Oaks in the Urban Landscape - 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 Oaks in the Urban Landscape write by Laurence Raleigh Costello. This book was released on 2011. Oaks in the Urban Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication offers a comprehensive look at the management of oaks in urban areas. As development moves into oak woodland areas, more and more oaks are becoming "urban" oaks. Oaks are highly valued in urban areas for their aesthetic, environmental, economic and cultural benefits. However, significant impacts to the health and structural stability of oaks have resulted from urban encroachment. Changes in environment, incompatible cultural practices, and pest problems can all lead to the early demise of our stately oaks. Using this book you'll learn how to effectively manage and protect oaks in urban areas - existing oaks as well as the planting of new oaks. Three key areas are addressed: selection, care, and preservation. You'll learn how cultural practices, pest management, risk management, preservation during development, and genetic diversity can all play a role in preserving urban oaks. Arborists, urban foresters, landscape architects, planners and designers, golf course superintendents, academics, and Master Gardeners alike will find this to be an invaluable reference guide.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates - 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 Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates write by Anita Berrizbeitia. This book was released on 2009. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the responses of a world-renowned landscape design firm to the difficult demands of urban areas Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul Goldberger notes, to "make you see everything, city and nature alike, with a striking intensity." Richly illustrated and handsomely designed, this is the first publication to explore a wide range of MVVA's projects, focusing on the firm's trend toward sites requiring complex technological solutions. Leading critics and historians look at twelve projects, dating from 1992 to the present, and each posing a challenge--such as contamination, isolation, and lengthy public approval proceedings. They explore the process through which the firm researches such issues and how solutions are embedded in the final aesthetics and spatial structure of the sites.
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 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.
Trees in the Urban Landscape
Trees in the Urban Landscape - 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 Trees in the Urban Landscape write by Peter J. Trowbridge. This book was released on 2004-02-09. Trees in the Urban Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This hands-on guidebook provides practical, applied information on design considerations, site planning and understand-ing, plant selection, installation, and maintenance of trees in challenging urban environments.
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.
