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A Little Piece of Earth is all about starting small, with more than fifty self-contained, doable projects. Whether you have a yard, a terrace, a rooftop, or just a windowsill, there are plenty of ideas and inspirations to choose from.
A little piece of earth: how to grow your own food in small spaces
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A Little Piece of Earth is all about starting small, with more than fifty self-contained, doable projects. Whether you have a yard, a terrace, a rooftop, or just a windowsill, there are plenty of ideas and inspirations to choose from.
Urban Landscapes
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The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requirements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces.(...)
Urban green: European landscape design for the 21st century
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The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requirements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces. It documents twenty recently realized examples in Europe, most of which feature greenery, designed by international landscape architects such as Gustafson Porter, Field Operations, Michel Desvigne, Gross.Max, Latz + Partner, and West 8. The projects, built between 2004 and 2010, range from private urban gardens by way of squares, streets, and promenades to large-scale projects such as the revitalization of riverside areas or master plans for the green spaces of entire cities. Urban greenery is an important contribution to ecological urban development. The projects documented offer examples of how this can succeed using the most modern materials and technologies.
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Design for water
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Design for Water is geared to providing those making development decisions and guidelines with the information they need to set up passive harvesting techniques.
Design for water
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Design for Water is geared to providing those making development decisions and guidelines with the information they need to set up passive harvesting techniques.
Urban Landscapes
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Many urban yards are essentially unproductive patches of grass, requiring constant attention for no return. Through sustainable, organic landscaping, these small or large plots of land can become part of the solution to today's environmental challenges. Eco-yards supports the vision of a healthy, abundant planet in which beautiful, richly varied urban yards contribute(...)
Eco-yards ; simple steps to earth-friendly landscapes
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Many urban yards are essentially unproductive patches of grass, requiring constant attention for no return. Through sustainable, organic landscaping, these small or large plots of land can become part of the solution to today's environmental challenges. Eco-yards supports the vision of a healthy, abundant planet in which beautiful, richly varied urban yards contribute to restoring the natural ecosystem. This inspiring and practical, well-illustrated manual includes clear, easy-to-follow instructions for: designing and maintaining an eco-yard making your yard water-wise understanding basic soil science replacing your lawn with tree, shrub and flower beds or hardy, low-maintenance grass growing vegetables in the eco-yard
Urban Landscapes
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Above the Pavement—the Farm! reveals the groundbreaking efforts of architecture firm WORKac and their team of more than 150 collaborators—farmers, politicians, horticulturists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, architecture students, and artists—to create a working urban farm, hoisted 30 feet high, using industrial cardboard tubes filled with more than 50 varieties(...)
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Above the pavement- The farm!: Architecture & agriculture at P.F.1
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Above the Pavement—the Farm! reveals the groundbreaking efforts of architecture firm WORKac and their team of more than 150 collaborators—farmers, politicians, horticulturists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, architecture students, and artists—to create a working urban farm, hoisted 30 feet high, using industrial cardboard tubes filled with more than 50 varieties of locally grown fruits and vegetables. This book presents a range of ideas and issues situated at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and food.
Urban Landscapes
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have(...)
Rambunctious garden: saving nature in a post-wild world
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. In this publication, Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.
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Nature urbaine en projets
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Nature urbaine en projets a pour ambition de faire connaître le devenir de la nature quand elle se situe en milieu urbain et, inversement, ce qu'il advient de la ville dès lors qu'elle se préoccupe de la nature. Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz interroge la portée de l'écologie dans le champ théorico-pratique du paysagisme et des politiques publiques de paysage.
Nature urbaine en projets
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Nature urbaine en projets a pour ambition de faire connaître le devenir de la nature quand elle se situe en milieu urbain et, inversement, ce qu'il advient de la ville dès lors qu'elle se préoccupe de la nature. Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz interroge la portée de l'écologie dans le champ théorico-pratique du paysagisme et des politiques publiques de paysage.
Urban Landscapes
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Ce numéro des Carnets du paysage se propose d’explorer les liens entre le phénomène d’"invention” ou de “création” humaine des plantes et la “fabrication” tant matérielle que symbolique des paysages. Comment ces deux échelles interagissent-elles ? Quelles sont les pratiques, mais aussi les représentations, par lesquelles ces liens se tissent ?
Les carnets du paysage no 26 : inventer des plantes
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Ce numéro des Carnets du paysage se propose d’explorer les liens entre le phénomène d’"invention” ou de “création” humaine des plantes et la “fabrication” tant matérielle que symbolique des paysages. Comment ces deux échelles interagissent-elles ? Quelles sont les pratiques, mais aussi les représentations, par lesquelles ces liens se tissent ?
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