The book shows how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed the urban agenda, Furthermore, it is shown how different the responses of cities to this global challenge are – and how these differences between cities can be explained.
This book tests the hypothesis that place branding, a powerful marketing and management practice, increasingly blurs the distinction between the promo..
Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, ..
This bestselling title provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and ..
Incorporating a review of key philosophical and theoretical themes, and offering a socially responsive design vocabulary, Kevin Thwaites and Ian M. Si..
This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides the reader through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental fou..
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and succes..
What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disci..
This extensive work brings together a quarter century of the work of Marc Treib, taking in the cultural meaning of the designed landscape, the lives a..
A collection of essays by some of the most prominent scholars and designers in the field of contemplative landscape design, examining the principles i..
Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes a..
Bringing together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, this volume argues for a progressive and..