Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability: Creating Positive Change Through Design (Zeunert Joshua)(Paperback)

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability: Creating Positive Change Through Design (Zeunert Joshua)(Paperback)

Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and

Events and Sustainability (Holmes Kirsten)(Paperback)

Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for

Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability (Banerjee Gangadhar)(Paperback)

Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability is a timely publication. Differences in availability of water among the regions, the magnitude of variability, the timing and duration of high and low supply of water and its many uses have significant implications on Natural Ecosystems which are of

Creating Change Through Humanism (Speckhardt Roy)(Paperback)

Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-Conceptualising Design and Making (Walliss Jillian)(Paperback)

Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and making in landscape architecture. While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, their application within design practice is far

Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication (Lewis Laurie)(Paperback)

A comprehensive guide to essential theories and practices of change creation and implementation Organizational Change provides an essential overview to implementing deliberate and focused change through effective communication strategies. Author Laurie Lewis integrates academic rigor with

The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice (Laurent Eloi)(Paperback)

Foundations of Landscape Architecture (Booth Norman)(Paperback)

A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment

Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Swaffield Simon)(Paperback)

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures,

Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture (Leatherbarrow David)(Paperback)

Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design (Rottle Nancy)(Paperback)

Energy Systems and Sustainability (Everett Bob (The Open University))(Paperback / softback)

Energy Systems and Sustainability provides an exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features.From an overview of the historical evolution of the world's energy systems,

Leadership for Sustainability: Strategies for Tackling Wicked Problems (Hull R. Bruce)(Paperback)

Solving today's environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. Effective solutions will require that we engage with other people, wrestle with difficult questions, and learn how to adapt and make confident decisions despite uncertainty. We need new

Business and Sustainability (Blowfield Michael)(Paperback)

Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in contemporary business today. Increasingly, new enterprises are being established to address key twenty-first century environmental challenges, incumbent industries

Land Art: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art (Malpas William)(Paperback)

LAND ART: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTHWORKS, NATURE, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION ART A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art. A newly updated and revised edition of our best-selling book. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land

An Introduction to Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives (Mulligan Martin)(Paperback)

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of

Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Baker Kate)(Paperback)

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together. It has a long and varied history, ranging from the early paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and as a stage for social display. The enclosed

Landscape Architecture (Thompson Ian)(Paperback)

Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the

Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design (Thorbeck Dewey)(Paperback)

Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design follows on from the author's previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to encourage using design thinking to provide greater meaning and understanding of places where humans live and work with the rural landscape. Rural

Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Strengthening the Links with Crime Science (Armitage Rachel)(Paperback)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a practice-oriented approach to reduce the risk of offences such as burglary and fear of crime by modifying the built environment. In recent years, this approach has been criticised for duplicating terminology and for failing to integrate

The Only Diet There Is (Ray Sondra)(Paperback)

Here is a book to change your life. It is a method for losing weight through positive thinking and the changing of attitudes toward life and food. 'This, of course, is no ordinary 'diet' book...This is an extraordinary approach to weight loss--a diet of forgiveness, a fast from negative

Landscape Analysis: Investigating the Potentials of Space and Place (Stahlschmidt Per)(Paperback)

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality. Landscape Analysis provides an introduction to the field both in theory and in

Visual Research Methods in Architecture (Troiani Igea)(Pevná vazba)

This book uses visual research methods to investigate architecture, landscape design and interior architecture. It presents a diverse selection of interdisciplinary approaches for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice for the purpose of

Architecture in Context: Contemporary Design Solutions Based on Environmental, Social and Cultural Identities (Plan The)(Pevná vazba)

Architecture in Context analyzes the work of contemporary international architects through the presentation of projects that exemplify their architectural vision and their connection with the spaces with which they work. It explains how the interaction between architecture and landscape is a