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Urban landscape / by Vranckx, Bridget.;
Urban comfort (furniture): Train stations D-line -- Xurret System & Pep -- Pink bench -- Pause! -- Maggie millennium bench -- NYSE & BPC streetscapes -- Centreport windscreens -- (Parenthesis) -- P+R Sloterdijk & Zeeburg -- Common ground (squares & places): Urban Lounge -- Tower Hill Square -- Town Hall Square -- Water Culture Square -- Patio GArden Cirqada -- Boulevar Dreieich -- De Admiraal -- Twin Tower Court -- Finsbury Avenue Square -- Patch of green (parks and gardens): Castle Park -- Locomotives Park -- Nou Barris Park -- City Park Beja -- Grammont Park -- Missing link (bridges): Rolling Bridge -- Webb Bridge -- Memorial Pedestrian Bridge -- Craigieburn Bypass -- Lookout Point Aurland.
Subjects: Urban landscape architecture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sustainable stormwater management : a landscape-driven approach to planning and design / by Liptan, Thomas W.,author.(CARDINAL)415882; Santen, J. David,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)415881;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-260) and indexGuiding principles -- Stormwater and the urban environment -- Economics, policy, and politics: preparing for landscape stormwater management -- Landscape management approaches: finessing urban design with water, soil, and vegetation -- Water-accepting landscapes -- Vegetative (living) cover of impervious surfaces -- Transformation of impervious surfaces and pipes -- Imagining the future
Subjects: Rain gardens.; Urban runoff; Urban landscape architecture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wasser : Gestalten mit Wasser, von Uferpromenaden zu Wasserspielen = Water : designing with water, promenades and water features.
Subjects: Water in landscape architecture; Urban parks;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Going public : public architecture, urbanism and interventions / by Borges, Sofia(Architect),editor,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)853891; Ehmann, Sven,editor.(CARDINAL)423703; Feireiss, Lukas,writer of preface,contributor.(CARDINAL)853893; Hübner, Matthias,editor.(CARDINAL)853892; Klanten, Robert,editor.(CARDINAL)291456; Gestalten Verlag,publisher.(CARDINAL)853894;
The architecture of the last several decades was shaped by the need for individual representation and demarcation. Today, a growing counter movement is focusing on the development of public space as a means to get people together in order to exchange ideas or share experiences. Going Public presents a compelling international selection of extraordinary current architectural projects in public space. Their objectives are as diverse as the structures themselves and range from providing recreational or cultural opportunities to facilitating social interaction. As the industrial age has evolved into the information age, our cities have developed new potential. In the past, churches and marketplaces were the focus of our social lives. Today, however, different types of community centers are being established. In addition to the transformation of existing public squares, parks, and pavilions, original projects such as community gardens, outdoor movie theaters, temporary installations, and other cultural venues are being built. Thus, in the hearts of our cities--but also on their peripheries--a new kind of public space is being defined. Innovative solutions are even being found for ubiquitous features of urban life such as benches, bicycle racks, and bus stops. Going Public also showcases work that leads us out of our cities and into the countryside. Contemporary versions of hideouts, observation towers, viewing platforms, and self-guided trails use public space differently than their more traditional counterparts and expand our possibilities for experiencing our natural surroundings and landscapes. The architecture featured in Going Public may range from bold to subtle, but all of it is innovative and surprising.
Subjects: Public architecture.; Public spaces; Urban landscape architecture.;
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Great city parks / by Tate, Alan,1951-author.(CARDINAL)782999;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across western Europe and North America. As a collection they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century.""Great City Parks is based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with their managing organizations. The text is amplified by new plans and photographs of each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities. Great City Parks will appeal to practitioners and students of landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning and park management, and to people who appreciate the special role of parks in urban environments."--Jacket.
Subjects: Urban parks; Urban parks; Urban parks; Landscape architecture; Landscape architecture; Landscape architecture;
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The making of our urban landscape / by Tyack, Geoffrey,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index.Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.
Subjects: Cities and towns; Urbanization; Urban landscape architecture;
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Envisioning landscapes : the transformative environments of OJB / by Brenner, Marion,Photographer(DLC)n 90713238;
This debut monograph of the visionary landscape architecture firm OJB uncovers the philosophy that guides the practice and reveals the transformative power of landscape through a selection of case studies drawn from the firm's thirty-year history. Founded in 1989 by landscape architect James Burnett, OJB--the Office of James Burnett--has since grown to nearly one hundred professionals working across five offices and has established itself as a leader in the field for its ambitious approach to community-building through landscape. At its core, the firm believes that landscape is a social and collective tool for integration, reclamation, and healing. This principle guides all of the firm's projects across sectors, from its designs promoting restorative healthcare, such as campuses for hospitals and wellness centers, to large-scale urban landscapes conceived to reconnect and revitalize communities, such as the acclaimed Myriad Botanical Gardens and the other initiatives completed as part of Oklahoma City's Project 180 public works program. This book highlights OJB's remarkable and meaningful work--and the philosophy that drives it--through projects of varied typologies arranged in a rhythm progressing from single works to longer multi-project narratives in which landscapes connect and build on each other over several years to create thoughtfully realized and impactful environments.
Subjects: Landscape architecture; Landscape gardening; Urban parks;
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Garden to the max : joyful, visionary, maximalist design / by Woodard, Teresa,author.; Stefko, Bob,photographer.;
Urban exuberance -- Dramatic style -- Abundant naturalism -- Curated collections -- Bold tropicals."Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice--yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more. Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers ... Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner's tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, and a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects." --
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Gardening; Urban gardening.; Gardening to attract birds.; Gardening to attract wildlife.; Landscape architecture.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 9
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10 that changed America [videorecording] / by Marks, Peter(Peter D.),screenwriter.; Protess, Dan,television producer.; Baer, Geoffrey,narrator,on-screen presenter.; Andries, Daniel,television producer.; Griffin, Eddie(Producer),television producer.; Howard, Andy,1980-television producer.; Window to the World Communications, Inc.,production company.; WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.),production company.(CARDINAL)131401; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)309769;
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo.Director of photography, Tim Boyd ; editor, Frederick Steim ; original score by Steve Mullen ; executive producer, Dan Soles.Host, Geoffrey Baer.TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-G (general audience; most parents would find this program suitable for all ages).Three programs that collectively present the milestones of American architecture and city planning. 10 homes that changed America takes the viewer to a 600-year-old Native American dwelling, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, a Gothic castle in New York, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, and an early public housing project. 10 parks that changed America looks at public squares in Savannah, Georgia, a park-like cemetery near Boston, the San Antonio River Walk, a park built over a freeway in Seattle, a toxic waste site that was transformed into a park, and New York's Central Park and High Line. 10 towns that changed America examines a Spanish colonial town in Florida, William Penn's vision for Philadelphia, the Mormon plan for Salt Lake City, a failed company town near Chicago, urban renewal in Washington, D.C., and the latest ideas about city planning in Portland, Oregon.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Architecture; Dwellings; Historic buildings; Landscape architecture; Urban parks; Cities and towns; City planning;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tomorrow's garden : design and inspiration for a new age of sustainable gardening / by Orr, Stephen,1965-(CARDINAL)593310;
What's the program? -- What's the weather? -- Which plant where? -- What's the location? -- Gravel takes center stage -- Stone and steel -- The intentional lawn -- Recycling and repurposing -- Growing food at home -- Raising chickens and livestock in the city -- Shared spaces -- Gardening the street.Orr traveled from coast to coast to find gardens both large and small that show how responsible gardeners are reimagining the definition of a modern garden and addressing design, plant choice, water usage, materials, and more, in exciting, innovative, and often surprising ways.
Subjects: McCaffrey, Joan.; Loper, Lois.; Ecological landscape design.; Gardens; Urban gardens; Sustainable horticulture.; Sustainable agriculture.; Landscape architecture.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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