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Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape
An internationally renowned public garden designer, with 27 years experience and an artist s eye, Lynden Miller has changed the face of New York City s public places by providing a connection with nature for neighborhoods, rich and poor. Parks, Plants and People describes the elements of successful public space and tells how to design, improve and maintain year-round plantings, how to advocate for increased public funding and how to attract private dollars.She calls on the general public, gardeners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects and public officials everyone who cares about the quality of life in urban areas to create and support well-planted parks and gardens as essential urban oases that reduce crime and have positive effects on the economic welfare of cities and their citizens.
Public Garden Management
The complete-and-ready reference for establishing, managing, and running a successful and sustainable, profitable public garden As unique museums with living collections of plants, public gardens offer visitors aesthetically beautiful landscapes combined with educational programming and scientific research that promote the value and understanding of plants. In the twenty-first century, public gardens are in the forefront of organizations and institutions committed to promoting the conservation of plants and their habitats, developing sustainable practices that support the environment, and providing green spaces where our increasingly stressed and urbanized citizens can reconnect with the natural world.
The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture: A Complete Guide to Starting and Running Your Own Firm
The all-inclusive reference to starting and operating a landscape architecture firm 'The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture, Second Edition' is completely revised to keep up with the latest developments driving the day-to-day operation of a successful private-practice landscape architecture office. Whether helping a landscape architecture student identify a career track, providing direction on starting a new office, guiding an owner seeking to jumpstart a stagnant or fledgling business, or assisting a landscape architect-in-training study for the national Landscape Architecture Registration Exam (LARE), this single-source blueprint is the key to prospering in this dynamic field.
Sustainable Landscape Management: Design, Construction, and Maintenance
The complete guide to the sustainable management of landscapes A must-have guide for anyone working with landscapes, 'Sustainable Landscape Management' eases the transition of the landscape industry into a new era of green consciousness. Filled with examples that illustrate best practices, the book provides a practical framework for the development of sustainable management strategies from design to execution and, eventually, to maintenance in an effort to construct landscapes that function more efficiently and minimize the impact on the environment.
Central Park, an American Masterpiece
Every New York City tour bus stops at Strawberry Fields; countless movies have been filmed at Bethesda Terrace; and concerts from the Great Lawn are broadcast throughout the nation. These places are all part of Central Park, America's first public park and a paragon of 19th-century landscape design. Marking the park's 150th anniversary, this first definitive history celebrates the splendor and significance of this national treasure. Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes
Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul Goldberger notes, to 'make you see everything, city and nature alike, with a striking intensity.' Richly illustrated and handsomely designed, this is the first publication to explore a wide range of MVVA's projects, focusing on the firm's trend toward sites requiring complex technological solutions.
Mosaics
Rotterdam's West 8 is not only one of the largest, but also one of the best-known and most active design firms working in Europe today in the field of 'urban design and landscape architecture.' The phrase suggests the firm's strongly interdisciplinary orientation between landscape architecture and town planning. Its projects are provocative, avant-garde in the typically Dutch manner, and not afraid of contact with popular culture. They were created in close collaboration with such architects as Richard Rogers, Steven Holl, Dominique Perrault, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and many others. The founder and director of the firm and its most highly visible figure is Adriaan Geuze, who is the author of this book.
Landscape Design for Architectural Style: Volume One: European Influenced
This well-organized guide, the first of two volumes, displays and discusses the European influenced architectural styles, including: Classical, Gothic, Early American, Georgian, Victorian, Italian, French, and Second Empire. Over 350 beautiful, color photos and 87 line drawings illustrate possibilities and display the implemented designs. For each architectural style, descriptions of colors, materials, and unique features are provided. Site elements include the paving, walls, fences, trellises, shade covers, water features, fire features, seating, and garden art. This book is a must wherever landscape design is performed, discussed, and imagined.
Landscape Design for Architectural Style, Volume Two: United States Original Styles
This thorough guide, the second of two volumes, displays and discusses American original architecture, including Pueblo, Spanish Revival, Ranch, Cabin, Craftsman, Prairie, Cape Cod, and the Mediterranean influence. Over 320 beautiful, color photos and 96 line drawings illustrate possibilities and display the implemented landscapes. For each architectural style, descriptions of colors, materials, and unique features are given. Site elements include the paving, walls, fences, trellises, shade covers, water features, fire features, seating, and garden art. This book is a must wherever landscape design is discussed, imagined, and implemented.
Trees: The Balance of Life, the Beauty of Nature
The old saying has it wrong: all too often we see the forest, but don't begin to appreciate the unique qualities of the trees. With 90 stunning photos from around the world, 'Trees' celebrates these awe-inspiring gifts of nature. This extraordinary book sets the record straight, looking at trees from many points of view-their 300 million-year natural history; their usefulness; their incredible beauty; their role in mythology and religion; and their importance to life on earth. No one who reads 'Trees' will ever take them for granted again.
Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History
The fascinating stories of the plants that changed civilizations.' 'Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History' is a beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Entries feature a description of the plant, its botanical name, its native range and its primary functions -- edible, medicinal, commercial or practical. Concise text is highlighted by elegant botanical drawings, paintings and photographs as well as insightful quotes. Many of the plants are well known, such as rice, tea, cotton, rubber, wheat, sugarcane, tobacco, wine grapes and corn. However, there are also many whose stories are less known.
Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communites
Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them. Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks.
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