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Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic i...

An ambitious new vision for landscape architecture from this eminent French design team is discussed for the first time in English.As North American architects and planners begin to grapple with the wastelands resulting from unchecked urban sprawl, this book shows that imaginative landscape architecture can humanize open spaces surrounding colossal public works. Projects profiled include city squares, airport approaches, housing courtyards, and vast land tracts along highways.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence - the capacity for learning and synergy - in many-layered cities, technologies, economies, ecologies and political systems. The key is in synergistic mapping and design, which can move beyond smart 'winner-takes-all' competition, towards wiser human s...

As the natural landscape becomes more humanized, the habitat for many wildlife species has been lost or degraded. In a clear, step-by-step format, this book tells how to create a wildlife-friendly landscape that takes into account both people and nature. The authors' theme--"put back what you don't need"--allows the gardener to reduce maintenance costs while providing a habitat that offers wildlife the essentials of food, cover, water, and space. *The book addresses such fundamental questions a...

Featuring the work of 21 landscape architects from around the world, The Inspired Landscape by Susan Cohen highlights each initial spark of creativity and traces it through the stunningly innovative landscape designs that resulted. Lushly illustrated with original sketches, plans, and photographs, this invaluable resource will embolden designers to summon the unique sources that can fuel their own creative process. Includes work by: Shlomo Aronson, Sheila Brady, and James Burnett Gilles Clement,...

While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges, and perpetually under pressure. As the notion of unsettled appears to define contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an...

Bauernhäuser prägen die Identität der Allgäuer Kulturlandschaft seit Jahrhunderten. Die Zukunft bäuerlicher Hofstellen ist jedoch durch den Strukturwandel der Landwirtschaft bedroht, mit den Bauten droht die Kulturlandschaft zu verschwinden. Die Publikation Weiter|Nutzen zeigt rund zwanzig besonders interessante Projekte, in denen die Altbausubstanz landwirtschaftlicher Gebäude auf vorbildliche Weise zu neuem Leben erweckt wurde. Damit sollen Eigentümer|innen und potentielle Bauherr|inn|en anger...

Die Landschaftsarchitektur der Gegenwart ist auf der Suche nach einer zeitgemAAen und eigenstAndigen Sprache. Werke von KA1/4nstlern wie Dani Karavan und HannsjArg Voth sowie von Landschaftsarchitekten wie Peter Latz, Adriaan Geuze und Peter Walker werden in dem groAzA1/4gig illustrierten Buch anschaulich dargestellt. "Besonders aufschluAreich sind die ausfA1/4hrlichen Interviews, in denen die Gestalter ihr VerhAltnis zur Landschaft, ihre Ideen und PlAne vorstellen." (NZZ) "Was die mit dem Origi...

This is the first book to address how to design therapeutic gardens. Landscape architect Daniel Winterbottom and occupational therapist Amy Wagenfeld combine years of experience to provide a practical resource for professionals. Perfect for design professionals who want real world practical design advice. There is an increasing demand for garden designers and landscape architects to collaborate on therapeutic spaces. A comprehensive reference which covers a variety of types of therapeutic gard...

Urban design is a process of establishing a structural order within human settlements; responding to dynamic emergent meanings and functions in a constant state of flux. The planning/design process is complex due to the myriad of ongoing (urban) organizational and structural relationships and contexts. This book reconnects the process with outcomes on the ground, and puts thinking about design back at the heart of what planners do. Mixing accessible theory, practical examples and carefully desig...

Architects are finding the procurement landscape increasingly complex and competitive. This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated, negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects, professional services contracts, how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills. It also includes information on how to monitor and manage fees and the resources required to deliver projects, managing change in th...

Celebrated designer Keith Davitt brings the delights of the water garden within reach of everyone in "Water Features for Small Gardens". With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, Davitt offers alternatives for every style of garden and every budget. Detailed case studies depict actual gardens progressing from the planning stage to planting, and the author shows step by step how such features are created using only modest building skills. Types of water gardens discuss...

A botanical garden is essentially a living museum. Yet until now no resource existed to give those working in botanical gardens specific guidance for acquiring and maintaining their natural collections. Timothy C. Hohn does the field an enormous service with Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, which introduces public garden professionals and students to standard and specialized museological concepts and practices useful for the management of botanical collections. Hohn offers instruction...

The editor and her contributors explore the influences of state socialism and communist political ideals on the capital cities of Eastern Europe, their architecture and urban development, during the Cold War period. Following an introduction, which provides the historical and political background for the individual capital city chapters, the book is divided into three parts: The Centre: Moscow; The Satellites: Warsaw, East Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia; and The Periphery: Belgrad...

This book is based on the underlying premise that much can be learned from contemporary thinking about the treatment of complexity, uncertainty, risk-taking and the importance of context in decision making for planning, in fields where these concepts have long been deployed in complex problem-solving. It explores the sophisticated theoretical approaches which have been developed in order to analyse the issues surrounding that complexity. In so doing, the book discusses the overriding influence o...

The urban landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as cities worldwide implement revitalisation plans designed to keep urban areas vital and appealing for both tourism and residency. Bringing a sense of space and place to the public areas of urban cities is essential for the vitality of a city, and many cities are investing heavily in this type of urban development. "Urban Landscape Architecture" showcases the most interesting and innovative urban landscape design and reviews the...