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To Design Landscape: Art, Nature and Utility
By Catherine Dee
To Design Landscape is about aesthetic practice in contemporary landscape design. It offers both highly practical lessons and a cultural philosophy of landscape design at a time of ecological necessity. In it, Dee combines theory with a striking visual format and image-based ‘lessons...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-58505-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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European Gardens: History, philosophy and design
By Tom Turner
Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilisation as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-49684-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2011
By Davis Langdon
Now in its 30th edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2011 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. All the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts are covered, forming an indispensable reference book for...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-58849-2 | Hardback (Spon Press)
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Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design
By Tom Turner
The gardens made on the fringes of Central Asia in the past 5000 years form a great arc. From the Fertile Crescent, it runs west to Europe and east to China and Japan. Asia's fringe was a zone of interchange: a vast landscape in which herders encountered farmers and the design of symbolic gardens...
August 2010 | 978-0-415-49687-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities
Edited by Jeffrey Hou
In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-77966-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2
Edited by Catharine Ward Thompson, Simon Bell, Peter Aspinall
Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-54911-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge
By David Haney
Today, contemporary landscape design is increasingly drawing from ideas of sustainability and ecological stability. Not in fact new, the foundations of this approach stem from early twentieth century Germany, where architects and planners were already beginning to use the design concepts...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-56139-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Smartcities and Eco-Warriors
By CJ Lim, Ed Liu
Modern methods of agriculture have led to cities growing out of control and reducing the available agricultural land, threatening the sustainability of our food system. The previous mutually sustaining relationships of animals, humans and the land have been lost with the progress of industry. The...
February 2010 | 978-0-415-57124-1 | Paperback (Routledge)