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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 SynopsisA collection of nine contemporary homes by architect Celeste Robbins, who imbues her modern designs with warmth and emotion In her first monograph, Chicago-based architect Celeste Robbins of Robbins Architecture proves that contemporary design can be inviting, comfortable, and graciously responsive to how we live. Illustrating Robbins’s holistic vision, which integrates architecture, interior design, and landscape, The Meaningful Modern Home features nine significant projects across the United States realized in different styles and natural materials. All offer living proof of how modernism can be warm and rooted in a vivid sense of place.Trade Review‘This book shows just how warm, inviting, and holistic today’s modern homes can be. If you’re looking for inspiration, the photography in this book is beautiful and captures the details of nine homes across the country.’ – Design Milk

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented. The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award – winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.

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Book SynopsisLandscape architecture is a form of high art for Erik Dhont, who has brought both nuance and sensitivity to various sites. Playing with flowers, grasses, shrubs or trees, he creates unique spaces, structures and textures. His timeless green paradises which are the result of true craftsmanship, are deeply rooted in the European garden tradition. They stand for longevity, evolution, dreams, and life. In this second monograph, Dhont presents his creations from over the last twenty years, combining photographs with abstract drawings, colorful planting plans, and sculptural models that reflect on his artistic approach. Intimate views of seminal creations such as the garden of fashion designer Dries van Noten immerse one into Dhont’s creative and sensual universe.

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Book SynopsisThe various components and characteristics of trees have served a multitude of purposes for humans, for as long as we have been in existence. While the tree and its association with the human has been the studied and reflected upon in various disciplines of study, its spatial dimension is the object of this book, seen through the aesthetic, economic, political, socio-cultural and symbolic lenses, primarily in the Indian context. While looking at various Indian socio-cultural zones which are the result of climatic zones.

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Book SynopsisHow to Read Gardens is the essential guide for garden lovers and visitors alike. Visiting gardens has never been more popular but not many of us understand what we are looking at when strolling through a beautiful garden - are we looking at an original landscaped site or a recreation? Is the planting matter authentic or made up of modern hybrids? Are the steps and terracing in the Italianate style or are they Arts and Crafts? The truth is that most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed and influenced the soft and hard fabric of the place over time. Inevitably many of the gardens we wander through today are an amalgam of changing fashions and circumstance. How to Read Gardens gives you all the knowledge you need to tease out the clues that will tell you the complete story of a garden's past. From the grandest estate to the smallest suburban plot, this book will enliven and inform every visit.Trade ReviewThis handy pocket sized guidebook would be a useful companion for visitors to any garden, great or small, historic or modern, public or private. * Countryman *This attractive and lavishly illustrated book is an ideal present for friends who claim not to know much about the history of gardens, but delight in visiting them * Cornwall Garden Trust Journal *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Types of Garden Styles of Garden Trees Plants & Flowers Landscape Features Garden Buildings Features Appendices Glossary Resources Index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"'Iceland was the only place I went without cause, just to be there,' the New York-based artist Roni Horn writes in Island Zombie, her attempt to explain her powerful affinity for the country. Pieced together from decades of essays, interviews, poetry and photographs, Horn's latest book is a reflection on the complex beauty of a place that she continues to return to "with migratory insistence and regularity."---Chris Allnutt, Financial Times"A wonderful, beguiling read in which Roni takes us deep into her experience of Iceland."---Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, A Brush With . . ."Island Zombie is a distillation of vignettes and essays on the natural and built environment (swimming pools are as much of a presence here as waterfalls), illustrated with the artist’s photographs. Often occupying no more than half a page, these fragmentary glimpses and reflections are indeed like “soil samples”, archived in an elegantly uncluttered volume that evokes Iceland’s forlorn emptiness as much as its places and people."---Nancy Campbell, Times Literary Supplement"Brilliant. . . . Prosaic and profound, [Island Zombie] felt like standing before art again."---Bridget Quinn, Hyperallergic"Sensually arresting . . . eloquent. . . . The first sections of the book will stoke the desire for a more in-depth study of Iceland; the others will interest veteran Iceland-watchers." * Kirkus Reviews *"Island Zombie is a thoughtful reflection on isolation, resilience, natural wonder, and living in the moment. Written by the contemporary artist Roni Horn, it’s the sort of book you find yourself returning to often — to ponder, to explore, and to be inspired. In fact, this book is more like an art project that you want to page through at random than a straightforward “travelogue.” Not only does it venture deep into the author’s obsession with Iceland, but it has something unique to say about why humans love to travel in the first place."---Steve Bramucci, UPROXX"At times quiet and at times chaotic, Island Zombie captures the incorporeality of a nation that embodies the evanescence of the northern lights and the ephemerality of fumarole vapor... The book is an artistic tribute to... the diminishing nowhereness of which Iceland, indistinct in its bleak high latitudes, so definitively represents."---Brendan Curtinrich, Split Rock Review"Roni Horn’s Island Zombie turns boredom into an asset…a chance to recharge and reflect."---Jean Bundy, Anchorage Press

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Book SynopsisHelps your students understand the process of construction and implementation of a multitude of exterior hardscape construction projects. This book begins with the preparation for construction and follows through to the installation of the final elements of the landscape project.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: BEFORE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS. 1. The Landscape Construction Process. 2. Legal Requirements. 3. Interpreting Construction Documents. 4. Construction Math. 5. Project Pricing. 6. Safety in the Workplace. 7. Basic Construction Techniques and Equipment Operation. 8. Construction Staking. SECTION 2: SITE PREPARATION. 9. Preservation of Existing Site Elements. 10. Removing Unwanted Site Elements. SECTION 3: GRADING, SITE DRAINAGE, AND EROSION PROTECTION. 11. Site Grading. 12. Site Drainage. 13. Erosion Control. SECTION 4: SITE UTILITIES. 14. DC Site Lighting and Related Electrical Work. 15. Water and Irrigation System Installation. SECTION 5: LANDSCAPE RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS. 16. Materials and Installation Techniques for Retaining Walls. 17. Timber Retaining Walls. 18. Segmental Precast Unit Retaining Walls. 19. Dry-Laid Stone Retaining Walls. 20. Gabion Retaining Walls. 21. Stairs. SECTION 6: LANDSCAPE PAVING. 22. Materials and Site Preparation for Paving. 23. Concrete Paving. 24. Unit Pavers. 25. Dry-Laid Stone Paving. 26. Mortared Paving. 27. Granular and Open Cellular Paving. SECTION 7: WOOD LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES. 28. Materials for Exterior Carpentry. 29. Wood Decks and Platforms. 30. Wood Stairs, Railings, Seating, and Skirting. 31. Overhead Structures. SECTION 8: FENCES AND FREESTANDING WALLS. 32. Fencing. 33. Freestanding Walls. SECTION 9: SITE AMENITIES. 34. Water Features and Bridges. 35. Site Furniture, Signage, Prefabricated Playground Equipment, Outdoor Kitchens, and Patio Amenities. 36. Edging, Planters, and Plant Protection Equipment. SECTION 10: PLANTING. 37. Plant Material Installation. 38. Establishment of Turf and Meadows.

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Book SynopsisIn 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world's top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.Trade Review"A mighty tome... the text is large and clear, and the picture size and quality exquisite. This is no coffee table book despite its appearance and glamour. It should be read from front to back... As a landscape architect myself, the book makes me proud... After 40 years' experience, this book motivates me like no other has before. It should be essential reading both in the practice and college environment." —The Garden Design Journal"This lavishly illustrated book... shows a surprising range of exciting approaches that landscape architects are taking today." —Architectural Record"30:30 presents convention-defying work by 30 up-and-coming and 30 established landscape designers." —Architectural Digest"The past few years have seen a revival in landscape design ...30:30 highlights the many ways in which design can be made to impact upon nature." —Wallpaper.com"Highlights how the field is evolving towards an ever more sophisticated approach." —Design Anthology"A fine showcase for outstanding work in this field... Environmental consciousness often extends to landscape design, and this collection will stimulate those readers as well as landscape professionals and students." —Library Journal"A wonderfully illustrated international journey... a tantalising glimpse of where the profession may be heading in the future. ...Kombol introduces several subtle departures from the standard format that makes this book an altogether more interesting read. ...Beautifully presented..." —Architecture Today"This gorgeous coffee-table book gathers the work of 60 people in the field of landscape architecture" —Publishers Weekly"A fine showcase for outstanding work in this field... Environmental consciousness often extends to landscape design, and this collection will stimulate those readers as well as landscape professionals and students." —Library Journal "Offers an insightful look at global landscape architecture and the issues facing architects today."—HamptonsArtHub.com "Landscape architecture gets the Phaidon treatment in this appealing and innovative coffee table book."—The Dirt "Meaghan Kombol’s overview of contemporary landscape architecture offers non-aficionados aerial views of some of the most breath-taking designs from 60 leading global landscape architects."—Amuse.com

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Book SynopsisPlanting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality - especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium “The Aesthetics of [Contemporary] Planting Design” addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is “location, location, location.” Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combination and composition.

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Book SynopsisDesigning the outdoor environment is a complex process. Landscape architects must take into account various factors such as space, distance and movement. This volume is a practical reference work for students as well as professionals. It provides all the key dimensions for vertical planning, vegetation and public spaces – everything one needs to design functional and use-specific landscapes.

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Book SynopsisFeatures 53 of the city's seminal structures, with specially commissioned illustrations accompanied by text. Once the card around the buildings is removed, you are left with your own version of Paris to treasure and display.Table of Contents0

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Book SynopsisLandscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscapeâ? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a discipline, profession, and medium. This book is intended for academics, researchers, and students in landscape architecture and cognate disciplines. Chapters address various overlooked aspects of landscape that develop, disturb, and diversify received understandings of the field. Framed as an inquiry into the relationship of landscape to the forms of human subjectivity, the book features contributions from leading voices who challenge the contemporary understandings of the field in relation to capital and class, race and gender, power and politics, and more.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.Trade Review"[A]n important book…An excellent introduction surveys Olmsted’s life and work and provides a general context for the well-chosen essays…Highly recommended." -- S. Hammer - CHOICE"[A]n ideal reference for students and professionals." -- Landscape Architecture"Olmsted, the most recognized landscape architects in United States history and the author of these papers, was celebrated as a member of the literati, way before he was connected with the field of landscape design. Historian Robert Twombly examines this background and Olmsted’s work, bringing the reader’s attention to some insightful remarks that put a different slant on this revered figure." -- Current Books and Reviews, Chicago Botanic Garden"[A]n important addition to Olmsted literature in print." -- National Association for Olmsted Parks"With this definitive new anthology, readers can delve into Olmsted’s personal thoughts on cities, urban parks, residential sites, and his theory of landscape architecture. These timeless writings have meaning for Olmsted’s era and our own." -- Lillian Civantos - Contract Magazine's "Talk Contract" blog

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Book SynopsisSir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic early career as a merchant, a soldier and a dramatist preceded Vanbrugh's acceptance of the role of architect to the Third Earl of Carlisle in 1699. His impact on architecture was paralleled by a revolution in landscape design as Vanbrugh shifted the place of the architect from the house to the grounds. He used the ancient rules of proportion combined with an empathetic approach to Nature to create innovative layouts that were geometric, but bore no relation to the formal gardens of the seventeenth century.In Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian Landscape Caroline Dalton seeks to explain Vanbrugh's distinctive style of landscape architecture. The natural and moral philosophy of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), Euclid, Plato and Epicurus is traced through the Arabic scientists of the Middle Ages into the Italian ReTrade Review"This lavishly illustrated book is rich in plans and aerial photographs, and the text is both highly erudite and very readable. This is a serious contribution to the history of a very important period in English landscape development" - Historic Gardens Review"This lavishly illustrated book is rich in plans and aerial photographs, and the text is both highly erudite and very readable. This is a serious contribution to the history of a very important period in English landscape development" - Historic Gardens Review"Dalton has diligently researched Vanbrugh, creating an excellent survey of his work. This book is certainly for historians of gardens as well as curious readers, like me." - Adele Kleine, Chicago Botanic GardenTable of Contents1. ‘On ye shoulders of giants’: Philosophy, Science and Landscape from the Ancients to the Moderns 2. The Early Enlightenment in England 3. John Vanbrugh (1664-1726): A Short Biography 4. Influences on Vanbrugh’s Landscape Style 5. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 6. Blenheim, Oxfordshire 7. Kimbolton, Heythrop and Grimsthorpe 8. Claremont, Surrey 9. Kings Weston, Avon 10. Duncombe Park and Sacombe Park 11. Eastbury, Dorset 12. Stowe, Buckinghamshire 13. Seaton Delaval, Northumberland 14. Greenwich and Lumley Castle 15. Vanbrugh’s legacy: Charles Bridgeman and the Vitruvian Landscape 16. Conclusion: ‘An Architect Who Composed like a Painter’

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Book SynopsisIn this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being. She examines the evidence behind the positive effects of designed landscapes, and explains effective methods and approaches which can be put into practice by those seeking to reduce costs and add value through outdoor spaces. Using principles from sensory, therapeutic and healing gardens, Souter-Brown focuses on landscape's ability to affect health, education and economic outcomes. Already valued within healthcare environments, these design guidelines for public and private spaces extend the benefits throughout our towns and cities.Covering design for school grounds to public parks, public housing to gardens for stressed executives, this richly illustrated text builds the case to justify inclusion of a designed outdoor area in project budgets.  With case studies from the US, UK, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, iTrade Review"You will not find a more comprehensive, informative, and well-researched compendium of healing, sensory, and therapeutic gardens, with real-life examples and case studies, written with a tangible passion for the subject. This book, containing answers to all your questions, is a definite must have!" - Marta Ratajszczak, Landscape Architects Network, landarchs.com"Presenting greenspace as a human lifeline, this is an excellent and accessible read for the practitioner and students alike. Concepts of architecture, design, sustainability and well being are blended with whole of life costing approaches to make the case for a supportive urban environment in which individuals, families, communities and business can thrive." - Teena Hale Pennington, CEO New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA)"A good, practical blueprint for creating urban spaces that offer health through nature." - Richard Louv, journalist, author and co-founder of the Children & Nature Network"Both comprehensive and informative, this publication adds immeasurably to the growing interest in the health-giving properties of green space to enhance liveable, sustainable cities. Covering design from school grounds to public parks, from public housing to private gardens, this richly illustrated text builds the case for including green spaces throughout our urban environments......It is refreshing to see coverage not just of the health benefits of urban green space but how interventions - large and small - provide social and economic benefits to communities. This is a rare, inclusive approach to thinking about how green nature can support us in our homes, neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces and healthcare facilities......This book is a rich and welcome addition to the debate." – World Health Design, Clare Cooper Marcus, University of California, Berkeley, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Origins And Evolution Of Healing Gardens 1. The History: What Were Gardens For? 2. Why Do We Need Gardens For Health And Well-Being Today?’ 3. Urban Space Degradation 4. Sustainable Communities Are Healthy Communities Part 2: Who Will Benefit From Healing Gardens? 5. Healing Gardens For Children 6. Healing Gardens For Adults 7. Healing Gardens And Cityscapes For Disabled Children And Adults 8. Healing Gardens For Stressed Executives 9. Cost Benefits Of Greening The Urban Environment Through Healing Gardens Part 3: Designing Healing Gardens Using An Inclusive, Salutogenic Approach 10. The Salutogenic Design Process 11. Salutogenic Design Guidelines - Simple Is Best 12. Inclusive Design - Key Design Elements Part 4: Additional Resources 13. Funding Sources For Public Sensory, Therapeutic And Healing Gardens 14. How And Where To Develop Community Green Space

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Book SynopsisOne of the foremost objectives of landscape architectural design is to impart an organizational order in the landscape. Heavily illustrated, this enlightening book introduces the basic elements and principles of design, and then explores the spatial language used to organize and shape landscape architectural design.Trade Review"A standard text that anyone interested in spatial design would welcome on the bookshelf." (The Garden Design Journal, April 2012)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Foundational Concepts. Chapter 1. Landscape Form. Chapter 2. Landscape Space. Orthogonal Forms. Chapter 3. The Straight Line. Chapter 4. The Square. Chapter 5. The Rectangle. Chapter 6. The Grid. Chapter 7. Symmetry. Chapter 8. Asymmetry. Angular Geometry. Chapter 9. The Diagonal. Chapter 10. The Triangle. Chapter 11. The Polygon. Circular Geometry. Chapter 12. The Arc. Chapter 13. The Circle. Chapter 14. The Oval. Chapter 15. The Curve. Chapter 16. The Organic.

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Book SynopsisDenna Jones, formerly deputy editor of Art & Architecture Journal, teaches on the MA Architecture course at Leeds Metropolitan University.Trade Review'Ravishing … the 1,000 illustrations echo with resonances both practical and aesthetic' - Independent'Inspired, comprehensive … will appeal to a broad readership' - Cassone'A must-have coffee table compendium for anyone with a passing interest in architecture' - FabricTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Prehistoric architecture • Neolithic Chapter 2. Architecture in the ancient world Period • Egypt and Neo-Sumerian • Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia • Teotihuacans • Olmec, Toltec, Mayan • Inca • China • Japan • Minoan and Mycenean • Greek Archaic, Classical Greece and Hellenistic Greek • Etruscan and Ancient Rome • Early Christian and Byzantine • Islamic Chapter 3. Medieval architecture • Pre-Romanesque • Romanesque • Gothic Chapter 4. Renaissance, Mannerism, and Baroque • Renaissance and Mannerism • Baroque • Churrigueresque • Colonial Chapter 5. The Enlightenment • Georgian • Neoclassical, Greek revival • Gothic revival • Regency Chapter 6. Modern Architecture • Beaux-Arts • Art Nouveau • Art Deco • Modernism • Organic, Expressionist Modern, and Biomimeticism • Constructivism • International Style • Brutalism, Metabolism • Futurist, Utopian • Postmodernism • High-Tech Modernism • Deconstructivism • New Vernacularism and Ecoism

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Book SynopsisServes as a reference for landscape architects, professionals and students designing external works. This volume covers landscape ponds, streams and waterfalls, fountains, edges, bank protection, revetments, dams, weirs and sluices, island rafts and jetties and drainage. It also provides technical guidance notes and drawn to scale detail sheets.Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Informal Landscape Ponds. Streams and Waterfalls. Fountains. Edges. Bank Protection. Revetments. Dams, Weirs and Sluices. Islands, Rafts and Jetties. Drainage Appendices: A. Bibliography and References B. Institutions and Associations C. Manufacturers and Suppliers D. Glossary E. Conversion Table F. Standard Graphic Symbols

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Book SynopsisA popular and practical guide on how to be an effective planning commissioner. Filled with checklists and outlines, it''s both a good introduction and a handy reference. Includes a training checklist for new commissioners, criteria for keeping a master plan in working order, lists of tools to guide growth, advice on how to deal with professional staff, and dos and don''ts for conducting successful public meetings. This edition sharpens the focus on how commissioners and their staffs can operate under four core principles for planning commissioners: citizen involvement, smaller is better, living in a market-driven system, and orderly growth.Table of ContentsPreface , Introduction to the Revised Edition , What Are These Amateurs Doing in Government? , Understanding the Language of Planning and Zoning , A Layperson's Guide to the Planning Process and the Tools That Make It Work , Prerequisites to Doing an Effective Job , Intramural Coordinating or the Art of Not Passing the Buck , Public Meetings and Public Relations , Due Process or How to Be Fair , Nuts and Bolts: Zoning and Development Review , Doing a Good Job on Small-Town and Rural Commissions , Sample Rules and Regulations for a Planning Commission , Sample Organization of a Planning Commission Agenda , Sample Environmental Assessment Form , Project Checklist , An Anatomy of the Classic Southwestern Land Fraud Scheme , Example of a Report on a Quasi-Judicial Action with Facts, Findings, and Recommendations 1 , Some Relevant Questions About You and Your Planning Commission , Author's Note

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Book SynopsisBeyond Bold: Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution follows the “Next Generation”of leadership at Oehme van Sweden, a landscape architecture firm that’s been creating extraordinary outdoor spaces for nearly 50 years. With 320 pages of vibrant photographs, detailed project plans, and first-hand commentary from principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, and Eric Groft, the book is a one-of-a-kind record of OvS’ history and evolution. Building upon OvS’ reputation for sustainable, client-tailored residential design, the current leaders have developed an ouvre that’s as legacy-driven as it is exploratory. From private gardens and pools to the expansive Tippet Rise Art Center in rural Montana to urban oases like the Chicago and New York Botanical Gardens, the projects featured in this book are masterpeices of both horticulture and hardscape. Arranged into thematic chapters - “The House and its Garden,” “Gathering Places,” “At the Water’s Edge,” “Urban Retreats” and “Farms and Fields - Beyond Bold: Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution is an image-rich study of some of the most geographically and stylistically diverse landscape projects by the top players in the industry.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space.Metropolitan cities are facing stark inequalities of green space distribution, hindering goals of sustainable development. But outside of human control, spontaneous nature grows in spaces that are neglected or are unaccounted for. Drawing on existing literature and primary research in a range of towns and cities, including Quito in Ecuador, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India, and Whitby in the United Kingdom, the book delves into the morphology, meanings, and values of those small-scale assemblages of wild growth which are typically overlooked. Discussing instead how such settings can be integrated into everyday urban life, the book offers a fresh perspective on issues around green infrastructure, heritage conservation, and environmental education, enabling cities worldwide to become more nature-positive.A unique exTrade Review"In this wide-ranging study Amartya Deb brings a range of recent debates about marginal urban spaces to an Indian context. Deb’s street level ethnographic focus explores the complexities of urban nature from multiple vantage points."Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK'Amartya Deb’s Wild Spaces in Urban Development: Grassroots Imaginaries in a Globalising World, expands our understanding of urban nature by focusing on what he terms ‘landscape fractions’ – the microsites in cities where wild nature asserts itself and often flourishes. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, particularly in Kolkata and Bengaluru, Deb highlights how such small spaces teeming with plant life enhance the urban environment, especially for communities without parks or other designed green spaces. Not incidentally, these scattered and informal wild spaces sustain diverse animals – including wildlife such as birds, insects, and small mammals, as well as grazing cattle – allowing them to persist and thrive. Deb’s extraordinary work makes clear why we should tend, and protect these small yet vital spaces for wild nature.'Jennifer Wolch, Dean Emerita, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, USATable of ContentsPrologue: The first sight of a cyborg assemblage 1. Morphology 2. Meanings 3. Existence 4. Aesthetics 5.Collectives 6. Coproduction 7. Frames 8. Imaginaries Epilogue: Situating wild spaces in urban nature and its governance

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Book SynopsisCompiled by AECOM, the 2024 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts, and forms an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects, contractors and local authority managers essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules no matter what the size of the project being undertaken.All prices have been updated via a short-term inflationary forecast combined with AECOM's market intelligence to ensure you have the most accurate cost data available. Activity descriptions and build ups have been updated to reflect changes to standard specifications, Building Regulation changes, emerging practices, and changing outputsAll the standard features you have come toTable of Contents1. General 2. Rates of Wages – Building Industry 3. Approximate Estimating Rates 4. Prices for Measured Works 5. Tables and Memoranda

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the reappropriation of territorial resources after centuries of the subordination of local and immigrant populations. The first part reviews cases from European sites, including examples from France, Germany, and Romania which highlight intangible heritage as the subject of a territorial project. A special focus is placed on the coalfields of northern France, a Unesco World Heritage site since 2012, where many experimental projects are being carried out. The second part explores the great American landscapes transformed by the extractive industry, in the United States, Brazil, and Chile. Fully illustrated throughout, photos showcase architectural and landscape achievements and drawings of future projects. Contributors respond to the design

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Book SynopsisThis inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of landscape make it more important than ever for landscape architects to seek innovation as a critical component in the forward development of a contemporary profession that merges expansive ideas and applications.The editors bring together leading contributors who are experts in new and pioneering approaches and technologies within the fields of academic and professional landscape architecture. The chapters explore digital technology, design processes and theoretical queries that shape the contemporary practice of landscape architecture. Topics covered include: Digital design Fabrication and prototyping Emerging technology Visualization of data Table of ContentsForeword (Brad Cantrell), Introduction: The Only Thing We Have to Fear (Daniel H. Ortega and Jonathon R. Anderson), Part I: Tools, 1. L A N D script _ data S C A P E: ‘Digital’ Agency within Manufactured Territories (Jose Alfredo Ramirez and Clara Oloriz Sanjuan), 2. An Interface for Instrumental Reconciliation (Alexander Robinson), 3. Computational Landscape Architecture: Procedural, Tangible, and Open Landscapes (Brendan Harmon, Anna Petrasova, Helena Mitasova and Vaclav Petras), 4. Get Animated! Dynamic Visualization and the Site Analysis Process (Ken McCown and Phil Zawarus), 5. The Landscape as Database (Chris Speed and Duncan Shingleton), 6. Discovering Landform Processes Through Creative 3d Mapping and Diagramming of Form, Pattern and Arrangement (Nadia Amoroso and Nadia D’Agnone), 7. Data Driven Landscape (Ming Tang), Part II: Processes, 8. Manufacturing Resonance (Michael Beaman and Zaneta Hong), 9. Expanded ‘Thick Description’: The Landscape Architect as Critical Ethnographer (Alison Hirsh), 10. Urban Morphology Phenomena: Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes (Laura Lovell-Anderson), 11. Ecological Urbanism: The Synthesis of Ethics, Aesthetics, and Cybernetics (Iman Ansari), 12. Engineering Nature (Patrick Franke and Nick Christopher), 13. Emergent Convergent Technology and The Informal Communities Initiative (Ben Spencer and Susan Bolton), 14. Varying Degrees of Impermanence: Art + Landscapes as Critical Provocation (Roberto Rovira), Part III: Profiles, Interview I: Mikyoung Kim Design (Mikyoung Kim), Interview II: PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture (Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys), Interview III: Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Landscape Architecture (Martin Felsen and Conor O’Shea), Interview IV: Rhode Island School of Design Department of Landscape Architecture (Suzanne Mathew)

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Book SynopsisThere is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this ''atmospheric turn'' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme''s most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been available in German. This is the only translated version authorised by Böhme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. It is a work which will provide rich references and a theoretical framework for ongoing discussions about atmospheres and their relations to architectural and urban spaces. Combining philosophy with architecture, design, landscape design, scenography, music, art criticism, and visual arts, the essays together provide a key to the concepts that motivate Trade ReviewA fascinating collection of essays by the German philosopher Gernot Böhme . . . the essays are thoughtfully translated, and usefully introduced, in a way that will make Bohme’s work accessible and engaging to a wide audience. The message of the book is inspirational in its shift from the study of objects toward experience, and it will sit nicely among similarly motivated titles in Bloomsbury Academic’s impressively burgeoning architecture library. * Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 18 *Table of ContentsForeword: ‘Ecstasies’ by Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh) Towards the Inside of Atmospheres: Translator’s Introduction Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic New Aesthetics Benjamin’s aura The concept of atmosphere in Hermann Schmitz’ philosophy The ecstasies of things Making atmospheres The critical potential of an aesthetics of atmospheres Conclusion The Ecstasies of Things: Ontology and aesthetics of thingness Subjectivism in aesthetics Terminological differentiations The prevalence of the thing in ontology Life within the world of things The closure of the thing within the main ontological models Alternative thing models The Thing Conclusion: Ontology and aesthetics Material Splendour: A Contribution to the Critique of Aesthetic Economy A golden ladle Material aesthetics Material beauty Particle board Internal design and invisible aesthetics Contribution to the critique of aesthetic economy Atmospheres in Architecture Weather and feelings Architecture and felt space Atmospheres as the subject matter of architecture The perception of architecture Architecture and space The atmosphere of a city Conclusion The Presence of Living Bodies in Space Developments in architecture and art history What is the space of bodily presence? Disposition Actuality and reality Atmospheres of Human Communication The utterly familiar Radiance Actualisation and disturbance of interpersonal atmospheres Contributions Learning to Live with Atmospheres: A new Aesthetic Humanist Education Objectives of aesthetic education Schiller’s On the aesthetic education of man in a series of letters Aesthetic humanist education under the conditions of technical civilisation and aesthetic economy Atmosphere as the object and medium of aesthetic education The Grand Concert of the World Introduction Modern art and the aesthetics of atmospheres The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space Music and soundscape, or the music of the soundscape Acoustic atmospheres Conclusion The Voice in Spaces of Bodily Presence Spatial sounds The rehabilitation of the voice The voice as an articulation of bodily presence Conclusion Light and Space The phenomenology of light Cleared space The space of light Lights in space Things appearing in light Light on things Lighting The Art of Staging as a Paradigm for an Aesthetics of Atmospheres Producing atmospheres Atmosphere – a well-known but extremely vague phenomenon Aesthetics of reception and production Fantastic art/unreliable fabrication Conclusion: the art of staging Church Atmospheres The numinous and the profanization of church spaces Sacred twilight – diaphanous light Silence and the Sublime Stone and space Genius Loci Afterword: ‘Atmospheres to Think About’ by Professor David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) References Index

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Book SynopsisA ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. Landskipping explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land, beginning in the eighteenth century when artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Meanwhile, at the same time, an entirely different band of people, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, looking at it in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty. What emerges as universal then and now is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written by Anna Pavord with zest, passion and deep understanding.Trade ReviewRangey, deeply felt and sometimes luminous ... Like the raking light that exposes ancient lynchets at sunset, such knowledge brings out new detail in the one particular view over a gate which Pavord has loved in all seasons, and which she now evokes for us as it changes through a full year. From the vantage point of this ending, I look back and find that the mixed landscape of the whole book is cast in a very beautiful light -- Alexandra Harris * Guardian *Intensely enjoyable … Anna Pavord is a beautiful writer who feels her subject deeply and with a lifetime’s enjoyment and understanding -- Lucy Lethbridge * Observer *A lyrical defence of our landscape, its language, and its freedom from meddling by various agencies ... a real pleasure * Mail on Sunday *The whole book reads like a conversation at some fantasy dinner party where all the guests are impeccably informed, fervently opinionated, gently witty and incurably passionate about the countryside. It darts from topic to topic, century to century, painter to ploughman, mountain to meadow, like some mercurially active salmon making its way up the Dart or the Dee. Yet miraculously – or, more likely, thanks to Pavord’s beautifully descriptive but never indulgent prose – it all hangs together. You can read the whole book in less time than it takes to go up and down Ben Nevis, and feel that you have bagged not just the king of Munros but the rural delights of an entire kingdom … Landskipping, however, is not some environmental rant. Pavord still sees plenty to celebrate about the British landscape, and plenty to send a delicious shiver up the spine as well * The Times *Her eye can catch the colouring of a distant hill, the move of sun across a contour and the run of sheep into a dark cwm. She can talk to rooks in the treetops and smell flowers in a hedgerow. She was born to the countryside purple. Landskipping is a hymn to the British landscape … intensely felt and totally engaged. … She is a beautiful writer -- Simon Jenkins * Country Life *Anyone who loves the variety and idiosyncrasies of the British countryside will relish this poignant celebration * Independent *Pavord is a great excavator of roots … Pavord threads together a patchwork of history, nature writing, polemic and memoir. Always she remains attuned to the sensual character of the environment … I was suitably entranced by its many splendid views and perspectives * Sunday Telegraph *Pavord writes thoughtfully, with deep and wide-ranging knowledge, of the land and what grows on it, of art, literature and the history of taste. And she writes from the heart – the heart of a countrywoman as well as the country-lover … The fruit of genuine observation, described with straining for effect, it’s a wonderful piece of writing – one of many in this superb, heartfelt and illuminating book * Literary Review *[A] winning study of English landscape -- Lucy Scholes * BBC Countryfile *An insight into landscape’s cultural impact to highlight the ability of wide open spaces to inspire and provide * Sunday Times *An inspiring overview * Sunday Express *A glorious and comprehensive celebration of all that is best in the British landscape … there is much beauty in what remains of the British landscape. How lucky we are to have a scholar of Anna Pavord’s stature to chronicle it * Literary Review *Intriguing … Scholarly, yet written with brio, her book should be read by all those who love our unique countryside * Catholic Morning Herald *A personal meditation on the nature of our British countryside that expands progressively to encompass a far broader view -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times *A grand tour around the British Isles … Anna Pavord proves, someone who has lived in the same place for 40 years can also bring fresh eyes * Myslexia *A thoughtful and deeply personal account … Pavord’s writing is pure delight – elegant, observant and funny * Gardens Illustrated *An American reader ends up wanting to invite Pavord, obviously a very thoughtful companion, on a trip to the Alaskan wilderness or the Californian desert * New York Times *Pavord is a Barbour waistcoat, warming you up nicely in advance of the prospect while leaving you free to wave your arms in wonder -- Books of the Year * Daily Telegraph *Her love of Britain’s landscape shines though in her beautifully written Landskipping, which wanders up mountain and down dale as it explores the different ways we have responded to the countryside over the centuries … An addictive ramble of a book -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' *Anna Pavord is the grande dame of that school of British nature writing that is about beautiful things, beautifully written…Pavord’s roots are in the earth, but her cultural knowledge is sky-high -- John Lewis-Stempel * The Times *

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Book SynopsisThis study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the remarkable rise of visual art across the county, along with the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it. It examines how Lancashire looked to great civilisations of the past for inspiration while also embracing new industrial technologies and distinctively modern art movements. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the new industrial society of the nineteenth century, from art lovers and collectors to urban and social historians.Table of Contents1. Introduction: art in the first industrial society 2. Lorenzo in Liverpool: William Roscoe, civic myths and the institutionalisation of urban culture 3. An ‘ornament to the town’? The Royal Manchester Institution and early public art patronage in Manchester4. From private to civic: the diverse origins of the municipal art gallery movement5. A ‘solid foundation’? Art schools and art education6. The art of philanthropy? The formation and development of the Walker Art Gallery7. A problem of scale and leadership? Manchester’s municipal ambitions and the ‘failure’ of public spirit8. Challenging ‘the ocean of mediocrity and pretence’? The alternative visions of the Whitworth and Harris Galleries9. The rise and fall of the municipal art gallery movement? The public and private dimensions of local civic artBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis“Shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners.” —Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and now his revolutionary approach is available to home gardeners. Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening’s counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and letting them naturally evolve over time. This lushly-photographed reference is for anyone looking for a better, smarter way to garden.

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Book SynopsisClimate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities to address climate impacts locally. Every day there are new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways--from rethinking transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise. Climate Action Planning is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change impacts. This fully revised and expanded edition goes well beyond climate action plans to examine the mix of policy and planning instruments available to every community. Boswell, Greve, and Seale also look at process and communication: How does a community bring diverse voices to the table? What do recent examples and research tell us about successful communication strategies? Climate Action Planning brings in new examples of implemented projects to highlight what has worked and the challenges that remain. A completely new chapter on vulnerability assessment will help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities. Sections on land use and transportation have been expanded to reflect their growing contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The guidance in the book is put in context of international, national, and state mandates and goals. Climate Action Planning is the most comprehensive book on the state of the art, science, and practice of local climate action planning. It should be a first stop for any local government interested in addressing climate change.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Climate Action Planning Chapter 2: Creating a Framework for Community Action Chapter 3: Community Engagement and Collaboration Chapter 4: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Chapter 5: Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities Chapter 6: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Chapter 7: Strategies for Resilient Communities Chapter 8: Pathways to Successful Implementation Chapter 9: Communities Leading the Way Chapter 10: Time to Take Action

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Book SynopsisAimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practise of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments.After discussing the history of the profession, the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy, human scale, unity, harmony, asymmetry, color, form, and texture. It looks at how design is represented through both drawing and modeling, and through digital techniques such as CAD and the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems). This is followed by an examination of project management and landscape management techniques. Finally, the book explores educational and employment opportunities and the future of the profession in the context of climate change and sustainability.Illustrated with international examples of completed projects, Landscape Architecture provides an invaluable, one-stop resource for anyone considering studying or a car

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Book SynopsisElwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book is informed by the belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face. The book comprises a series of essays that explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. Early chapters map the theoretical terrain for both landscape and artists’ moving image creating a foundation for the chapters that follow devoted to practice. These address themes of identity politics, performativity and animals and examine examples of British ‘weather-blown films’ and work from around the world including Indigenous Australian film landscapes. The book offers an informed, personal view of the subject and threaded through the narrative is a concern with the environment and the vexed question of whether an appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines a commitment to ecology. The book is written in a clear, engaging style and is enlivened by Elwes's own experiences as a video artist, writer and curator, and the primary material she draws on derived from conversations with fellow practitioners across the years. As a practitioner, Elwes was a key figure in the early phases of video art in the UK as well as a curator and critic. She was professor of moving image art at the University of the Arts London; and is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) This book will appeal to students, undergraduate and post-graduate, Ph.D. candidates, researchers, practitioners, teachers and lecturers and a general readership of interested gallery-going public.Trade Review'This is a beautifully-written, well-researched, thoughtful, generous and passionate book. It is one that seeks to make a difference not only to our knowledge of representations of landscapes by moving image artists but also to inspire new generations of eco-critically-minded artists to discover fresh ways to communicate urgent messages about the ongoing breakdown of the natural world. The book offers innovative explorations of how the moving image continues to facilitate understandings of our relationships to ‘natural’ landscapes. [...] This is an original, often inspirational work which offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view of landscape and moving image from the perspective of a highly knowledgeable artist.' -- Paul Newland, Journal of British Cinema and Television'Complex, yet highly readable. [...] The strength of Elwes’s writing is that she is not simply a film scholar discussing landscape and the moving image, but she is also an artist underpinning it with her experience of making videos, hence her interest in embodied and emotional responses to landscape. [...] Elwes takes great care to include a wide range of artists (using moving image or otherwise), sometimes returning to specific individuals, which creates a sense of continuity. Her stated focus is how artists might sensitively and ethically engage with the moving image in the landscape in the context of the environmental crisis.' -- Edwina fitzPatrick, MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal'Drawing on her lifetime’s work as an artist, a scholar, and an arts administrator, Catherine Elwes’s new book is magnificent. The book’s global reach (from Uluru to the Arctic), the erosion of white male colonial and pectatorial privilege entailed in her expanded geographical perspectives, and her contextualization of all questions of landscape in political issues together mark a decisive and much-needed scholarly paradigm shift, one at last responsive to our present ecological disasters.' -- Professor David James, University of Southern California'[Elwes’s] writing really brings the films to life in their absence. It made me intrigued about the films but the book also stands alone and apart from them, vividly offering images that the reader puts together from the text. It adds other dimensions to the films that are enough even if one were to never see the works themselves – as a piece of writing conjuring a rich critical dimension.' -- Dr Judith Rugg, co-editor of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture, and Issues of Curating Contemporary Art & Performance'Moving images are now everywhere in galleries and art biennials, and ecology is no longer a niche theme. Drawing on decades of making and writing about film and video, Elwes offers more than a guided tour. She offers encounters with the art, ideas and artists of the Anthropocene, and invites readers into rich conversations about and between feminism, decolonial critique and environmentalism with eloquence, passion and wit. You will never see landscape art the same way again.' -- Professor Sean Cubitt, University of MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction - The semiotics of the view - Eco-critical practices - The indivisibility of the human subject and nature - The text - The parameters - Author’s note 2. The Terms of Engagement - Landscape, space and place - Inside and outside - The ethnographic eye and documentary: Negotiations of the real - The contested status of the real - Taking a step back – crossing over 3. The Invention of Landscape - Landscape, the antithesis of city life - The sublime, the spiritual and the indifference of nature - The picturesque and the pastoral - The return of the picturesque and the romantic sublime 4. The Social Construction of Landscape - National identity, society and history - Framing trauma in the landscape - Property, ownership, colonialism and class identity 5. Landscape Subjectivities - Do you see what I see? - The perceiving subject - A template for seeing, touching, hearing and feeling - Emotion, affect and sensation in nature 6. Painted Landscapes - The tools of the trade - Taking the eye for a walk – perspectives in painting - The great outdoors 7. Frames and Sequences - Photographing the view - Slide-tape: Landscape in series 8. Talking Pictures: Narrative, Time, Colour and Sound - ‘Nature caught in the act’ - Narrative film: Background and foreground - The time base - Colour and black-and-white - Sound and silence 9. Talking Pictures: Framing the View and the Spectator - Framing the view - Point of view: The restless eye - The spectator 10. Artists’ Moving Image - ‘Unmade Narratives’: Experimental film - Video: The travelling companion - Digital media: No man’s land - Photogénie and the entanglement of matter 11. Weather-Blown Film - River Yar (1971–72), William Raban and Chris Welsby - Theory: Clouds and clocks - Wind Vane (1972), Chris Welsby - Feedback: Cybernetics 12. Being-With: Rocks, Sea and Sky - La Région Centrale (1971), Michael Snow - Aspect (2004), Emily Richardson - Sea-changed film: R.V. Ramani and David Gatten - This Is My Land (2006), Ben Rivers - Dawn Burn (1975–76), Mary Lucier - Interwoven Motion (2004), Chris Meigh-Andrews - The wide blue yonder: Semiconductor, Susan Collins, James Turrell and James Benning 13. Getting the Shivers: Empathic Projection and the Elements - Jack Lauder and Lloyd Branson, Zacharias Kunuk, Oscar Muñoz, Bill Viola, Joan Jonas and William Raban 14. Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the ‘Vexed’ Question of Landscape - Preconceptions - The antipodean gaze - Refiguring landscapes - Imagining a future 15. Landscape and Identity Politics - Signatures - Slavery and the African Diaspora: The Black body in the landscape - Mother Earth - Queering the landscape - Fault lines – masculinity 16. Performing the Landscape - Acting out in Merrie England - Performing matter - Shifting the scenery 17. Animals - A pantomime of animals - Captive animals: A transaction of the gaze - ‘Companion animals’ - Cruelty to animals - Discreet courtship 18. 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Book SynopsisWay to the West is a glorious collection resulting from a collaboration between disciplines of art. Featuring twenty-five beautiful full-page watercolours alongside accompanying poems, its focus is on the western tip of Cornwall. For Andy and Vally Cornwall’s geographical remoteness, its abiding attraction as a holiday location, its proud fishing and mining history and the varying and often dramatic moods of its weather and sea are an inspiration and cause for celebration. The profound emotional and psychological effects on visitors to Cornwall is not lost on the authors, who have a long association with the area, having walked its entire coastline and holidayed there for over a half a century. Way to the West is a celebration of the natural world and the home, the past and the present, and of the fierce interconnectedness of people with their landscape.

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Book SynopsisA history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed landscape in North Yorkshire. Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in 1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful designed landscapes ever created. This richly illustrated volume charts the landscape's history from the first arrival of prehistoric hunters, via medieval monasticism, the Dissolution of the monasteries, eighteenth-century aestheticism and scandal, and the first ages of mass tourism, to the present day. At the heart of the story lies the rise and fall of England's largest Cistercian monastery and how that shaped the origins of the Aislabie family's breathtaking gardens. Their Studley Royalwas at the forefront of every emergent landscape gardening fashion between 1670 and 1800. The book also describes the dramatic history of the family and the monumental scale of their achievements in this field, extending over many dozens of square miles of North Yorkshire - far beyond the limits of the garden as it is seen today (reduced to serve the more limited needs of Victorian day-trippers). The Wonder of the North brings social and garden history together with archaeology to reveal Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal - too often seen as "just" a ruined medieval monastery - as one of the world's greatest artistic creations. Mark Newman has been the National Trust's archaeological adviser for Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate since 1988. He was also resident there, living in Fountains Hall from 1988-1995.Trade Review[A] uniquely complete and beautiful book...The book is produced to the very high standards which we expect of Boydell. * NORTHERN HISTORY *A fascinating story, not only of a garden and the historical events that affected its development, but of the people who created it. It is also a beautifully produced book - thoughtfully laid out in manageable chapters that take you through the history of this World Heritage site..Anyone interested in garden history will not be disappointed. * ENGLISH GARDEN *This is a sumptuous volume that does justice to a place whose splendour has been acknowledged by its designation as a World Heritage Site. * FOLLIES MAGAZINE *This thorough and illuminating history...is a welcome addition to the history of the English landscape garden. * COUNTRY LIFE *Table of ContentsPreface: The 'Wonder of the North' Priming the Canvas: Natural and Man-Made Landscapes Before 1132 Utility and Sanctity: Fountains Abbey and its Surroundings 1132-1540 From Dissolution to Resurrection: The Manors of Fountains and Studley, 1539-1667 Founding a Dynasty: The Emergence of Studley Royal Emerging Wonders: The Unfolding of a Designed Landscape, 1723-42 Filling the Landscape: William Aislabie at Studley, 1742-67 Beyond Studley's Domain: Kirkby Fleetham, Hackfall, Laver Banks and Fountains Estates Combined: Fountains and Studley, 1768-81 Arcadia Declining: The Estate in the Earlier Nineteenth Century A Place of Popular Resort: The Rising Tide of Visitors Relicts of Our Own Days Conclusion: A Future for Studley Royal

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Book SynopsisLancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision, and fantasy, of rural England. In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, and his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown, from his childhood and apprenticeship in rural Northumberland, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, and his affable and generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 and his clients and friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists and actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England, Brown never ceased working until he collapsed and died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary, always willing to try something new. As this beautifully illustrated biography shows, Brown filled England with enchantment - follies, cascades, lakes, bridges, ornaments, monuments, meadows and woods - creating views that still delight us today.Trade ReviewBrown's book is a good read -- Jane Owen * Financial Times *Jane Brown has dug deep into the archives and has written an exhaustive and beautifully illustrated biography that has been long overdue... Those who love his gardens...will be delighted with this book -- Andrea Wulf * Mail on Sunday *Robust and revealing * Independent *Her book should find a home in any garden-lovers' glove compartment , offering a detailed map of Lancelot's England * Spectator *Sympathetic, beautifully illustrated study -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *

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Book SynopsisTo celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition participants at the time. Many of the images are rarely seen, if ever before published, whilst others are better known.Together with quotations from the diaries of expedition participants, they tell the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 which saw the first use of ponies and motor cars in the Antarctic; achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus; achieved the first attainment of the South Magnetic Pole; and, took Shackleton within 100 miles of the South Geographic Pole to attain a dramatic new 'Farthest South' record. This was the expedition that made Shackleton's name as an explorer and for which he was awarded his knighthood. Edited by Dr. D. M. Wilson, "Nimrod Illustrated" is a treat for anyone interested in Shackleton, the Antarctic, polar exploration or the atmosphere of the Edwardian age. It is a part of the well regarded series commenced with "Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition" (2001).Trade ReviewNimrod Illustrated will never be bettered. A magnificent work of gathering and arrangement, devotedly and thoroughly researched, it reproduces and explains a great number of original images, many of them hard to find, of Shackleton's less familiar but quite extraordinary expedition. This lively, well designed and produced volume should surely be in the private libraries of all discriminating Heroic Age enthusiasts. (Jan Piggott).

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Book SynopsisAutopsy of America takes you through the tattered remnants of the United States of America in a way that you never seen before. The beautiful apocalyptic landscapes consisting of abandoned schools, factories, shopping malls, amusement parks, theaters, hospitals, sport arenas, homes even entire towns offer a visual diagnostic to some of the county''s true ills. The captivating images are accompanied by Lawless'' personal anecdotes and thoughtprovoking stories that are equally riveting as the images.

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Book SynopsisJohn L. Wong’s work with Stanford University both reclaims Leland Stanford and Frederick Law Olmsted’s 100-year-old vision while also building on that legacy to create a beautiful, resilient campus environment that facilitates learning in the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisThe book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.Trade Review"The book draws lessons that draw on inclusive, contextual, and multiscalar readings to suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable." [Translated from original language of Italian] - Topscape PaysageTable of ContentsForeword 8 Landscape as Approach: Engaging Medium-as-Method Nina-Marie E. Lister Preface 11 Crafting Socio-Environmental Entanglements in a World of Growing Uncertainties Hannes Zander Introduction 21 Hannes Zander, Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, Sonja Vangjeli 1. PLANNING METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS 1.1 Wild, Connected, and Diverse 35 The Role of Landscape Architects in Establishing the Natural Ecosystem of Canada’s Largest City Jane Welsh 1.2 Perspectives on Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in Toulouse, France 45 Aliza Sovani 1.3 A Reflexive Approach to Uncertainty 55 Situating Planning Practice in the Landscape of Afghanistan’s City-Regions Justin Kollar, Thomas Nideroest, Mirwais Rahimi 1.4 Ecological Infrastructure as a Systematic Approach to Water Issues 67 Guangzhou’s Sponge City Planning Hexing Chang, Dong Wang 1.5 Anchoring Our Cities in Ecological Identity 79 Jennifer A. Dowdell, Keith Bowers 2. BUILDING ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURES 2.1 Port Lands Flood Protection 93 A Landscape Infrastructural Approach Shannon Baker, Sonja Vangjeli 2.2 Urban Water as a Resource, Not as Waste 103 The Case for Medium-Scale Hydric Districts in Mexico City Adriana Chávez, Elena Tudela, Víctor Rico 2.3 Livable Waterways for a Water-Sensitive Transition for Cape Town 115 2.4 Qanatscape 127 Revealing the Historic Water Landscape of the Qanat to Inform Future Green Infrastructure in Cities of Arid Iran Malihe Chamani 2.5 Eternal Ephemera 137 Soft Infrastructures in the Floating City of Uros, Peru Alberto De Salvatierra 3. READING SOCIO-POLITICAL LANDSCAPES 3.1 Forest Plantations as Spatiotemporal Reclamation Strategy 149 Julia Smachylo 3.2 Earth Moves 159 Singapore’s Land Reclamation Projects and the Construction of Territory Hans Hortig 3.3 “Hic et Nunc”Palimpsests 169 Reconstructing Historical Natures through the Malm Territory of Extraction Berta Flaquer 3.4 The Living and Breathing Map of Sámi Reindeer Herding 181 Kjerstin Uhre, Eli Ristin Skum 4. PLANNING FOR TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS 4.1 On the Edge 195 Re-Framing Our Understanding of a Nissological Territory Matthew A. J. Brown, Sandra Cooke 4.2 WaterLore for the Drylands 207 Strategies for Activating Cultural Waters in Regimes of Extraction Antonia Besa, Gini Lee 4.3 Conservation Through Indigenous Treaty Revival 217 Duffin’s Creek, Williams Treaties Area Sheila Boudreau, Gary Pritchard 4.4 Blue Gold 229 Agricultural Infrastructure & Climate Change in the Sahel Matthew Poot 5. NEW MODELS OF PRACTICE 5.1 Codesign, Collaboration, and Systems Change 243 Reflections on Innovative Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Practice Centered on Action in Landscapes of Conflict Shelagh McCartney, Nina-Marie Lister, Jeffrey Herskovits 5.2 Resensitizing Urban Waterways and Their Publics 255 Ecological Art in the Built and Unplanned Environment in the Work of Mare Liberum Kendra Sullivan, Dylan Gauthier, Sunita Prasad 5.3 A Strategy-Driven Model for Sustainable Socio-Environmental Transformations in Chile 265 Flavio Sciaraffia 5.4 Learning Development by Doing 277 The Evolution of the Resilient Civic Design Collective Lindsay Howe, Ben Mansfield 5.5 Collaborative and Strategic Approaches to Build Urban Resilience in India 289 Sourav Kumar Biswas, Praveen Raj, Shreya Krishnan, Manushi Ashok Jain, Balaji Balaganesan, Suriya KP, Sujhatha Arulkumar, Aditi Subramanian, Logeshwaran Subramanian, Pankti Sanganee (Sponge Collaborative) Editors 301 Contributors 302 Additional Image Credits, Notes 304

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to help readers rediscover the sacredness of the everyday landscapes around them in order to shed light on the ecological imperatives of our time. Drawn from the union of art, nature, and metaphysics, it presents some of the myths and legends of antiquity as they might be recognised by our modern society of earth-shapers. Through word and image the authors reference the ecological and environmental concepts found at the core of traditional environmental knowledge and provide a new context for environmental engagement that merges the spiritual and phenomenological with the scientific and empirical. Wisdom of Place can be used by anyone — from creatives to spiritual seekers, landscape architects to coders — to call forth the voice of the genius loci — the spirit of place — and reveal the creative forces and hidden currents of nature.Table of Contentsintroduction 7 acknowledgments 12 the major arcana 14 The Green Man 16 The Biosphere 20 The Doors of Perception 24 Pachamama 28 Organic Proportion 32 The Geometer 36 The Green Woman 40 Alignments 44 The Hydrologic Cycle 48 Deep Ecology 52 Green Mandala 56 Geomancy 60 Axis Mundi 64 Metamorphosis 68 The Tree of Life 72 Koyaanisqatsi 76 Ecotones 80 Polaris 84 The Moon 88 The Sun 92 Closed Loop 96 Genius Loci 100

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