Built Environment: Landscape

Edited by Julia Lossau, Quentin Stevens

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

By B. Deniz Çalis-Kural

Şehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. This book examines the urban culture of Ottoman Istanbul through Şehrengiz, as the Ottoman space culture and…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
Routledge

By Dora Francese

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration. Part I provides theoretical and methodological insights into technological approaches that offer optimum respect to existing cultural and natural environments, while offering minimum impact and carbon footprint.…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Edited by Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments…

Hardback – 2018-01-23
Routledge
Urban Planning and Environment

By Jana VanderGoot

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent…

Paperback – 2017-12-20
Routledge

By Kendra Schank Smith, Albert C. Smith

An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility,…

Paperback – 2017-12-13
Routledge

By Catherine Heatherington

The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and…

Hardback – 2017-12-11
Routledge
Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

Edited by Barbara Humberstone, Heather Prince, Karla A. Henderson

The ‘outdoors’ is a physical and ideological space in which people engage with their environment, but it is also an important vehicle for learning and for leisure. The Routledge Handbook of Outdoor Studies is the first book to attempt to define and survey the multi-disciplinary set of approaches…

Paperback – 2017-12-08
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Tibor Hartel, Tobias Plieninger

Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe. The structure of wood-pastures is strongly influenced by grazing and multiple other land uses and by local and regional environmental conditions.…

Paperback – 2017-12-08
Routledge

Edited by Alessandro Ossola, Jari Niemelä

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific…

Paperback – 2017-12-01
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology

By Peter H. Dernoeden

Creeping bentgrass is considered the premier turfgrass species grown on golf courses, and there is a growing demand for an understanding of its maintenance and management practices. Still the only comprehensive reference on the subject, Creeping Bentgrass Management, Second Edition helps you…

Paperback – 2017-11-22
CRC Press

By Gary A. Boyd, John McLaughlin

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly,…

Paperback – 2017-11-22
Routledge