Landscape Perspectives

Author : Marc Antrop,Veerle Van Eetvelde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789402411836

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Landscape Perspectives by Marc Antrop,Veerle Van Eetvelde Pdf

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.

Author : Grant Reid
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780770434182

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Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid Pdf

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.

Author : Nicholas T. Dines
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031888699

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Landscape Perspective Drawing by Nicholas T. Dines Pdf

Author : Ron Williams
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 077354206X

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Landscape Architecture in Canada by Ron Williams Pdf

A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada.

Author : J.A.P. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000212952

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Perspectives on Place by J.A.P. Alexander Pdf

Perspectives on Place provides an inspiring insight into the territory of landscape photography. Using a range of historic and contemporary examples, Alexander explores the rich and diverse history of landscape photography and the many ways in which contemporary photographers engage with the landscape and their surroundings.Bridging theory and practice, this book demonstrates how mastering a variety of different photographic techniques can help you communicate ideas, explore themes, and develop more abstract concepts. With practical guidance on everything from effective composition, to managing challenging lighting conditions and working with different lenses and formats, you’ll be able to build your own varied and creative portfolio.Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and an assignment, encouraging you to explore key concepts and apply different photographic techniques to your own practice. Richly illustrated with images from some of the world’s most influential photographers, Perspectives on Place will help you to explore the visual qualities of your images and represent your surroundings more meaningfully.

Author : Giovanni Maciocco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783540767992

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Urban Landscape Perspectives by Giovanni Maciocco Pdf

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. The articles are by scholars who have a particular interest in and experience of the city project at various operative scales. They include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. The book describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape.

Author : O. Bastian,Uta Steinhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402009198

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Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology by O. Bastian,Uta Steinhardt Pdf

The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important trans-disciplinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theoretical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered. Great value is attached to describe approaches and experiences from Germany and Central Europe, and to discuss them in an international context. The book is addressed to landscape planners, managers, conservationists and architects, to biologists and geographers, to colleges, universities, authorities, and to the general public being interested in ecological issues. Among the themes are e. g. the roots and the position of landscape ecology, problems of scale and dimension, landscape analysis, diagnosis, potentials, evaluation, change, prognosis, tools like remote sensing and information systems, spatial planning and nature conservation.

Author : Roger H. Twito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Landscape
ISBN : UIUC:30112104081325

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Plotting Landscape Perspectives of Clearcut Units by Roger H. Twito Pdf

The aesthetics of clearcut units potentially visible from a distance can be improved by judicious design. Screening clearcuts from view or shaping them to characterize natural openings are current methods used for this purpose. Perspective plots illustrating how proposed clearcut units will look from specific off-site viewing points provide an appropriate means of evaluating how well the units meet desired visual objectives. This procedure has been automated on a desk-top computer system using digitizer, plotting peripherals, and topographic maps. The explanations, listings, and logic are included in this report.

Author : Barbara Bender,Margot Winer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184136

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Contested Landscapes by Barbara Bender,Margot Winer Pdf

Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action; people make them and are made by them. How people understand and engage with their material world depends upon particularities of time and place. These understandings are dynamic, variable, contradictory and open-ended. Landscapes are thus always evolving and are often volatile and contested. They are also always on the move - people may or may not be rooted, but they have 'legs'. From prehistoric times onwards people have travelled, but the process of people-on-the-move - as tourists, or on global business, as migrant workers or political or economic refugees - has vastly accelerated. How and why do people who share the same landscape have different and often violently opposed ways of understanding its significance? How do people-on-the-move make sense of the unfamiliar? How do they create a sense of place? How do they rework the memories of places left behind? There is nothing easeful about the landscapes discussed in this book, which are often harsh-edged and troubled both socially and politically. The contributors tackle contested notions of landscape to explain the key role it plays in creating identity and shaping human behaviour. This landmark study offers an important contribution towards an understanding of the complexity of landscape.

Author : John A. Wiens,Michael R. Moss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521537541

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Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology by John A. Wiens,Michael R. Moss Pdf

This book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology to provide an overview of the varied viewpoints and perspectives that make landscape ecology a focused as well as a frustratingly diverse discipline. Essays by leading landscape ecologists span multiple spectrums, addressing scientific theory as well as applied practice, conservation as well as utilization, and aquatic as well as terrestrial systems.

Author : David M. Mark,Andrew G. Turk,Niclas Burenhult,David Stea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287045

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Landscape in Language by David M. Mark,Andrew G. Turk,Niclas Burenhult,David Stea Pdf

Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists of various disciplines such as anthropologists, geographers, information scientists, linguists, and philosophers address several questions, including: Are there cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variations in the delimitation, classification, and naming of geographic features? Can alternative world-views and conceptualizations of landscape be used to produce culturally-appropriate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? Topics included: ontology of landscape; landscape terms and concepts; toponyms; spiritual aspects of land and landscape terms; research methods; ethical dimensions of the research; and its potential value to indigenous communities involved in this type of research.

Author : Jutta Kehrer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035621495

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New Horizons by Jutta Kehrer Pdf

A new generation of Chinese landscape architects, that has hardly been registered outside China, is emerging: innovative, optimistic, radical, yet rooted in local context and tradition. Thanks to their international experience in training and practice, they seamlessly combine eastern and western influences to create something new. They design open spaces in high-density cities and revitalize remote rural areas. Their projects are characterized by interaction and change. New Horizons is the first portrait of this generation: an external view provided by expert essays is followed by detailed and richly-illustrated profiles of eight successful studios including interviews with founders. An essential reading for everyone interested in the current discourse shaping the contemporary Chinese landscape architecture.

Author : M. Luc,U. Somorowska,J.B. Szmańda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319135274

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Landscape Analysis and Planning by M. Luc,U. Somorowska,J.B. Szmańda Pdf

This book presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape planning based on selected studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies presented and discussed during scientific sessions organized by the Commission of Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning of the International Geographical Union (IGU) within the framework of the IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland, August 18-22, 2014. The subject of landscape analysis and landscape planning has been of interest to geographers since the beginning of the twentieth century. This relatively new area of study, which focuses on the landscape resource patches and spatial interconnections, was first introduced as landscape ecology (Landschaftsoekologie) by Carl Troll, one of the twentieth century’s most influential physical geographers. Today, landscape studies involve adopting a holistic view of geographic environments and are closely connected to rapidly developing ecosystem, sustainable landscape and ecosystem services approaches. Modern techniques employing Geographical Information Systems are used to support spatial landscape analyses.

Author : Glenn Harper,Twylene Moyer
Publisher : Isc Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073619143

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Landscapes for Art by Glenn Harper,Twylene Moyer Pdf

Sculpture parks and gardens, whether woodland sanctuaries or urban retreats, sprawling sites or intimate oases, offer sculpture lovers and artists alike unique ways to experience the outdoors, sculpture, and the intersections between nature and culture. Since the mid-20th century, these venues have become important tourist destinations and essential aspects of public life in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle and regions such as Yorkshire in England and the Hudson Highlands in New York. Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks surveys a wide range of sculpture parks and gardens that focus on contemporary art--from well-established, museum-type institutions to small-scale, non-collecting, experimental programs. The book includes profiles of sculpture parks in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Latvia, Sweden, and Finland (among others). There are articles on key topics by art critics, landscape architects, and sculpture park professionals and interviews with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and Alfio Bonanno.

Author : Helen Bromhead
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264008

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Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives by Helen Bromhead Pdf

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. Notably, the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective, based on our cognition, vision, and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed, first of all, at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, Australian Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.