Meanwhile Gardens
Author: Jamie McCullough
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
Author: Emily Whaley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-04-02
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0684843870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vibrant, opinionated, and totally engaging voice of 85-year-old Emily Whaley transforms a guided tour of one of the most visited private gardens in America into a magical adventure, alive with tidbits of advice and deeply moving reflections. Illustrations.
Union
Author: Max Wilkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1350442011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe city is sweet and summered and partly asleep. The city is angry. And tonight: one of us is going to die. On the eve of the biggest deal of her career, Saskia, an uber-successful property developer runs from the meeting, all the way home down the Grand Union Canal. Plagued by phone calls and ghosts, she meets a myriad of characters looking to make or break her. She realises, as her shiny life unravels, that she doesn't know herself anymore or the city she once loved. Can she still save a little piece of it? From the award-winning, Offie-nominated writer of Rainer, Max Wilkinson's Union is a wildly hilarious odyssey through London, in all its brilliant, booze-soaked yuppified but still punk glory. Just as Saskia fears she is losing her own soul to greed, it's about the fear that London is losing that same battle but is still defined by a beautiful beating heart and the people who live in it. Born from creative workshops led for several years by Max with local communities across London, Union is a black comedy, a love letter and a passionate call to arms. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Arcola Theatre, London, in July 2023.
The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times
Author: Naomi Milthorpe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1498570216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and practices of austerity gardening in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone cultural texts, The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times explores the variegated impact of austerity in conjunction with the representation of the garden in the national context of England in the mid-century, and how garden imagery is embedded within and illuminates the political, economic, and social contexts of literary production.
Landscape and Sustainability
Author: John F. Benson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005-11-29
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1135804044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSustainability is highly topical but no-one has yet examined its relationship to landscape architecture in any detail Contributions from leading academics and professionals in the field Will be regarded as the definitive work on the subject Breadth of approach: subject examined from planning, design, science and management perspectives
Temporary Gardens
Author: Raffaella Sini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-05-30
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1317422147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The flexibility and new challenges invested in non-permanent landscapes has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for professionals and impromptu designers. Raffaella Sini examines the historical evolution of the genre, exploring theory, narratives, and strategies informing 80 temporary gardens built in France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and the United States. Key topics include: • temporary gardens in 1970s avant-garde art and 1980s public art; • temporary gardens as opportunities to work with live processes, practice inclusion, and explore concepts of social justice and ecology; • temporary gardens to redefine the vocabulary of garden design; and • temporary gardens in tactical urbanism. The book comprehensively decodifies the full range of ephemeral gardens: uprooted, mobile, itinerant, movable, postmodern, installation, exhibited, conceptual, theme, pop-up, guerrilla, grassroots, meanwhile, interim, provisional, activist, community, and parklet. Beyond physical duration, time-focused design in gardens affects the entire process of conceiving, building, experiencing, and managing green spaces; using short-term formats, anyone can invent, trial, and experiment in a condensed experience of landscape. The temporary garden emerges as critical cultural ground for the discourse in landscape architecture, art, ephemeral urbanism, and in urban, landscape, and garden design. It is inspirational reading for designers and students alike.
The Greening of the Cities
Author: David Nicholson-Lord
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1135795150
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Infrastructure Delivery Planning
Author: Morphet, Janice
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1447316827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set out and analysed, including the development of government policy, planning regulation, funding, environmental processes and legal challenges. Situating this within international, European and domestic economic, territorial and social policy, the author draws on a variety of practical examples to discuss the role of different institutions in the delivery of infrastructure and to illustrate the various issues and merits of each approach. This is a key text for those engaged in the study and application of infrastructure delivery planning including planners, engineers, public administrators and policy advisers.
Outdoor London
Author: Ms. Eleanor Ross
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0711239975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon is a patchwork of wild spaces, open water, parklands and adventure playgrounds. With so much green space, this is the ideal guide to get exploring. Whether a local or a visitor looking to see the wilder side of the big city, Outdoor London covers the full spectrum of outdoor opportunities. If you’re looking for water to paddle in or on, paths to amble down slowly or careen down on mountain bikes, wide open spaces for music festivals or simply to find an empty pasture, you’ll find something for everyone in this easily portable London guide.
Research Handbook on Urban Design
Author: Marion Roberts
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-01-18
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1800373473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the UN-Habitat estimating that by 2035 the majority of the world’s population will be living in metropolitan areas, this cutting-edge Research Handbook explores the emerging field of urban design and its place in contemporary scholarship.
