Part III. An Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening: 1. Historical notices; 2. Scientific discussions; 3. Literary and miscellaneous remarks; Part IV. Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton; Part V: Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: 1. Rural architecture; 2. Symmetry; 3. Fences near the house; 4. Cobham Hall; 5. Dates of buildings; 6. Castles; 7. Unity of character; 8. Blenden Hall; 9. Windows; 10. Gothic outline; 11. Beaudesert; 12. Of colours; 13. Of interiors; 14. Wingerworth; 15. Planting single trees; 16. Of villas; 17. Garden in Portugal; 18. Uppark; 19. Of combinations; 20. Contrasts; 21. Frome House; 22. Aspects and prospects; 23. Variety; 24. Longleate; 25. A plan explained; 26. A villa near the capital; 27. Gardens of Ashridge; 28. Woburn Abbey; 29. Luxuries of a garden; 30. Lodges and cottages; 31. Water fences; 32. Improvements; 33. Sherringham Bower; 34. Endsleigh; 35. House of industry; 36. Harestreet; General index.

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Book SynopsisArtists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art, including Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, and Richard Long.Wanderlust highlights artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art. This book (and the exhibition it accompanies) is the first comprehensive survey of the artist's need to roam and the work that emerges from this need. Wanderlust presents the work of under-recognized yet pioneering artists alongside their well-known counterparts, and represents works that vary in process, with some artists working as solitary figures implanting themselves physically on the landscape while others perform and create movements in a collaborative manner or in public.Many of the earlier works use what were at the time nontraditional methods of art making. In Trail Markers (1969), for example, Nancy Holt spent time in the English countryside, where she documented the painted orange trail markers she found dotting the landscape. Vito

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Book SynopsisDirt as fertile medium and metaphor in cities, landscapes, process, and design: dirty attitudes in essays, interviews, and projects.Dirt presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect's perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks. Dirt is a matrix; as a book, it organizes contributions from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, historic preservation, fine arts, and art history.The chapters predict and report on city waterfronts revamped by climate change, the reinvention of suburbia, an

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Book SynopsisAn elegy for our changing landscape by a master photographer.

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Book SynopsisThis thorough guide, the second of two volumes, displays and discusses American original architecture, including Pueblo, Spanish Revival, Ranch, Cabin, Craftsman, Prairie, Cape Cod, and the Mediterranean influence. Over 320 beautiful, color photos and 96 line drawings illustrate possibilities and display the implemented landscapes. For each architectural style, descriptions of colors, materials, and unique features are given. Site elements include the paving, walls, fences, trellises, shade covers, water features, fire features, seating, and garden art. This book is a must wherever landscape design is discussed, imagined, and implemented.

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Book SynopsisThis thorough guide, the second of two volumes, displays and discusses American original architecture, including Pueblo, Spanish Revival, Ranch, Cabin, Craftsman, Prairie, Cape Cod, and the Mediterranean influence. Over 320 beautiful, color photos and 96 line drawings illustrate possibilities and display the implemented landscapes. For each architectural style, descriptions of colors, materials, and unique features are given. Site elements include the paving, walls, fences, trellises, shade covers, water features, fire features, seating, and garden art. This book is a must wherever landscape design is discussed, imagined, and implemented.

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Book SynopsisHere is a new book rich in visual choices for everyone planning to build in their backyard. Whether you're hoping to create a simple trellis to train roses or erect a pavilion to entertain the extended family, this is the perfect place to start. Over 400 photos illustrate an impressive quantity of architectural additions for the backyard, from arched gateways to grand gazebos, pretty pergolas, picture-perfect pagodas, and fascinating follies. An illustrated glossary gives you the language and historical reference to help you achieve a more interesting landscape. This will be a treasured reference for any landscaping professional, landscape architect, backyard shed builder, or homeowner aspiring beyond the average.

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Book SynopsisA visual showcase of 39 award-winning international pool projects recognized for inspired design and technological innovation International Award-Winning Pools showcases the most innovative designs of water-inspired applications from around the globe. Gathered here is a collection winners of the Global AquaTekture Visionary Award, a prestigious distinction that honors the finest pool visionaries, inventors, and builders from Australia, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States. The 39 projects shown in this book masterfully blend the natural landscapes, elevations, and vistas with native and man-made materials. Includes exceptional commercial and residential environments, and provides information on the visionaries who created them.

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Book SynopsisMany supernatural creatures are said to inhabit our world. Their magical, wonderland realm has been the subject of many books, movies, and our childhood dreams. In this richly illustrated book, 30 designers from around the world transform natural settings into enchanting displays that recreate that sense of wonder. Using artificial flowers, fabric, sticks, wire, crystals, berries, acorns, baskets, and polymer clay, these designers have been inspired to create their own once upon a time fairy home and garden for special events, storytelling, or just because they believe in fairies. In doing so, they tap into our inner child and help us to imagine a new world. This is a wonderful resource for designers and artists, as well as parents, teachers, or anyone looking to create their own magical place.

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Book SynopsisCarrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the bow wavewhere city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land.Trade ReviewJohn Fraser Hart's study of the ever-changing rural landscape is a competent and richly illustrated account of human endeavour, charting patterns of land use across time and space, from the small cross-ploughed fields of Neolithic Britain to the vast wheat-producing plains of modern-day America. It reveals how history is continuously incorporated into the landscape. Times Literary Supplement Hart has a keen eye, a facile pen, and a love for conversation with people who live and work in such places. The result is an admirable and wide-ranging book. Agricultural History A wonderful record to have between two covers... well produced with photographs of exceptional clarity. The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Understanding LandscapesPart I: RocksChapter 2. The Surface of the LandChapter 3. Landscapes of MiningPart II: PlantsChapter 4. Plant LifeChapter 5. The Use of ForestsChapter 6. Cropping SystemsPart III: Land Division Chapter 7. Land Division in BritainChapter 8. Land Division in AmericaPart IV: Farm StructuresChapter 9. Fences and FieldsChapter 10. BarnsChapter 11. Other Farm StructuresChapter 12. Farm Size and Farm TenurePart IV: Small Towns and the Urban EdgeChapter 13. Small TownsChapter 14. The Long Shadow of the CityChapter 15. RecreationEpilogue: The Changing CountrysideFurther ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThe only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing cocoon citizenship,the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.Trade ReviewA surprisingly lively case study of the battles and alliances of politics, business and people that formed-or deformed-a great American city. Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the most entertaining and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time about urban growth and change... Important reading for anyone interested in contemporary urban development. [Fulton] tells a story that may sound uniquely Los Angeles, but really applies to every growing city in America. -- Richard Peiser APA JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction: The Collapse of the Growth MachinePart 1: Power Chapter 1: The Beachhead Chapter 2: Perestroika Co-opted Chapter 3: Suburbs of ExtractionPart 2: Structure Chapter 4: Chinatown Redefined Chapter 5: The Money Train Chapter 6: The Reluctant MetropolisPart 3: Land Chapter 7: The Education of Maria VanderKolk Chapter 8: The Politics of ExtinctionPart 4: Money Chapter 9: The Taking of Parcel K Chapter 10: Welcome to Sales Tax CanyonPart 5: Consequences Chapter 11: Whose Riot Was This, Anyway? Chapter 12: Cloning Los Angeles Chapter 13: Cocoon Citizenship and the Toon Town UrbanismAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Photography Credits

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Book SynopsisRegarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communities, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement.Trade ReviewObligatory reading for residents past and present. -- Rob Stout Cincinnati Enquirer Rogers delved into the rich cache of materials found in the John Nolen Papers to produce the definitive history of an American new town... An exemplary book that will appeal to practictioners as well as historians. -- Bruce Stephenson H-Urban, H-Net Reviews For many practicing planners and academics, planning history may seem distant from current challenges and an unlikely source for workable planning concepts. In fact, we can learn much from studying important exemplars from the past. Nolen's work has been overdue for reexamination. John Nolen and Mariemont deserves a wide audience because it offers insights about the difficulty of creating a well-designed mixed-use community from scratch. -- Cliff Ellis Journal of the American Planning Association I consider Rogers's well-written and usefully illustrated book the best assessment so far of the development of any American planned new town in the twentieth century. Anyone interested in community development will want to read this book. -- John Hancock Business History Review Rogers reconstructs Mariemont's planning and construction from 1920 to 1925... The value of this study to architectural and planning historians lies in the precision of the chronology. -- Mary Corbin Sies Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2003 Mariemont stands out as a real gem, and this well-written, thoughtful book gives the town and its planners the exposure they deserve. -- Joseph L. Arnold Journal of American History 2004 A strong element of connoisseurship pervades the book, especially in the assessments of Mariemont's architectural and planning elements. With a fluid writing style supported by a considerable number of illustrations, Rogers offers the reader a guided tour of Mariemont's early residential, commercial, and public buildings. -- Bradley Cross Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1: New Town, New Concept Chapter 2: Nolen's Town Plan Unfolds Chapter 3: This Is to Be a Model Town Chapter 4: Work Begins Chapter 5: Architects and Buildings Chapter 6: Year of Progress Chapter 7: The Curtain Drops Chapter 8: Emery, Nolen, and Livingood Chapter 9: Was Mariemont the National Exemplar? Appendix: Mariemont Site Landowners and Acreage in 1924 Notes Bibliography Photograph Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.Trade ReviewGumprecht modestly claims that his interest in the Los Angeles River 'has always been more in its past than in its future.' But we require the past he presents, like water in our desert, to make the choices in our future intelligible. Another of the catastrophes of the river will be that too few Angelenos are likely to find and read this essential book... Over the past 150 years, amnesiac L.A. has looked at the space occupied by the river and misread it as dry land ready for development, a western barricade against immigrant neighborhoods, a water resource to be exploited, a perfectly engineered drain and finally a concrete void. Gumprecht gives a broad historical, geographical and human context to these misreadings, and he understands their seductions, particularly the current image of the river as a pathetic captive to be exhumed from its concrete coffin... In the contradictions of the river, Gumprecht reveals a broader conflict about the uses of space in Los Angeles, and that unresolved argument spills over into harder questions here and in every part of the country about the limits of environmental restoration. Confronting them in detail, as Gumprecht does, takes courage. -- D. J. Waldie Los Angeles Times Book Review Gumprecht has produced an astoundingly well-researched environmental history of Los Angeles, as well as a detailed accounting of the political structures that have shaped the river's, and the city's, development. -- Ben Ehrenreich LA Weekly In this fine history of the creek, which travels from the San Fernando Valley to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean off Long Beach, Gumprecht strews river anecdotes around the politics and controversies surrounding the river. It's a must-own for anyone who cares about the development of Southern California or the geography of this part of the state. -- Tim Grobaty Long Beach Press-Telegram Gumprecht describes the crucial role that the river played in the settlement and growth of L.A. both as a water source and as a symbol of the region's Arcadian promise-and, conversely, how the river was remade in the image of the metropolis itself, becoming depleted and degraded by the very development it made possible. Like fellow L.A. historian Mike Davis, Gumprecht scatters an archive of startling photos throughout the book, from a man holding a 25-pound trout caught in the river in 1940 to the scene of a riverbed drag race broken up by police in 1950. Conjuring images of Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Gumprecht's river 'biography' breathes vitality into a subject that in the hands of a less enthusiastic author might be drier than the industrial wasteland that he describes.Publishers Weekly In this well-written and beautifully crafted study, Blake Gumprecht provides a close look at the evolution of one of America's most urban rivers, focusing on the impact the river has had on human activities and how, in turn, those activities have altered the stream... This is an important book. Thoroughly researched and balanced in its findings, it is illustrated by well-chosen maps, diagrams, drawings, and photographs. Environmental, urban, and economic historians will find much to ponder in this study, which cuts across academic boundaries. Policy makers will also find it refreshing; interpretative without being overly judgmental, the book poses valuable questions to anyone trying to plan future urban developments. -- Mansel G. Blackford American Historical Review The Los Angeles River seems an unlikely subject for a book. The unsightly paved passageway that runs through the modern city resembles little more than a glorified drainage ditch... Yet, the river's concrete facade obscures a fascinating history, one expertly revealed by Blake Gumprecht in this exceptional book... Not the least of the virtues of The Los Angeles River is its graceful writing. From the opening paragraphs, the reader experiences the joys of a journey conducted by an entertaining and reliable guide. Gumprecht, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is equipped with a vivid sense of language and strong narrative skills, allowing him to navigate a complex and often confusing tale and to make it readily accessible to the reader. Excellent maps and photos enhance the voyage. -- Jules Tygiel Business History Review A well-written and solidly researched book on a topic about which little is known... In the past decade, Los Angeles has become a laboratory for theoretical and occasionally polemical scholarship on urban geography. Straightforward, temperate, and chronologically narrated, Gumprecht's work in many ways poses a refreshing counterbalance to that genre. -- Jared Orsi Environmental History A masterpiece of classical geographical synthesis. [Gumprecht] has woven a compelling depiction of the physical geography of the Los Angeles Basin and its settlement history; and he has extended the tapestry to include the battles over water, the engineering of the channel for flood control, and the dreamy attempts to restore some semblance of nature to the river. The narrative is an absorbing account of how the modest river provided the leverage to spur a development explosion... The Los Angeles River is the kind of book we should all read, and encourage our students to read, because it is one reminder of what good geography is all about. I wish I could write like that! -- Douglas J. Sherman Geographical Review The well written prose on an interesting topic makes this a worthwhile read. -- Erik Prout Historical Geography I welcome books like this, that merge history, geography and public policy into a cogent, readable, and remarkably objective work. -- Bob Pavlik California History Action 2000Table of ContentsContents: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction Chapter: 1 The River as It Once Was Chapter: 2 Sustenance for the Young Pueblo Chapter: 3 Draining the River Dry Chapter: 4 A Stream That Could Not Be Trusted Chapter: 5 Fifty-one Miles of Concrete Chapter: 6 Exhuming the River

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Book SynopsisIt is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewThe incorporation of historical geography enhances this engaging micro-study of US industrialization. Choice 2004 A richly written, vivid description of the complex relations between capital, individual agents, and place-making in a period of industrial restructuring. -- James Defilippis Labor History 2005 I highly recommend this book, thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and expect that many others will do the same. -- John Benhart, Jr. Pennsylvania Geographer 2005 Mosher's fine book examines one of the most important ways that technological change shapes human society. -- Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2006 This is a wonderful book that places an important model city in the larger context of the constantly evolving societal and geographical relations between capital and labor. -- Dean Sinclair Journal of Cultural Geography 2006 Mosher has written an excellent book. Her prose is clear and unencumbered by jargon and appropriately illustrated with photographs, maps, and data tables. Cultural Geographies 2007Table of ContentsExperimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry; Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel; The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift; Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula; The steel strike of 1901; Growing pains for a "model town".

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Book SynopsisWith its broad scope and deep research, Appalachian Folkways accurately and evocatively chronicles a way of life that is fast disappearing.Trade ReviewRehder obviously loves Appalachia and seeks to present it honestly, completely and positively. -- Julie Baxter Winston-Salem Journal Rehder's book is one of the best about Appalachia... A very good and accurate reference for persons interested in the region and in cultural geography in general. -- Greg Langley Baton Rouge Advocate 2004 An important work that must be read by anyone interested in developing a comprehensive knowledge of southern Appalachia. Choice 2005 An enjoyable and enlightening excursion through the cultural geography of Southern Appalachia. -- Katie Algeo Southeastern Geographer 2005 An informative and entertaining look into the 'culture hearth' of the southern Appalachian Mountains... a distinctive cultural center in America. -- James E. Bird CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewarship 2005 An engaging book to read... I plan to use this book the next time I teach my course on the Sociology of Appalachian Culture. -- Susan H. Ambler Journal of East Tennessee History 2005 In this comprehensive, in-depth look at the distinct cultural region of Southern Appalachia, Rehder emphasizes that the mosaic of identities present in Southern Appalachia cannot be generalized. -- Carol Ann Gillespie Ph.D. Journal of Cultural Geography 2005 Rehder's book is one of the best about Appalachia... A very good and accurate reference for persons interested in the region and in cultural geography. -- Greg Langley Sunday Advocate 2004 Rehder obviously loves Appalachia and seeks to present it honestly, completely and positively. -- Barbara Bamberger Scott Winston-Salem Journal 2004 Rehder demonstrates an honest curiosity and a heart-felt appreciation of rural lifeways, which enrich his study and add to its popular appeal. -- Sara M. Gregg Agricultural History 2006 An intriguing regional geography. -- Barbara G. Shortridge Professional Geographer 2006 Readers looking for an encyclopedic, detailed and well-researched account of cultural traits... sprinkled with Rehder's anecdotes and colorful language, will benefit greatly. -- Nicholas Bauch Cultural Geographies 2006 A valuable contribution to Appalachian literature. -- Loretta J. LeMay Journal of Appalachian Studies 2006 I assign the book for my 'Geography of Appalachia' course because of its many strengths. -- George Towers Geographical Review 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Real AppalachiaChapter 2. The Shape of AppalachiaChapter 3. Ethnicity and SettlementChapter 4. Folk Architecture and the Cultural LandscapeChapter 5. Ways of Making a LivingChapter 6. FoodwaysChapter 7. Folk Remedies and Belief SystemsChapter 8. Folk Music, Folk Art, and Folk FestivalsChapter 9. Folk Speech: Terms and SayinsEpilogueNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Delaware Valley emerges from this boldly interdisciplinary study as a mosaic of localities that reflects underlying tensions in the American experience.Trade ReviewLanier's new book takes regionalism to a new level of complexity by exploring the relationship among ethnicity, regional identity, and localism in three places in the lower Delaware Valley. -- Douglas McCalla Journal of American History 2005 A substantial contribution to the study of North American landscapes. -- Peter B. Mires Pennsylvania Geographer 2006 New empirical ground is reached through Lanier's study... A strong argument with well-designed methodology is presented. -- Matt Liesch Journal of Cultural Geography 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. "The Motley Middle"Chapter 2. Ethnic Perceptions, Ethnic LandscapesChapter 3. Landscape on the MarginsChapter 4. Mapping the Ancestral LandscapeChapter 5. A Region of RegionsAppendixNotesPrimary SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisNow in its Sixth Edition, Site Engineering for Landscape Architects has long been the leading textbook used in site engineering, planning, and construction courses. It presents the complex principles and techniques of site grading, drainage, earthwork, and road alignment in a way that is easy for students to understand.Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Site Engineering IS Design 1 Why Is an Understanding of This Material Important? 1 The Design Language of Site Engineering 1 Summary 17 2 Grading Constraints 19 Environmental Constraints 19 Functional Constraints 23 Summary of Critical Constraints 32 3 Contours and Form 33 Definition 33 Constructing a Section 37 Characteristics of Contour Lines 37 Contour Signatures and Landform 38 Case Studies 53 4 Interpolation and Slope 63 Topographic Data 63 Interpolation 64 Calculating Slope 68 Slope s Expressed as Ratios and Degrees 71 Slope Analysis 71 5 Grading of Simple Design Elements 77 Grading of Linear Elements 77 Grading by Proportion 87 Visualizing Topography from Contour Lines 90 Grading of Planar Areas 90 Swales to Divert Runoff 97 Area Grading Process 98 6 Grading Process 101 Introduction 101 Applying the Grading Process 103 Grading Plan Graphics 108 7 Soils in Construction 113 Role of Soil in Site Planning 113 Implications of Soils for Site Construction 113 Geotechnical Exploration and Soil Investigation 115 Soil Characteristics 117 Soil Classification 118 Engineering Properties of Soils 120 Structural Soils 121 Structured Soil Volumes 122 Lightweight Soils 123 Geotextiles 123 Construction Sequence for Grading 124 Placing and Compacting Soils 126 Earthwork Specifications 128 8 Earthwork 129 Definitions 129 Grading Operations 130 Computation of Cut-and-Fill Volumes 131 Case Study 141 9 Storm Water Management 147 Storm Runoff 147 Hydrologic Cycle 148 Nature of the Problem 148 Management Philosophy 150 System Functions 151 Storm Water Management Strategies 153 Beyond Storm Water Management 155 Summary 156 10 Storm Water Management System Components 157 Traditional Storm Water Management System Components 157 Principles and Techniques 160 Infiltration Systems 161 Detention Systems 164 Rainwater Harvesting Systems 168 Constructed Treatment Wetlands 170 Green Roofs 170 Bioretention Systems 174 Landscape Practices 176 Future Developments: Net Zero Water and Integrated Water Management 176 Case Studies 178 Summary 190 11 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control 191 Introduction 191 Regulatory Requirements 191 Soil Erosion Factors 192 Erosion and Sedimentation Processes 193 Erosion and Sediment Control Principles 193 Development of an Erosion and Sediment Control Plan 195 Runoff Considerations 195 Construction Sequencing 196 Erosion Control Measures 196 Sediment Control Measures 202 Case Studies 202 Summary 205 12 Determining Rates and Volumes of Storm Runoff : Th e Rational and Modified Rational Methods 207 Introduction 207 Rational Method 208 Modified Rational Method 218 Volumes of Runoff, Storage, and Release 222 Required Storage for Detention or Retention Ponds by the Modified Rational Method 224 Summary 226 13 Natural Resources Conservation Service Methods of Estimating Runoff Rates, Volumes, and Required Detention Storage 227 Introduction 227 Rainfall 229 Procedures of TR55 229 Volume for Detention Storage 242 Summary 245 14 Designing and Sizing Storm Water Management Systems 247 Management Systems 247 Design and Layout of Drainage Systems 249 Designing and Sizing Grassed Swales (Waterways) 251 Designing and Sizing Pipe Systems 262 Designing and Sizing Subsurface Drainage 270 Designing and Sizing Rainwater Harvesting Systems 275 Designing and Sizing Integrated Water Management Systems 277 Summary 277 15 Site Layout and Dimensioning 279 Hierarchy of Dimensioning 280 Dimensioning Guidelines 281 Horizontal Layout Methods 283 Layout Plans 288 16 Horizontal Road Alignment 291 Types of Horizontal Curves 291 Circular Curve Elements 293 Circular Curve Formulas 293 Degree of Curve 295 Stationing 297 Horizontal Sight Distance 300 Construction Drawing Graphics 300 Horizontal Alignment Procedures 300 Superelevation 301 Case Study 305 17 Vertical Road Alignment 311 Vertical Curve Formula 312 Equal Tangent Curves 313 Calculating the Locations of High and Low Points 315 Unequal Tangent Curves 318 Construction Drawing Graphics 321 Vertical Sight Distances 322 Road Alignment Procedure 322 Appendix I: Table of Metric Equivalents 327 Appendix II: Metric Drawing Scales 329 Glossary 331 Bibliography 337 Index 341

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Book SynopsisThis gorgeous book will appeal to landscape professionals, park administrators, historians, architects, city planners, and students-and it is a perfect gift for Olmsted aficionados throughout North America.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the fields of landscape design would surely want this book as a reference or simply as a celebration of the first and foremost American landscape architect. Garden Design Online Peer into the mind of the nation's most prolific park maker with this book, which showcases more than 70 public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted... Plans and Views of Public Parks is a visual compendium of Olmsted's work, taking readers on a visual tour through some of America's most significant public landscapes. -- Eryn Carlson Boston Globe Enlightening and lavishly illustrated... Whether your interest is in Olmsted and his work, landscape architecture in general, the development of nature-based recreation, or American history, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks can provide a substantial expansion and deepening of your thoughts in your area of interest, as well as help connect it to other related (and perhaps even previously unconsidered) areas of study. Well-read Naturalist A welcome addition to Olmsted scholarship and an excellent companion to the series documenting his extensive papers. Library Journal [ Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks] is a treasure trove of visual materials, with surprises for even the Olmstedian aficionado. Landscape Architecture Magazine Beveridge, the preeminent Olmsted scholar... gathers in a sumptuous, gorgeous volume of the designs that defined what made many American cities great, and livable. Harvard Magazine These visual documents will generate historical evidence and interpretive questions alike, surely the mark of an important contribution. New England Quarterly Had Olmsted never existed, someone else surely would have applied the moral force of this ethic to landscape design, making parks the vehicle of social reform. But it is inconceivable that anyone else would have had the same deep cistern of human sympathy to drawn on. First ThingsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. New York City, New YorkCentral ParkTompkins SquareUnion SquareRiverside ParkMorningside Park2. San Francisco, CaliforniaPleasure Grounds System3. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove, CaliforniaReservation4. Brooklyn, New YorkProspect ParkFort Greene ParkTompkins ParkBrooklyn Parkways5. Bridgeport, ConnecticutSeaside ParkBeardsley Park6. Newark, New JerseyProposed Park7. Albany, New YorkProposed Park System8. Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFairmount Park9. New Britain, ConnecticutWalnut Hill Park10. Buffalo, New YorkPark System, 1870sParkwaysNiagara SquareThe Park (Delaware Park)The FrontThe ParadeLater Extensions and AlterationsSouth Park, 1888 (Proposed)Southside Park System, 1890s11. Fall River, MassachusettsSouth Park12. Hartford, ConnecticutSystem of Public Grounds13. Chicago, IllinoisSouth Park- The Era of 1871-1893The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893- The Lagoon and Wooded IslandPost-Exposition Redesign and Construction of Jackson ParkWashington Park, Post-1893The Midway PlaisanceBoulevards14. Amherst, MassachusettsTown Common15. Baltimore, MarylandMount Vernon Square16. Montreal, QuebecMount Royal17. Detroit, MichiganBelle Isle18. North Easton, MassachusettsMemorial Cairn19. Boston, MassachusettsThe Park SystemCommonwealth AvenueThe Back Bay FensMuddy River Sanitary Improvement, Brookline and BostonOlmstead Park, Boston and BrooklineJamaica Pond and Environs, BostonThe ArborwayThe Arnold ArboretumFranklin ParkFranklin FieldParkways from Franklin Park to Marine ParkMarine ParkBoston Harbor Islands ProposalCharlesbankWood Island ParkCharlestown HeightsCharlestown Playground20. New London, ConnecticutMemorial Park21. St. Catharine's, OntarioMontebello Park22. Niagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Reservation23. Pawtucket, Rhode IslandPublic Recreation Grounds (Proposed)24. Wilmington, DelawareKentmere Parkway25. Trenton, New JerseyCadwalader Park26. Rochester, New YorkPark SystemGenesse Valley ParkHighland ParkSeneca Park27. Louisville, KentuckyPark SystemCherokee ParkIroquois ParkShawnee ParkLouisville ParkwaysLouisville Squares and Places28. Kansas City, MissouriEleventh Street Parkway and Park System (Proposed)Milwaukee, WisconsinPark SystemWest ParkRiver ParkLake Park30. Newburgh, New YorkDowning Park31. Newport, Rhode IslandMorton Park

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Book SynopsisSanitary Commission, the quality of landscape design in England and France, the biographical circumstances that proved most important to his development as an artist, and his hopes and fears for the future of his profession.Trade ReviewA fascinating new door stop of a book... [whose]revealing glimpses into the mind of America's greatest landscape architect take on fresh relevance. -- Blair Kamin Chicago Tribune It goes without saying-yet it must be said-the editors David Schuyler and Gregory Kaliss, with Jeffrey Schlossberg as assistant editor, continue to perform a massive task... There are indeed hoards of materials here that will be perhaps not just looted but used and cited punctiliously by scholars and modern architects. -- John Dixon Hunt Landscape Architecture Magazine The excellence of the scholarship... as well as [the] comprehensiveness is indisputable. Needless to say, those deeply interested in the works of Olmsted would be remiss indeed not to at least consider the acquisition of these volumes for their respective permanent collections. -- John Riutta Well-Read Naturalist Essential. Academic and general readers; practicing landscape professionals. ChoiceTable of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsBiographical DirectoryChapter 1. April 1890-August 1890Chapter 2. August 1890-December 1890Chapter 3. December 1890-March 1891Chapter 4. April 1891-October 1891Chapter 5. November 1891-April 1892Chapter 6. April 1892-August 1892Chapter 7. September 1892-May 1983Chapter 8. May 1983-November 1893Chapter 9. December 1893-May 1894Chapter 10. June 1894-November 1894Chapter 11. December 1894-May 1895Chapter 12. May 1985-December 1985Appendix 1. Selected Undated WritingsAppendix 2. Chronology of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1890-1895Appendix 3. List of Textual AlterationsIndex of Plant Materials General Index

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Book SynopsisA new facsimile edition of a classic work on New York's architectural masterpieceCentral Park Central Park receives millions of visitors every year, tourists and locals alike. A Description of the New York Central Park, published in 1869, is recognized today as the most important book about the park to appear during its early years. The lively, often wry, text was written by Clarence C. Cook, a distinguished Victorian art critic, while the illustrations were drawn by the popular Albert Fitch Bellows. The author and artist examine many sites in the park that survive to this day as well as features that have vanished over time. In a new Introduction, Maureen Meister reveals how the book came about. In the mid-1860s, the park's designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, were battling to defend their plan. Of greatest concern was a proposal to build ornate entrances, suggestive of French imperialism. If realized, the gates would have undermined the park's natural and democratic imaTrade Review"A Description of the New York Central Park by Clarence Cook was one of the first comprehensive guides to Central Park and it remains one of the finest. Albert Fitch Bellows's rich illustrations of the Parks historic structures were an essential reference tool as the Conservancy fulfilled its mission of bringing the Park back from decades of decline to the healthy vibrant park of today. This book is a must for anyone who cherishes Central Park and understands its historic significance as a masterpiece of landscape architecture." -- Douglas Blonsky,President and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy and Central Park Administrator"Clarence Cook is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the original creators of Central Park wished visitors to experience this first great public designed landscape. In her introduction, Maureen Meister reveals the interesting circumstances surrounding the book's conception and production." -- Francis R. Kowsky,author of Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux"I love reissues of essential books with new forewords that provide the backstories of the creators.. Maureen Meister ...unpacks the personalities, prejudices, and relationships between the publisher, printer, author, illustrator and the designers of the object of their attention, Central Park, all of whom were interconnected in multiple, fascinating ways." -- Keith N. Morgan,Professor Emeritus, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University""This delightful early history of Central Park was written with considerable assistance from Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and thus accurately reflects their intent in designing and administering the park. To Clarence Cook's insightful tour of the park and the handsome engravings prepared by Albert F. Bellows, Maureen Meister has contributed an intelligent introduction that explains the book's publication history, especially the roles of Cook, Bellows, printer Corydon Alvord, and publisher F. J. Huntington." -- David Schuyler,author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, and the Hudson River Valley

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Book SynopsisWhat do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by slaves, Indians, indentured servants, and children. Sermons in Stone is the surprising and illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization. "Who would think that a history of that humble workaday structure, the stone wall, would be so full of the fascinating, the peculiar, the downright eccentric? But here it is, laid out in a sprightly style and beautifully illustrated by the ink drawings of David Howell." —Dallas Morning News

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Book SynopsisIncludes raised tombs, ornate statuary, and the alleged grave of voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

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