Author: Almo Farina
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: landscape, science, series, towards, ecology, methods, principles
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2007-05-03
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402033281
ISBN-13: 9781402033285

Principles and methods of landscape ecology are intensively used to model and to manage disturbed landscapes and menaced pristine areas as well. Students and professionals can find a new version of "Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology" firstly published in 1998 by Chapman & Hall (London). Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and "Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology" reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular new paradigms and theories like percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source-sink models

Author: James Corner
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: landscape, theory, contemporary, essays, recovering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568981791
ISBN-13: 9781568981796

The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes such as reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, geometry, representation, and temporality are explored in discussions drawn from recent developments not only in the United States but also in the Netherlands, Fr

Author: Bernard Lassu
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: landscape, architecture, studies, penn, approach
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0812234502
ISBN-13: 9780812234503

A familiarity with the work of Bernard Lassus, the leading French landscape architect, is essential for anyone seriously interested in contemporary landscape experience and design. Now, with this first collection of his writings to be translated into English, the contributions of Lassus can finally be fully appreciated by a wider audience.Perhaps best known for the speculative base that sustains his work and thought, Lassus is an artist whose philosophical concerns precede and determine his design work. For him, attention to the interactive nature of the landscape underlies all projects. He ap

Author: Michael Aston
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: landscape, history, local, archaeology, interpreting
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1997-07-23
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415151406
ISBN-13: 9780415151405

After millenia of human habitation, a majority of places in Britain have had a local history written about them. However, up until the twentieth century these histories have almost exclusively addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain’s landscape is the result of the influence both of social and natural geological processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents. Michael Aston uses a wide range of so

Author: Alain Briot
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Keywords: landscape, essays, luminous, photography, mastering
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-12-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1933952067
ISBN-13: 9781933952062

Thirteen essays on landscape photography by master photographer Alain Briot. Topics include practical, technical, and aesthetic aspects of photography to help photographers build and refine their skills. Also covered is how to be an artist in business. Alain Briot is one of the leading contemporary landscape photographers. He received his education in France and currently works mostly in the southwestern part of the United States. This book starts with the technical aspects of photography; how to see, compose, find the right light, and select the best lens for a specific shot. It continues

Author: Udo Weilacher
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: landscape, partners, latz, architecture, syntax, peter
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3764376155
ISBN-13: 9783764376154

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latz s landscape architecture, ecological and social concerns are translated into an individual aesthetic language that aims to achieve a timeless quality. The different layers and meanings of the sites rich in history are revealed and woven into netw

Author: Frederick Steiner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: landscape, planning, approach, ecological, living
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2000-02-03
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0070793980
ISBN-13: 9780070793989

Award-winning guide to ecologically-sound landscapes! The first edition of Frederick Steiner’s The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning, won a coveted ASLA merit award. This revised Second Edition’s strong design-oriented approach meets the needs of today’s professionals, focusing on how to create a plan and explains each major step with examples from various localities. The new edition links each step to current planning practice and to new theory in landscape ecology and sustainable development.You’ll find: More than 20 case studies cover