Urban agricultural heritage
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms of food production in cities to help preserve this(...)
Urban Landscapes
June 2022
Urban agricultural heritage
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms of food production in cities to help preserve this valuable knowledge. On the basis of current research findings, they develop new perspectives and guidelines for recognizing traditional food production systems as an aspect of cultural heritage and for dealing with urban agriculture worldwide.
Urban Landscapes
$28.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Du modeste érable qui ombrage le parking d’une école au vénérable tilleul qui veille sur l‘entrée d’une bâtisse remarquable, les arbres des villes sont constamment confrontés à de multiples pressions qui réduisent leur espérance de vie. Mobilisée par ce constat inquiétant, une communauté de spécialistes intervient pour les préserver, les soigner puis les renouveler: les(...)
Au chevet des arbres : réconcilier la ville et le végétal
Actions:
Price:
$28.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Du modeste érable qui ombrage le parking d’une école au vénérable tilleul qui veille sur l‘entrée d’une bâtisse remarquable, les arbres des villes sont constamment confrontés à de multiples pressions qui réduisent leur espérance de vie. Mobilisée par ce constat inquiétant, une communauté de spécialistes intervient pour les préserver, les soigner puis les renouveler: les arbres sont leurs patients. Parmi eux, les experts arboricoles – dont l’auteur fait partie – se rendent régulièrement à leur chevet pour évaluer leur état de santé et déceler leurs éventuelles défaillances. Ce livre met en lumière l’activité de ces praticiens, peu nombreux en France, et propose au lecteur d’aller différemment à la rencontre de ces végétaux urbains.
Urban Landscapes
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The Fabricated Landscape (June 26, 2021–January 17, 2022, Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art) presents projects from ten contemporary international architectural practices that are exceptionally responsive to the communities, localities, and cultures in which they are situated. This exhibition catalogue, organized by scale, and presented in three parts,(...)
The fabricated landscape: Domestic, civic, territorial
Actions:
Price:
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The Fabricated Landscape (June 26, 2021–January 17, 2022, Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art) presents projects from ten contemporary international architectural practices that are exceptionally responsive to the communities, localities, and cultures in which they are situated. This exhibition catalogue, organized by scale, and presented in three parts, features extensive documentation of projects by Anna Heringer, Anne Holtrop, Assemble, Frida Escobedo, Go Hasegawa, LCLA office, MAIO, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, SO-IL, and UMWELT alongside texts from curator Raymund Ryan, Emilio Ambasz, Emanuele Coccia, Jing Liu, and more.
Urban Landscapes
$60.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et(...)
Les ghat de Bénarès : Variations architecturales d'une rive sacrée
Actions:
Price:
$60.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et religieux où l’accès à l’eau est primordial. En s’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain approfondie, sur de nombreux relevés architecturaux et sur une série de panoramas datant du 18e et du 19e siècles, Savitri Jalais interroge les éléments qui ont concouru à la naissance et au développement de ce front d’eau sur le temps long. À travers l’analyse des formes et techniques de construction employées dans le but de résister aux contraintes exercées par l’eau, l’auteure retrace le dialogue pluriséculaire qui s’est établi entre la géographie des lieux et le paysage urbain et révèle le potentiel urbanistique de ces berges en gradins et leur pertinence quant aux pratiques quotidiennes des habitants et des pèlerins.
Urban Landscapes
$16.99
(available to order)
Summary:
Weeds are botanical thugs, but they have always been essential to our lives. They were the first crops and medicines and they inspired Velcro. They adorn weddings and foliate the most derelict urban sites. With the verve and historical breadth of Michael Pollan, acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey delivers a provocative defense of the plants we love to hate.
Weeds: in defense of nature's most unloved plants
Actions:
Price:
$16.99
(available to order)
Summary:
Weeds are botanical thugs, but they have always been essential to our lives. They were the first crops and medicines and they inspired Velcro. They adorn weddings and foliate the most derelict urban sites. With the verve and historical breadth of Michael Pollan, acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey delivers a provocative defense of the plants we love to hate.
Urban Landscapes
$34.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Considérer le paysage comme un texte ou une partition qu'il faut lire, c'est envisager la totalité des régimes de signes qu'il produit. Le promeneur,l'historien,l'archéologue, l'architecte, l'ingénieur, le photographe, l'écrivain : chacun lit le paysage à sa façon, chacun en retient ou en souligne des traits saillants ou discrets, et c'est pourquoi on les rencontrera(...)
Les Cahiers de l'École de Blois 10: Lire le paysage
Actions:
Price:
$34.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Considérer le paysage comme un texte ou une partition qu'il faut lire, c'est envisager la totalité des régimes de signes qu'il produit. Le promeneur,l'historien,l'archéologue, l'architecte, l'ingénieur, le photographe, l'écrivain : chacun lit le paysage à sa façon, chacun en retient ou en souligne des traits saillants ou discrets, et c'est pourquoi on les rencontrera tous dans ce numéro 10 des Cahiers de l'Ecole de Blois, où ils accompagnent idées d'intervention et projets. Non exhaustif, ce feuilletage des approches n'a de sens qu'à revenir sur l'amplitude de tout ce qui relève du paysage, et à sonder l'épaisseur et la complexité qui, en tout site, déterminent les conditions mêmes de la levée du projet.
Urban Landscapes
$79.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The city does not exist without landscape, nor landscape without the city. The original landscape is always reflected in the form of the city. But how is architectonic coherence between the city and the landscape really achieved? This book sketches the development of the urban landscape from the Renaissance to the present. The examples include urban landscapes and parks(...)
Metropolitan landscape architecture: urban parks and landscapes
Actions:
Price:
$79.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The city does not exist without landscape, nor landscape without the city. The original landscape is always reflected in the form of the city. But how is architectonic coherence between the city and the landscape really achieved? This book sketches the development of the urban landscape from the Renaissance to the present. The examples include urban landscapes and parks in Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Boston, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne.
Urban Landscapes
$63.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Typically, as little as three percent of a project's construction budget is allocated to the space that surrounds a building, but that is changing. A greater desire to blend buildings into their contexts, ecological(...)
Digital landscape architecture now
Actions:
Price:
$63.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Typically, as little as three percent of a project's construction budget is allocated to the space that surrounds a building, but that is changing. A greater desire to blend buildings into their contexts, ecological considerations, legislation, and new definitions of "scaping" have opened up exciting possibilities. Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material application, data-driven mapping techniques, and digital technologies and construction methods, landscape designers are producing a new wave of work around the world, reshaping gardens, public squares, leisure areas, and industrial parks. Among the practices included in this survey are designers who have bridged modernism with newer forms (Emergent, West 8); architects whose work fuses with the earth's contours (Zaha Hadid, MVRDV); and a generation of designers only just emerging from universities. Nadia Amoroso is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto and has lectured at Harvard and Cornell universities.
$19.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Nature All Around Us uses the familiar in order to introduce basic ecological concepts. It offers in twenty-five short chapters organized by scale, from the home to the neighborhood to the city at large. Various ecological concepts are approachably examined, from understanding why a squirrel might act aggressively towards its neighbor to how nutrients and energy(...)
Urban Landscapes
October 2012
Nature all around us: a guide to urban ecology
Actions:
Price:
$19.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Nature All Around Us uses the familiar in order to introduce basic ecological concepts. It offers in twenty-five short chapters organized by scale, from the home to the neighborhood to the city at large. Various ecological concepts are approachably examined, from understanding why a squirrel might act aggressively towards its neighbor to how nutrients and energy contained within a discarded apple core are recycled back into the food chain. Streaming through the work is an introduction to basic ecology, including the dangers of invasive species and the crucial role played by plants and trees in maintaining air quality.
Urban Landscapes
(Re)Designing nature
$55.00
(available to order)
Summary:
(Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and presentation of nature in cities. Inspiring its readers to contemplate our current relationship to nature, it animates debates about ecologically sustainable and aesthetically intelligent environmental design. In particular, the twin phenomena of rapidly shrinking cities and rapidly(...)
Urban Landscapes
April 2011
(Re)Designing nature
Actions:
Price:
$55.00
(available to order)
Summary:
(Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and presentation of nature in cities. Inspiring its readers to contemplate our current relationship to nature, it animates debates about ecologically sustainable and aesthetically intelligent environmental design. In particular, the twin phenomena of rapidly shrinking cities and rapidly expanding megacities call for new models for the intercession and housing of urban nature. Artists and landscape architects offer proposals for alternative uses of empty city lots and old industrial areas, designing parasitical gardens in the middle of the city or utopian visions for a greater symbiosis of culture and nature.
Urban Landscapes