Gardens (Descriptions, History Etc)

Sri Lanka takes its place in Asian garden history not only by virtue of its chronicle accounts, inscriptional records and literary descriptions of ...

Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept e...

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...

Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highes...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglect...

Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relat...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and l...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly re...

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architects Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to env...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century Gothic villa and garden beside the Rive...

Architects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice. Over the past...

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. D...

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from t...

Conceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental ...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...