Landscape Books

New and Published Books

1. The Florentine Villa

   Architecture History Society

   By Grazia Gobbi Sica

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

   Policy and Governance in a Changing World

   Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe

   **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Systemic Architecture

   Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City

   By Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero

   This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Visualizing Climate Change

   A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions

   By Stephen R.J. Sheppard

   Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Representing Landscapes

   A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings

   Edited by Nadia Amoroso

   What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method? What are the right choices to make? Are there right and wrong choices when it comes to presenting a particular environment in a particular way? The...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Managing Cultural Landscapes

   Edited by Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

   Edited by Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos, Daniel Schodek

   You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Temporary City

   By Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

   Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies....

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian Landscape

   By Caroline Dalton

   Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic early career as a merchant, a soldier and a dramatist preceded Vanbrugh’s acceptance of the role of architect to the Third Earl of Carlisle in...

   Published January 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. To Design Landscape

    Art, Nature & Utility

    By Catherine Dee

    To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using...

    Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge