Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Author: Tadahiko Higuchi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1988-07-06

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0262580942

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants. He identifies features such as landmarks, boundaries, paths, and nodes that enable people moving through a landscape to piece together a reliable mental map of their surroundings, beginning with major structural elements and filling in with successively finer detail.

The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Author: Tadahiko Higuchi

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780262081207

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants.

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture

Author: Catherine Dee

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1134577893

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This book is an introduction to landscape architecture for students. Landscape architecture is a visual subject so the book is be illustrated with the author's own drawings.

Exploring the Visual Landscape
Exploring the Visual Landscape

Author: Steffen Nijhuis

Publisher: TU Delft

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 160750832X

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It offers clues for visual landscape assessment of spaces in cities, parks and rural areas.

Integral Sustainable Design
Integral Sustainable Design

Author: Mark DeKay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1136539646

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This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives of: Behaviours, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Integral waves. Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including: - Twelve Principles of Integral Sustainable Design - Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design - Six Perceptual Shifts for Ecological Design Thinking - Five Levels of Sustainable Design Aesthetics - Ten Injunctions for Designing Connections to Nature

Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology
Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology

Author: O. Bastian

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1402009194

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The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important trans-disciplinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theoretical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered. Great value is attached to describe approaches and experiences from Germany and Central Europe, and to discuss them in an international context. The book is addressed to landscape planners, managers, conservationists and architects, to biologists and geographers, to colleges, universities, authorities, and to the general public being interested in ecological issues. Among the themes are e. g. the roots and the position of landscape ecology, problems of scale and dimension, landscape analysis, diagnosis, potentials, evaluation, change, prognosis, tools like remote sensing and information systems, spatial planning and nature conservation.

Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective
Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective

Author: Izaak S. Zonneveld

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1461233046

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Landscape Ecology is an emerging science of gaining momentum over the past few decades in the scientific as well as in the planning-management worlds. Although the field is rooted in biology and geography, the approaches to understanding the ecology of a landscape are highly divers. This hybrid vigor provides power to the field. One can no longer view a local ecosystem or land use in isolation from global areas and time frames. The surrounding landscape mosaic and the flows and movements in a landscape must be considered, especially the linkage between humans requiring resources provided by nature, the constraints on their use as well as the responding landscape.

The Meanings of Landscape
The Meanings of Landscape

Author: Kenneth R. Olwig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1351053515

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Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea of landscape from the ancient polis and theatre through to the present day.

Countryside Planning
Countryside Planning

Author: Kevin Bishop

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1136568697

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Annotation * Major and comprehensive new volume on countryside planning and management * Edited and with contributions by the leading authorities in the field * Essential reading on the future of the countryside for all professionals, organizations, teachers and students The "drivers" of countryside management and conservation are increasingly international and European. They aim to provide comprehensive new frameworks for the whole countryside, and community-driven planning and protection. This book examines the impact and effectiveness of these approaches, their integration and practical value, drawing on a range of highly relevant case studies. The result is a volume that provides a fully up-to-date review and analysis of the pressures on the countryside, the policies for the future, and the keys to successful implementation.