The Living Landscape Second Edition

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610910910
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Landscape, Second Edition written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals. The Living Landscape offers • a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation • more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities • scores of checklists and step-by-step guides • hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues • coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards • more than 150 illustrations. As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780070793989
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Landscape written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of hydrologic inventory elements -- Major sources of information -- Soils -- Summary of soils inventory elements -- Major sources of information -- Microclimate -- Summary of microclimate inventory elements -- Major sources of information -- Vegetation -- Summary of vegetation inventory elements -- Major sources of information -- Wildlife -- Summary of wildlife inventory elements -- Major sources of information -- Existing Land Use and Land Users -- Summary of existing land-use and land-user elements -- Major sources of information -- Analysis and Synthesis of Inventory Information -- Bivariate Relationships -- Layer-Cake Relationships -- The Holdridge Life-Zone System -- Two Examples of Biophysical Inventory and Analysis -- The New Jersey Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan -- The Biodiversity Plan for the Camp Pendleton Region, California -- Human Community Inventory and Analysis -- Sources of Existing Information -- Land-Use Maps and Settlement Pattern Diagrams -- Histories -- Census Data -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Phone Books -- Community Organizations and Clubs -- Colleges and Universities -- Government and Public Agencies -- Synopsis of Information Sources -- Use of Existing Data to Generate New Information -- Population Trends, Characteristics, and Projections -- Development Projections -- Economic Analyses -- User Groups -- Generation of New Information -- Mail and Telephone Surveys -- Face-to-Face Interviews -- Participant Observation -- Analysis and Synthesis of Social Information.

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 : Rick Darke
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1604697393
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Landscape written by Rick Darke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence.” —The New York Times Books Review Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

Author : Pat Sagui
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607653974
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition written by Pat Sagui and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information for incorporating natural stone in a landscape and step-by-step instructions for a number of popular stone projects. Contains more than 335 color photos and 40 illustrations.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203601
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape and Englishness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, and as nostalgia for a unified, organic English culture in Lawrence, Morton and Priestley’s travel writing, but also in the Shell Tourist Guides to motoring in rural England; English moorland; the sacred geographies of monuments in Hardy and others; the traditional seaside deconstructed in Martin Parr’s photography, and the sea as English Victorian imperial territory and its symbolic breezes in Froude’s travel writing. The English landscape is also a paradigm for the description of other places in D. H. Lawrence’s travel writing or for the colonial territory itself in Rushdie’s writing India, a displacement of other landscapes. This collection of papers examines the assumption that constructions of rural England provide the basis for an understanding of Englishness.

Author : Travis Beck
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267023
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Ecological Landscape Design written by Travis Beck and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape.

Author : Robert Norris Coulson
Publisher : KEL Partners Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0983161704
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Landscape Ecology written by Robert Norris Coulson and published by KEL Partners Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Landscape Ecology is intended to be a starting point for the study of landscape ecology. The goal is to provide a contemporary synthesis of basic landscape ecological concepts with an applied interpretation. The text is divided into two sections. The first section, which consists of six chapters, is intended to provide a uniform background for students from various academic disciplines. The second section, which consists of four chapters, is intended to provide an examination of the substance of contemporary landscape ecology.

Author : Hazel White
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781935935469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Land written by Hazel White and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gardens in Living Land are growing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, in the valleys of the California coastal hills, in tight urban lots, and on spacious residential estates. Each one demonstrates Eric and Silvina Blasens' ability to intensely intuit and beautifully forge a relevant, contemporary dynamic between architecture and land.

Author : Douglas W. Tallamy
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604691468
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Nature Home written by Douglas W. Tallamy and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With the twinned calamities of climate change and mass extinction weighing heavier and heavier on my nature-besotted soul, here were concrete, affordable actions that I could take, that anyone could take, to help our wild neighbors thrive in the built human environment. And it all starts with nothing more than a seed. Bringing Nature Home is a miracle: a book that summons butterflies." —Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.