Living In The Landscape

Author : Rick Darke,Douglas W. Tallamy
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604694086

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The Living Landscape by Rick Darke,Douglas W. Tallamy Pdf

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 how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, 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 with superb photographs 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 is full of life and that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610910915

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The Living Landscape, Second Edition by Frederick R. Steiner Pdf

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 : Patrick Whitefield
Publisher : Permanent Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1856230430

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The Living Landscape by Patrick Whitefield Pdf

"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 : Laurence Douny
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611328912

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Living in a Landscape of Scarcity by Laurence Douny Pdf

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives—water, earth, and millet. Douny’s study is an important addition to ecological anthropology, to the study of West African cultures, to the understanding of material culture, and to anthropological theory.

Author : Liat Margolis,Alexander Robinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783764377007

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Living Systems by Liat Margolis,Alexander Robinson Pdf

The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. These materials include biodegradable geotextiles, super-absorbent polymers, and plants that react to changing soil conditions. This book presents the available materials and technologies in the context of practical applications.

Author : Garrett Eckbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258353229

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Landscape for Living by Garrett Eckbo Pdf

Author : Steve Bender
Publisher : Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0376038772

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Southern Living Landscape Book by Steve Bender Pdf

This volume takes readers on a tour through the latest concepts in landscaping ideas. Editors have included 600 full-color photos for inspiration, plus a 100-page gallery of Southern gardens and a section of step-by-step garden projects and innovative

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0881925454

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The American Woodland Garden by Anonim Pdf

This award-winning book promotes a garden aesthetic based on the strengths and opportunities of the woodland, including play of light, sound, scent, seasonal drama, and the architectural interest of woody plants. Accompanied by an alphabetical list of suitable plants.

Author : Selcen Küçüküstel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730632

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Embracing Landscape by Selcen Küçüküstel Pdf

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015035735755

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Living in the Landscape by Arnold Berleant Pdf

"Many more of our decisions to conserve nature have been motivated by environmental aesthetics than by environmental ethics, more by beauty than by duty. This book by Arnold Berleant is therefore especially welcome and important. It will help to advance an inquiry that has been badly neglected but is sorely needed". -- J. Baird Callicott, author of Earth's Insights. "In the past thirty years, Arnold Berleant has been calling attention to the ethics and aesthetics of the environment. He is indeed America's latter-day Henry David Thoreau". -- E. F. Kaelin, author of An Aesthetics for Art Educators.

Author : Anna & Anna & Black,Anna Johnson,Ri Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 050050119X

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Living in the Landscape by Anna & Anna & Black,Anna Johnson,Ri Johnson Pdf

From remote cliff tops to the heart of a rainforest, this book features some of Australia and New Zealand's most breath-taking homes and explores new and exciting relationships between landscape and design. It examines how architects increasingly use various nuanced landscape conditions as inspiration and sites for creativity.

Author : Francois Jullien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786603395

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Living Off Landscape by Francois Jullien Pdf

Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'? In this important new book, one of France's most influential living theorists argues that the first civilization to truly consider landscape was China. In giving landscape the name 'mountain(s)-water(s)', the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. The Chinese conception speaks of a correlation between high and low, between the still and the motile, between what has form and what is formless, between what we see and what we hear. No longer a matter of 'vision', landscape becomes a matter of living. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason's unthought choices, and to take a fresh look at our more basic involvement in the world.

Author : Peter Somerville-Large,Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1879373939

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Ireland by Peter Somerville-Large,Seamus Heaney Pdf

A critically acclaimed photographic and literary celebration of Ireland now in trade paperback. The book features 120 color photographs of the Irish landscape by Tom Kelly, "the David Muench of Ireland", and poetry by Seamus Heaney. Author Somerville-Large also wrote The Coast of West Cork and Irish Eccentrics.

Author : Stijn Arnoldussen
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 9789088900105

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A Living Landscape by Stijn Arnoldussen Pdf

Today, half the Netherlands is below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance when it comes to maintaining present-day habitation of the Dutch low-lands. In prehistory, however, large parts of the Dutch landscape were highly dynamic due to ongoing fluvial sedimentation. Vast deltaic areas with ceaseless river activity formed the backdrop against which prehistoric occupation took place. Although such landscapes may seem inhospitable, the often excellently preserved archaeological evidence indicates that people lived in these lowlands throughout prehistory. This book describes why Bronze Age farmers were keen to settle here and how these prehistoric communities structured the landscape around their house-sites at various scales. Using a vast body of evidence from several large-scale excavations in the Dutch river area, the author reconstructs the changes in the cultural landscape over time. Starting from the Middle Neolithic, changing preferences for settlement site locations and changes in domestic architecture are traced in detail to the Iron Age. However, for proper understanding of the cultural landscape, not only settlements but also graves and patterns of object deposition - and their landscape characteristics - are discussed. By using evidence from over 50 major excavations, yielding over 300 house plans, this book contains by far the richest data-set on Dutch Bronze Age settlements. Most of these results have not previously been published in English, making this book of over 500 pages a true academic treasure for an international audience. The in-depth presentation of Bronze Age settlement sites, as well as the critical discussion of models and premises current in later prehistoric settlement archaeology, have an important relevance stretching beyond the Dutch lowland areas on which it is based. The wealth of high-quality Dutch data is presented as a synthesized (yet well-annotated) narrative, that rises above mere site interpretation, even more so due to its landscape-scale focus. Therefore this book is a must-have for those interested in later prehistoric cultural landscapes and settlement archaeology.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317875

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Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita. Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and passive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.