"In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last fifteen years with new…
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Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have …
"New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century. It contextualises spatial transformations and discourse about New York during the Great Depression and the Second Wor…
"The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The …
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 la…
In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manifo…
Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industri…
With blue, green, and gold foliage and shapes ranging from spiky to weeping, conifers have the potential to be garden design stars. But they are commonly misused in gardens and landscapes, leading to looming spruces squashed against a house or rows of kettledrum-shaped yews alon…
The affordable housing reader
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"This second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communit…
"No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of 'symptoms' - increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfires events, salinification and desertification of …
"This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the Second World War, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways. The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of arch…
"This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the Second World War, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways. The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of arch…
Designing with plants
by Wöhrle, Regine Ellen, Wöhrle, Hans-Jörg
fromBasics (Basel, Switzerland)
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A systematic overview of design principles for the use of plants and their application in the design process.
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues th…
"Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly. Planning theory and practice have taken an increasing interest in the role and power of narrative, and yet there is no comprehensive study of how narrative, and concepts from narrative and literary theory more bro…
"'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could cre…