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Planning Australia’s Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health. A burgeoning body of empirical research demonstrates the ways urban structure and governance influences human health—and Australia is playing a pivotal role in developing understandings of the relationships between health and the built environment. This book takes a retrospective look at many of the challenges faced in pushing the healthy built env...

Oriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that explores astonishing artistic and architectural worlds, captured by a poetic eye. Like an enchanter, Guillaume de Laubier brings the ochre of the desert alive and highlights the splendour and wonders of palaces and residences rich in ancestral knowledge and history. We discover the beautiful diversity of the Orient-Occident alliance, which has given birth to an innovative and colourful style of decoration. We stop in front of the skyscrapers, mu...

One of four new titles in a series for local historians and all lovers of Britain's heritage, the main aim of which is to enable readers to look at the landscape and read its features with understanding. This book shows how, to the informed eye, roads and tracks can reveal the whole history of locality or of an industry; or give clues to the social, technological and economic life of a whole age. It traces the development of British roads and tracks and looks at questions such as why they are wh...

A little explored area of childhood is that of the troubles and difficulties children experience simply by being children. Using adults' stories about being a child, such as not being believed, being left unprotected against monsters, and discovering that Santa Claus is not real, this book presents children as they live in the social worlds of adults and in social worlds of their own making. The book brings to life the "little trials of childhood" - anxieties and problems facing children which s...

Planning theory is currently in a confused state as a consequence of a number of changes over the last ten years in planning practice and social and economic theory. Even prior to these events, planning theory was an uncertain discipline, reflecting planning's precarious position between and resting upon a range of professional subject areas and philosophical roots. Planning Futures is an attempt to pin down the constantly evolving landscape of planning theory and to chart a path through this fa...

Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions. Fischer, Altrock and a team of 13 distinguished authors examine how and why the ideologies and the processes of city making changed in modern and post-modern times. Illustrated with over 45 images, the themes addressed in the book range from the changing outlook on Berlin's...

**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 become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also seen unprecedented rapid global social and ecological change, which has weakened many protection effor...

This work reveals, through colour illustrations and architects' drawings, the variety of contemporary outdoor rooms being designed by leading architects. Susan Zevon seeks to discover how architects are transforming outdoor spaces - through the design of courtyards, pool areas, terraces, porches and roof gardens - in response to the growing desire to spend leisure time outdoors. Projects include holiday homes in Italy and Switzerland by Cini Boeri; courtyard houses in Madrid and Algiers by Alber...

Many people consider themselves to be good gardeners, but it takes something extra to put to use a variety of basic design principles to create a garden that is extraordinarily beautiful. This book explains every piece of the gardening puzzle in a friendly, straightforward way. It demystifies the art of designing with plants, offering practical, how-to advice on: Basic Design Techniques; Successfully Using Colour; Extending Seasons; Designing a Year-Round Garden; Using Plants for Special Effects...

Plants, more than any other design element, can determine the visual characteristics of a designed site. This book helps readers balance technical site requirements with the aesthetics of a site, providing comprehensive coverage of planting design for large-and small-scale projects as well as for residential and commercial sites.

Poissy Galore is a visionary project that brings together architecture, education and leisure within a phenomenal arena of natural beauty along the Seine in Carrieres- sous-Poissy. Not far from Le Corbusier's famed Villa Savoye lies Poissy Galore: a visionary project that brings together architecture, education and leisure within a phenomenal arena of natural beauty along the Seine in Carrieres-sous-Poissy. Designed collaboratively by French architects AWP and Swiss HHF with landscape design by...

This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of garden acted widely as an inspiration, it was not slavishly copied but adapted to local conditions, circumstances and agendas. A garden 'in the English style' is commonly used to denote a landscape garden in Europe, while the term 'landscape garden' is used for layouts that are naturalistic in plan and resemble natural scenery, though they might be...

Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on representing landscapes, Nadia Amoroso brings together contributions from some of the leading landscape departments in the world to explore the variety in digital illustration methods. In each chapter, leading lecturers, professors and practitioners in the field of landscape architecture explain a specific d...

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come, climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate change already been felt as strongly as in low-lying coastal cities, cities located in large river deltas and near tidal estuaries. This book reflects on the contribution that spatial planning and urban design can make to a complex discussion about how city f...

Shifting economies have left the world's post-industrial cities with isolated zones of abandonment - iconic yet dormant sites that are both physically and culturally vacant. These sites are typically dislocated, contaminated, and often construed as a danger to be made safe or an economic burden to be made profitable. They exist within the urban fabric, though through disuse or disconnection, they exist distinct from that fabric. They are Urban Islands. The research articles and design projects i...

In the 19th century, the great Victorian public park movement carved out green spaces for Britain's rapidly growing urban populations. Parks fulfilled an urgent public health need and were thought to moderate social behavior, providing an elevating alternative to raucous drinking houses and dog fights. This illustrated history celebrates one of London's unsung but much-loved public spaces, Bishops Park, which adjoins Fulham Palace in west London. The first granting of land for the purpose of thi...