Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being, Souter-Brown, Gayle

Автор: Tankard Judith B.
Название: Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect
ISBN: 1580935931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580935937
Издательство: Phaidon Press Ltd.
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The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.

Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.

Born into a prominent New York family (she was Edith Wharton's niece), Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University surrounded by a naturalistic park restored and maintained by the National Park Service. Deeply influenced by the English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the hecirculation through it.

Heavily illustrated with archival images and photographs of her gardens at their peak--many taken especially for this book, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect also displays beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at College of Environmental Design of the University of California at Berkeley. The new edition includes updated images that reflect the current state of gardens including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, the International House Courtyard at the University of Chicago, Garland Farm (Farrand's last home and garden, which has recently been restored), Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park (which was not included in the first edition), among others.

The book concludes with a comprehensive list of Farrand's commissions and the gardens open to the public, providing direction for further study and exploration. It also features a new preface outlining the milestones in research since the first edition's publication, updated details about ownership and renovations of many properties, and a revised bibliography including articles and books published over the past ten years.

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. Tankard, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect takes readers on a tour of Farrand's finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects.

Автор: Kombol Meaghan
Название: 30:30 Landscape Architecture
ISBN: 0714869635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714869636
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Описание: In 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world`s top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.

Автор: Patricia A Wilson
Название: The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe. Taylor & francis ltd. ISBN 9780367175825
ISBN: 0367175827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367175825
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Описание: Drawing on first-hand accounts of action research in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, The Heart of Community Engagement illustrates the transformative learning journeys of exemplary catalysts for community-based change.

Автор: Robert Harland
Название: Graphic Design in Urban Environments
ISBN: 1472597745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472597748
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Graphic Design in Urban Environments introduces the idea of a category of designed graphic objects that significantly contribute to the functioning of urban systems. These elements, smaller than buildings, are generally understood by urban designers to comprise such phenomena as sculpture, clock towers, banners, signs, large screens, the portrayal of images on buildings through “smart screens,” and other examples of what urban designers call “urban objects.”The graphic object as it is defined here also refers to a range of familiar things invariably named in the literature as maps, street numbers, route signs, bus placards, signs, architectural communication, commercial vernacular, outdoor publicity, lettering, banners, screens, traffic and direction signs and street furniture. One can also add markings of a sports pitch, lighting, bollards, even red carpets or well dressings. By looking at the environment, and design and deconstructing form and context relationships, the defining properties and configurational patterns that make up graphic objects are shown in this book to link the smallest graphic detail (e.g. the number 16) to larger symbolic statements (e.g. the Empire State Building). From a professional design practice perspective, a cross section through type, typographic, graphic and urban design will provide a framework for considering the design transition between alphabets, writing systems, images (in the broadest sense) and environments.

Автор: Souter Brown Gayle
Название: Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being
ISBN: 0415843529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415843522
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A full colour guide to designing gardens and landscapes for health and well-being.

Автор: Fritz Wagner, Roger Caves
Название: Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities
ISBN: 0415779901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415779906
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Описание: What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/alternatives to the elderly, the significance of walkability as a factor in developing a livable and healthy community, the importance of good open space providing for human activity and health, restorative benefits, the importance of coordinated land use and transportation planning, and the relationship between livability and quality of life. While much of the discussion of this topic is usually theoretical and abstract, Wagner and Caves use case studies from North America, Brazil and the United Kingdom to provide substantive examples of initiatives implemented across the world. This book fills an important gap in the literature on livable communities and at the same time assists policy officials, professionals and academics in their quest to develop livable communities.

Автор: Coles Richard
Название: Landscape, Well-Being and Environment
ISBN: 0415831512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415831512
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Описание: Researchers from around the world link human well-being with landscape and the environment

Автор: Richard Coles, Zoe Millman
Название: Landscape, Well-Being and Environment
ISBN: 0415829984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415829984
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Описание: Researchers from around the world link human well-being with landscape and the environment

Автор: Richard Bohannon
Название: Public Religion and the Urban Environment: Constructing a River Town
ISBN: 1472534654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472534651
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Описание: 'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. Bohannon argues here that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another. He shows how such connections become overt during natural disasters, which disrupt the narratives people use to make sense of the world,including especially religious narratives, and make them more visible. This book offers both a theoretical exploration of the intersection of the city, nature, and religion, as well as a sociological analysis of the 1997 flood in Grand Forks, ND, USA. This case study shows how religious factors have influenced how the relationship between nature and the city is perceived, and in particular have helped to justify the urban control of nature. The narratives found in Grand Forks also reveal a broader understanding of the nature of Western cities, highlighting the potent and ethically-rich intersections between religion, cities and nature.

Автор: Liliana G?mez, Walter Van Herck
Название: The Sacred in the City
ISBN: 1472526058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472526052
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and the human search for meaning in life. As the process of urbanization of society is accelerating thus giving an increasing importance to cities and the 'metropolis', it is relevant to investigate the social or cultural cohesion that these urban agglomerations manifest. Religion is keenly observed as witnessing a growth, crucially impacting cultural and political dynamics, as well as determining the emergence of new sacred symbols and their inscription in urban spaces worldwide. The sacred has become an important category of a new interpretation of social and cultural transformation processes. From a unique broader perspective, the volume focuses on the relationship between the city and the sacred. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of philosophers, historians, architects, social geographers, sociologists and anthropologists, it draws a nuanced picture of the different layers of religion, of the sacred and its diverse forms within the city, with examples from Europe, South America and the Caribbean, and Africa.

Автор: Balducci Alessandro
Название: Urban Planning as a Trade Zone
ISBN: 9400758537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400758537
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book offers a fresh look at the complexities of creating a local trading zone between stakeholders representing different cultures of meaning and value. Discusses theory, trading zones in multi-actor planning processes and trading zone tools in planning.

Автор: Repton
Название: The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq.
ISBN: 1108066178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108066174
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Humphry Repton (1752-1818) ranked among the most prominent landscape gardeners of his age. Prepared by a former professional rival, John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), this is a posthumous collected edition of Repton`s works, published in 1840, illuminating the principal styles and contemporary debates of landscape design.