Staging Urban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Urban Landscapes write by B. Cannon Ivers. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Staging Urban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Open urban spaces are an ideal stage for public events. An important prerequisite for their design in an increasingly heterogeneous multicultural cityscape is the relationship between design, use, and social function.The book documents both temporary as well as permanent installations of various kinds – from the open-air courtyard of a museum to the design of a river bank promenade, through to a city park.
Staging urban landscapes
Staging urban landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging urban landscapes write by . This book was released on 2018. Staging urban landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes write by Andre Viljoen. This book was released on 2012-05-04. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces
Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces write by Nicola Dempsey. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban settings (e.g. parks, woodland, nature reserves, riverbanks) are under-researched in academia and under-resourced in practice. Our growing knowledge of the benefits of natural urban spaces for wellbeing contrasts with asset management approaches in practice that view public green spaces as liabilities. Why is there a mismatch between what we know about urban green space and what we do in practice? What makes some UGS more ‘successful’ than others? And who decides on this measure of ‘success’ and how is this constituted? This book sets out to answer these and related questions by exploring a range of approaches to designing, planning and managing different natural landscapes in urban settings.
Melodramatic Landscapes
Melodramatic Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melodramatic Landscapes write by Heath Schenker. This book was released on 2009. Melodramatic Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on iconic parks in Paris, New York, and Mexico City, Heath Schenker explores the cultural and social meanings embedded in these elaborate stage sets. Schenker teases out the goals and ambitions of park proponents and describes the singular ways in which the public received and used the parks in each city. The book showcases some of the trademark features of these parks, ranging from the soaring, rocky cliffs of Buttes-Chaumont in Paris to the mythic Aztec springs of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City to the secluded Dairy in Central Park.
