Laws Of The Landscape

Author : Pietro S. Nivola
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815791591
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws of the Landscape written by Pietro S. Nivola and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, concerns have been raised about the consequences of relentless suburban expansion in the United States. But so far, government programs to control urban sprawl have had little effect in slowing it down, much less stopping it. In this book, Pietro S. Nivola raises important questions about the continued suburbanization of America: Is suburban growth just the result of market forces, or have government policies helped induce greater sprawl? How much of the government intervention has been undesirable, and what has been beneficial? And, if suburban growth is to be controlled, what changes in public policies would be not only effective, but practical? Nivola addresses these questions by comparing sprawling U.S. metropolitan areas to compact development patterns in Europe. He contrasts the effects of traditional urban programs, as well as "accidental urban policies" that have a profound if commonly unrecognized impact on cities, including national tax systems, energy conservation efforts, agricultural supports, and protection from international commerce. Nivola also takes a hard look at the traditional solutions of U.S. urban policy agenda involving core-area reconstruction projects, mass transit investments, "smart" growth controls, and metropolitan organizational rearrangements, and details the reasons why they often don't work. He concludes by recommending reforms for key U.S. policies--from taxes to transportation to federal regulations--based on the successes and failures of the European experience. Brookings Metropolitan Series

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534602
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was a man of unusually diverse talents and interests, and the arc of his life and writings traces the most significant developments of nineteenth century American history. As this volume reveals, the wide-ranging endeavors Olmsted was involved in—cofounding The Nation magazine, advocating against slavery, serving as executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission (precursor to the Red Cross) during the Civil War, championing the preservation of America’s great wild places at Yosemite and Yellowstone—emerged from his steadfast commitment to what he called “communitiveness,” the impulse to serve the needs of one’s fellow citizens. This philosophy had its ultimate expression is his brilliant designs for some of the country’s most beloved public spaces: New York’s Central Park, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Boston’s “Emerald Necklace,” the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, garden suburbs like Chicago’s Riverside, parkways (a term he invented) and college campuses, the “White City” of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and many others. Gathering almost 100 original letters, newspaper dispatches, travel sketches, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, reflections on aesthetics, and autobiographical reminiscences, this deluxe Library of America volume is profusely illustrated with a 32-page color portfolio of Olmsted’s design sketches, architectural plans, and contemporary photographs. It also includes detailed explanatory notes and a chronology of Olmsted’s life and design projects. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Patrick Whitefield
Publisher : Permanent Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781856230438
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Landscape written by Patrick Whitefield and published by Permanent Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Being able to 'read' the landscape whilst on a walk makes a huge difference. It is like suddenly seeing the world in colour after being used to a lifetime of black and white. The Living Landscape looks in detail at landscape formation: from rocks, through soil to vegetation and the intricate web of interactions between plants, animals, climate and the people that makes the landscape around us. Each chapter is interspersed with diagrams, sketches and notes that Patrick has taken over two decades of living and working in the countryside. Patrick will inspire you to reconnect with the land as a living entity, not a collection of different scenery, and develop an active relationship with nature and the countryside. This book invites you to actively engage with nature and experience it first hand. Understanding how landscapes evolve is a useful skill for landscape designers, farmers, gardeners and smallholders but it is also a life-enhancing skill all of us can enjoy. Patrick offers us the enduring pleasure that costs nothing and yet offers everything." -- Publisher's description

Author : Emmanuel Roucounas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385363
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Landscape of Contemporary Theories of International Law written by Emmanuel Roucounas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the main characteristics of contemporary theory in international law. It examines in an analytical fashion 32 schools, movements, and trends as well as the works of more than 500 authors on substantive issues of international law.

Author : Buck Abbey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471292760
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Landscape Ordinances written by Buck Abbey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-09-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-by-state listings and explanations of municipal landscape ordinances In U.S. Landscape Ordinances, Buck Abbey furnishes landscape architects, planners, land-use attorneys, and students with a much-needed resource. This state-by-state presentation demystifies the complex planning laws and ordinances that determine landscape design parameters for more than 300 American cities. The author highlights sections of each ordinance that pertain to landscape architecture, boils the legalese down to plain English, explains the law's main purpose and regulatory function, and spells out the practical implications from a design perspective. With the help of more than fifty diagrams and drawings that clarify complex spatial concepts, U.S. Landscape Ordinances reviews the entire spectrum of green laws currently on the books, including ordinances that cover: * Parking lots and vehicular use areas * Landscape buffers and screens * Street tree plantings * Open space design * Irrigation * Land clearing and building sites The product of ten years of painstaking research and analysis, U.S. Landscape Ordinances is a unique and invaluable tool for professionals in landscape design and municipal planning. It also offers a deep reservoir of information for students, municipal legislators, community activists, and anyone interested in understanding or developing a community's landscape ordinances.

Author : Christopher Jessel
Publisher : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780854900879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Legal History of the English Landscape written by Christopher Jessel and published by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Legal History of the English Landscape is an engaging account of how the law has played a pivotal role in shaping the English landscape through the ages. Adopting a broadly chronological approach, the book begins with prehistory and continues through Roman and Anglo-Saxon times. It examines the foundations of English land law as laid down by the Normans and developed throughout the Middle Ages. The author explores how landed property became seen as the focus of society by the seventeenth century and how ownership rights were protected to such an extent that they inhibited change. As society evolved, once-important laws became obsolete and the author shows how later generations were able to adapt or circumvent them for their own needs. The book describes how Parliament intervened to rearrange the landscape in the Enclosure Movement, authorised the building of roads, canals and railways and encouraged the development of industry and towns. The account concludes with a view of the modern law in an era of public access to land, environmental protection and European legislation. By setting land law in the wider context of changes in society, A Legal History of the English Landscape will appeal not just to lawyers and historians, but to the general reader with an interest in the English landscape"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Benjamin Tyson Duranske
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781604420098
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Law written by Benjamin Tyson Duranske and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are one of the many who have read about and heard about virtual worlds but do not really understand what a virtual world is, or even how to use appropriate terminology when discussing them, then this is the book for you."--Jacket.

Author : William Taylor
Publisher : Hart Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781847312099
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Law written by William Taylor and published by Hart Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. They examine the manner in which imaginative frameworks forming an environment for human action are objectified through practices aimed at governing relations between people or conversely, the way in which legal codes and statutes rely upon there being a relationship between individuals and their surroundings. The Geography of Law brings together research from a range of disciplines to question how urban spaces, works of architecture and landscape, and representations of socio-legal ideas in texts, city plans and paintings, engage with the construction of identity, character and values, both historically and the present day. Essayists question the usefulness of space and regulation as categories of critical analysis, scrutinize familiar uses of these categories and invent new ones. This motivation behind the collection is based on an assumption that space and law carry moral worth and elicit moral considerations however variable their value might be. Contributors: . Michael Austin (Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Unitec, Auckland). Richard Blythe (Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Tasmania, He is also a founding partner of the Sydney/Hobart based architectural practice Terroir). Michael Levine (Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Perth). Peter Kuch (Professor in the School of English, University of New South Wales, Sydney). John Macarthur (Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane). Kristine Miller (Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). Richard Mohr (Co-director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and Head of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia). George Pavlich (Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton). William Taylor (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth

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Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831705282
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Conservation Law written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2000 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: Contains the proceedings of the Colloquium on Landscape Conservation Law that took place in Paris in 1998. Its central theme was the draft European Landscape Convention prepared by the Council of Europe, the first of its kind. Since 1998, the draft has evolved, and has reached its almost final form. In addition to considering the draft Convention, the Colloquium also explored the elements of landscape conservation law in various parts of the world.

Author : Charles E. Beveridge
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick Law Olmsted written by Charles E. Beveridge and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the influential landscape architect, and looks at his designs for public parks.