Terra-Sorta-Firma - 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 Terra-Sorta-Firma write by Fadi Masoud. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Terra-Sorta-Firma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world’s continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline. For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; “reclaiming” land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy. It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation.
Designing Landscape Architectural Education
Designing Landscape Architectural Education - 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 Designing Landscape Architectural Education write by Rosalea Monacella. This book was released on 2022-09-09. Designing Landscape Architectural Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of "symptoms" – increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfire events, salinification and desertification of fertile land, and the list goes on. It reveals and amplifies complex causal relationships that are inherently present and traverse scales, sectors and communities divulging a range of impacts and inequalities. This publication asks designers and academic practitioners to describe their own work through an ecological lens, and then to articulate design approaches for developing new practices in landscape architecture teaching. Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures, the Landscape Architecture Design Studio Companion, serves as a resource for academic practitioners in the preparation and delivery of "design-research studios" and students seeking guidance for design methodologies as a part of their landscape architectural education. It draws on the manifold issues of the climate crisis as a set of drivers to examine the utilisation of a range of innovative design approaches to address the current and future priorities of the discipline. The landscape architecture discipline is evolving rapidly to respond to both a broadening and intensification of changes in the environmental, social and political conditions. These changing conditions require innovation that extend the core competencies of landscape architects. This book addresses two fundamental questions – what are the design competencies required of landscape architects to equip them to deal with the complexities brought forth by contemporary society, and as a result, how could we design the future design studio?
Island of Clouds
Island of Clouds - 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 Island of Clouds write by Gerald Brennan. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Island of Clouds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on mankind’s boldest space voyage yet—a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. What follows will be a journey more harrowing than any of them can imagine. Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the dark reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire. The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.
Terra Firma
Terra Firma - 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 Terra Firma write by Dana Marie Dusbiber. This book was released on 1993. Terra Firma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bats in the Belfry, by Design
Bats in the Belfry, by Design - 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 Bats in the Belfry, by Design write by Titus Stauffer. This book was released on 1995. Bats in the Belfry, by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fifty years after the fact, we learned that the American government had injected its citizens with plutonium, without their knowledge or consent. What else have they been up to without telling us? In Titus Stauffer's explosive techno-thriller you'll discover a few possible answers. Be forewarned , however, what you discover can be deadly!"--Back cover.
