Landscape Architecture
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Sandra Albro

Figure 4-9a. A small vacant parcel sat on a street corner in a mixed-use neighborhood on Buffalo’s West Side. Figure 4-9b. The completed corner park adds pervious off-street parking, a ...
( Category: Sustainability & Green Design March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Wilson

And second, the postwar redevelopment agenda, which supported suburban homeownership, highway development, and “blight” removal in the urban core, lobotomized many of the thriving economic centers in Detroit. Like many ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Jeff McManus [Jeff Mcmanus]

Results of Training “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch, Former CEO, General ...
( Category: Administration March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL

People were also asked which was their favourite Common or area of the heathlands. Two had no favourite area, one stated East Budleigh, two Aylesbeare Common and seventeen Woodbury Common. ...
( Category: Urban March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Patricia W. O'Gorman

Home of Susie Noel Adding interest to the passage between the kitchen and dining room, this fine concha is finished off with a delicate spray of leaves molded from the ...
( Category: Outdoor & Recreational Areas March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Dixon Hunt

149 A corridor along the side of the Humble (or Artless) Administrator’s Garden, Suzhou. Other cultures, too, have drawn upon a variety of arts – literary and painterly – for ...
( Category: Landscape March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Antrop & Veerle Van Eetvelde

Cushman, S. A., McGarigal, K., & Neel, M. C. (2008). Parsimony in landscape metrics: Strength, universality, and consistency. Ecological Indicators, 8(5), 691–703.Crossref De Veer, A., & Burrough, P. (1978). Physiographic ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Patrick M. Condon

Conclusion In the developed world we seem to have been drawn into spending too much on infrastructure, an infrastructure that seems to produce a dollar’s worth of environmental damage for ...
( Category: Sustainability & Green Design March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Ron Kasprisin;

The following illustrations provide examples of templates that are useful in design/planning concept generation. They can be set up for crafting methods, as illustrated here, and digital methods or templates. ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Suzannah Lessard

5 Fresh Kills One mellow winter day during my Brooklyn sojourn, just before Christmas, I set off for Red Hook with a portable easel. I like to produce a nice ...
( Category: Human Geography March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Sonja Dümpelmann

FIGURE 6.8. Sketches illustrating the sound protection provided by different types of plantings along Potsdamer Chaussee. (R. Dittmann, “Öffentliche Grünanlagen, ein Faktor zur Lärmbekämpfung,” Das Gartenamt 7, no. 8 [1958]: ...
( Category: Trees March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:J. Donald Hughes

Ten Urban Problems The impact of ancient cities on the natural environment—the land and its resources, air and water, and animal and plant populations—produced problems prefiguring many of those familiar ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:M'Closkey, Karen,VanDerSys, Keith

> 8. Loktak Lake in northeast India. Phumdis are naturally occurring mats of organic matter. The circular shapes in this image have been artificially created with phumdis for use in ...
( Category: Graphics & Design February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walliss, Jillian,Rahmann, Heike

Monitoring performance Cheap and easy to use, sensors not only record site phenomena and processes but also enable the performance monitoring of constructed designs. Ibuttons ($20–50) shown in Figure 3.15 ...
( Category: Landscape Architecture February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cureton, Paul.

Principles of Perspective A number of highly accurate survey modes mean that landscapes, cities and territories across scales can be accurately mapped and compared. Historical records can also be accessed ...
( Category: Landscape Architecture February 28,2020 )