Landscape Art & Architecture

An understanding of architects character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills...

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...

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban wilderness landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, th...

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and pl...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

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

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

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

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable p...

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

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

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of infor...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

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

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Desi...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, ...

Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change, and cul...

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Todays most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influ...

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...

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural m...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux...

This book provides a detailed coverage of the landforms of Planet Earth and the processes that shaped them. The study of these morphologies, some o...

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

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitts life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role ...

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

The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impos...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

How can photography be transformed into an active process of investigation for landscape architecture and environmental design? The second book in ...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

First published in 1983. An easy-to-read book about zoning that cuts the jargon out but leaves the wisdom in. Smith explains the fundamental princi...

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multif...

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, senti...

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid an...

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

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

A major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as m...

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, w...

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and pl...

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focus...