Natural and man-made architectural infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, overarching whole. This book examines this new and ecologically sustainable approach.
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INFRASTRUCTURE, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of our rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent…
Infrastructure is a much discussed topic within the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning and urban design approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, ove…
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"This book ... examines the potential of landscape as infrastructure via essays by notable authors and supporting case studies by SWA landscape architects and urban designers ... ". --BOOK JACKET.
Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA
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Infrastructure is a much discussed topic within the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning and urban design approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, ove…
Dedicated to the study of town and country planning, this book offers detailed discussions of key concepts within this multidisciplinary field, covering areas such as sustainability, regeneration, environment and community.
Organized around 19 short essays, this book provides an introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in planning. Involving detailed and expansive discussions, the text includes an introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent develop…
"Planning as a subject for study is one of the most multidisciplinary: practice and theory cut across and draw on a breadth of social sciences and other influences. It is an integrative concern, an endlessly dynamic and interesting field for study and reflection, Moreover the ai…
This study investigates how shifting property regimes produced by global inequities in power affect indigenous groups' access to land. Further, it explores the various means that indigenous populations use to legitimate their claims to land in a climate of shifting property regi…
"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happen…