Landscape

Authenticity in Nature

Making Choices about the Naturalness of Ecosystems

By Nigel Dudley

This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large...

Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Emergence in Landscape Architecture

By Rod Barnett

All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called emergence. Related to chaos theory and self-organising systems, emergence highlights the ever changing and developing urban...

Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds

Geography and the Humanities

Edited by Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Doug Richardson

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping...

Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture

Edited by Simon Bell, Ingrid Herlin, Richard Stiles

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health

Open Space: People Space 2

Edited by Catharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Simon Bell

Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to...

Published April 18th 2010 by Routledge

Landscape in Children's Literature

By Jane Carroll

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

2nd Edition

By Simon Bell

Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes – climatic, geological, ecological and cultural – over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge – ranging in...

Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge

Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens

Edited by Marc Treib

While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time,...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

Overlooking the Visual

Demystifying the Art of Design

By Kathryn Moore

Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that...

Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge

Place Attachment

Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications

Edited by Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright

Place attachments are emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. These connections are a powerful aspect of human life that inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community and influence action. Place attachments affect issues as diverse...

To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge

Representing Landscape Architecture

Edited by Marc Treib

Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization. It has been said that we can only realize what we can imagine. But in order to realize we must convey ideas to...

Published December 12th 2007 by Taylor & Francis

Spatial Recall

Memory in Architecture and Landscape

Edited by Marc Treib

Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history. Spatial Recall casts a broad net over the concept of memory and gives a variety of perspectives from twelve internationally noted scholars, practicing designers, and...

Published May 10th 2009 by Routledge

Architectural Theories of the Environment

Posthuman Territory

Edited by Ariane Lourie Harrison

As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as the largest environmental force on the planet and suggests that conventional anthropocentric...

Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Future Practice

Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

By Rory Hyde

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of...

Published October 8th 2012 by Routledge

Thinking through Landscape

By Augustin Berque

Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment,...

Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

How Architects Write

By Tom Spector, Rebecca Damron

This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design. Authors Tom Spector and Rebecca Damron present typical writing...

Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge

Diagramming the Big Idea

Methods for Architectural Composition

By Jeffrey Balmer, Michael Swisher

As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects...

Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge

GeoHumanities

Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

Edited by Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson

In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting...

Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge

Making the Metropolitan Landscape

Standing Firm on Middle Ground

Edited by Jacqueline Tatom, Jennifer Stauber

The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the fields of architecture, design and planning to...

Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge

Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures

Edited by Andrew Ballantyne

Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate....

Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge

Landscape

By John Wylie, John Wylie

Series: Key Ideas in Geography

Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are...

Published July 15th 2007 by Routledge

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

2nd Edition

By Brian Edwards

This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings...

Published September 4th 2008 by Taylor & Francis

Experiential Landscape

An Approach to People, Place and Space

By Kevin Thwaites, Ian M. Simkins

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book takes a holistic view of the relationship between humans and their environment, integrating experiential and spatial dimensions of the outdoors...

Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge

Rethinking Landscape

A Critical Reader

By Ian H. Thompson

Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers – and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries. This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides you through the aesthetic, social,...

Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge

The Cultured Landscape

Designing the Environment in the 21st Century

Edited by Sheila Harvey, Ken Fieldhouse

This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of...

Published September 13th 2005 by Taylor & Francis

European Landscape Architecture

Best Practice in Detailing

Edited by Ian Thompson, Torben Dam, Jens Balsby Nielsen

Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details. Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a...

Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge