Land Mosaics
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-11-09
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780521479806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis and synthesis of the ecology of heterogeneous land areas.
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Mosaics of Faith
Author: Rina Talgam
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasidmosaics in the Holy Land from the second century B.C.E to eighth century C.E.
Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
Author: Wenche Dramstad
Publisher: Shearwater Books
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscape ecology - the ecology of large heterogeneous areas, landscapes, regions, or simply of land mosaics, has rapidly emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning is an essential handbook that presents and explains principles of landscape ecology and provides numerous examples of how those principles can be applied in specific situations.
Mosaics as History
Author: G. W. Bowersock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-11-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780674022928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East—maps, historical images and religious scenes constituting a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In them, Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride.
Sailing to Sarantium
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1101462310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuy Gavriel Kay, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author of The Fionavar Tapestry, brings his unique storytelling imagination to an alternate Byzantine world… Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, exalted by the poets, jewel of the world and heart of an empire. Caius Crispus, known as Crispin, is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Still grieving the loss of his family, he lives only for his craft—until an imperial summons draws him east to the fabled city. Bearing with him a Queen’s secret mission and seductive promise, and a talisman from an alchemist, Crispin crosses a land of pagan ritual and mortal danger, confronting legends and dark magic. Once in Sarantium, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive. He finds it, unexpectedly, high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.
The Ecological Design and Planning Reader
Author: Forster O. Ndubisi
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2014-12-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781610914901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural environment to accommodate our daily needs for food, work, shelter, and recreation are greatly intensified. Concerted efforts to balance human use with ecological concerns are needed now more than ever. A rich body of literature on the effect of human actions on the natural environment provides a window into what we now refer to as ecological design and planning. The study and practice of ecological design and planning provide a promising way to manage change in the landscape so that human actions are more in tune with natural processes. In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader Professor Ndubisi offers refreshing insights into key themes that shape the theory and practice of ecological design and planning. He has assembled, synthesized, and framed selected seminal published scholarly works in the field from the past one hundred and fifty years——ranging from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow to Anne Whiston Spirn’s, “Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities.” The reader ends with a hopeful look forward, which suggests an agenda for future research and analysis in ecological design and planning. This is the first volume to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the history, evolution, theory, methods, and exemplary practice of ecological design and planning. The collection provides students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and our natural environment.
Urban Ecology
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1107007003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.
Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas
Author: Sun-Kee Hong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-01-29
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1402054874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas not only expands the concept of landscape ecology, but also applies its principles to man-influenced ecosystems. New dimensions of landscape ecological research in a global change such as urbanization, biodiversity, and land transformation are explored in this book. The book also includes case studies concerning landscape analysis and evaluation using spatial analysis and landscape modelling for establishing sustainable management strategy in urban and agricultural landscapes.
Experiential Landscape
Author: Kevin Thwaites
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 113429851X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book takes a holistic view of the relationship between humans and their environment, integrating experiential and spatial dimensions of the outdoors, and exploring the theory and application of environmental design disciplines, most notably landscape architecture and urban design. The book explores specific settings in which an experiential approach has been applied, setting out a vocabulary and methods of application, and offers new readings of experiential characteristics in site analysis and design. Offering readers a range of accessible mapping tools and details of what participative approaches mean in practice, this is a new, innovative and practical methodology. The book provides an invaluable resource for students, academics and practitioners and anyone seeking reflective but practical guidance on how to approach outdoor place-making or the analysis and design of everyday outdoor places.
Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation
Author: David B. Lindenmayer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0470691603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe distinctive relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation are highlighted in this original and useful guide to the theory and practice of ecological landscape design. Using original, ecologically based landscape design principles, the text underscores current thinking in landscape management and conservation. It offers a blend of theoretical and practical information that is illustrated with case studies drawn from across the globe. Key insights by some of the world’s leading experts in landscape ecology and conservation biology make Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation an essential volume for anyone involved in landscape management, natural resource planning, or biodiversity conservation.
