ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape

Mapping urban spaces: designing the European city

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Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sus…

Mapping urban spaces: designing the European city

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"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities, and more specifically on their open spaces from a psychological, sociological and aesthetic point of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and s…

Regulating coastal zones: international perspectives on land management ins…

fromUrban planning and environment

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"Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from env…

Green landscapes in the European city, 1750-2010

fromRoutledge studies in modern European history

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"Green space is a fundamental concept for understanding modern and contemporary urban society, shedding light not only on the ecological development of cities but also societal relations, urban governance and planning processes. Closely linked to issues of environmental change, …

The virtual and the real in planning and urban design: perspectives, practices and applications

fromRoutledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

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The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media a…

Arcadia updated: raising landscape awareness through analytical na…

by Fiskevold, Marius, Geelmuyden, Anne Katrine

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Arcadia Updated delves into the concept of landscape as it is shaped by the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral. Referring to several of the tradition's works as well as scholarly critiques, Fiskevold and Geelmuyden highlight how individual landscape percepti…

Public space reader

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"Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public resources,…

Small-scale urban greening: creating places of health, creativity, and ecolog…

by Loder, Angela

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"Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of green spaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban natur…

Designing urban agriculture: a complete guide to the planning, design, constru…

by Philips, April

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"This full-color guide offers a complete overview of edible landscapes from the planning, designing, and funding to the management and maintenance of these communal spaces and ecodestinations. Featuring case studies of innovative projects, it offers complete coverage of a dozen …

Designing urban agriculture: a complete guide to the planning, design, constru…

by Philips, April

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"This full-color guide offers a complete overview of edible landscapes from the planning, designing, and funding to the management and maintenance of these communal spaces and ecodestinations. Featuring case studies of innovative projects, it offers complete coverage of a dozen …

The Routledge handbook of landscape architecture education

fromRoutledge international handbooks

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"In this handbook, sixty authors, senior and junior educators and researchers from six continents, provide an overview of two hundred years of landscape architectural education. They tell the stories of schools and people, of visions, and of experiments that constitute landscape…

Proportionate share impact fees and development mitigation

by Nelson, Arthur C., Nicholas, James C., Juergensmeyer, Julian Conrad, Mullen, Clancy J.

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"After decades of evolving practice often tested in court, development impact fees have become institutionalized in the American planning and local government finance systems. But they remain contentious especially as they continue to evolve. This book is the third in a series o…

Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn

by Ponzini, Davide

fromRoutledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

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"Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, incr…

Sustainable urban futures in Africa

fromRoutledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

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"Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem …

Great city parks

by Tate, Alan

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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of wh…

Why Cities Need Large Parks: Large Parks in Large Cities

by Murray, Richard

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The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, when large urban parks repre…

Green wedge urbanism: history, theory and contemporary practice

by Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano

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As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the 'gree…

Green wedge urbanism: history, theory and contemporary practice

by Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano

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Green wedges in history. Urban planning with nature -- The emergence and diffusion of the green wedge idea -- Towards a bright future: green-wedge visions for the post-war period -- Polycentrism and regional planning -- Green wedges today. Green spaces, networks and contemporary…