Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.
This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.
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Ray reveals these quixotic spaces through constructed drawings, collaged photographs, and insightful text.
Douglas Johnson: Southwest Traditions and Modern Icons
This is the first volume to showcase the Crawford House; it is emblematic of the dynamic interplay between art, architecture, and representation that characterizes Morphosis' work. -- from back cover.
Looks at the development of an active relationship between the public and ruins as to how they can be preserved and used.
This book examines the role and utilization of workplace 'space': how it is organized; how it can reflect organisational values; how it can affect employee identities; and the many ways in which the physical environment can influence and ...
The seventh edition of Simplified Design of Steel Structures is an excellent reference for architects and engineers who need information about the common uses of steel for the structures of buildings.
... previous experience in park design was gained through working under John Nash on the Regent's Park ( 1811 - c . 1828 ) . ... the La Follette legislation regulating grazing , preservation of the Appalachian watersheds , the Palisades ...
Warwickshire
... we owe thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Anderson ; Ed Cauduro ; Douglas S. Cramer and the Douglas S. Cramer ... and Kate Keller , the Museum's Chief Fine Arts Photographer For the organization of the exhibition itself ( as well as ...
The bond Colorado. of the concrete to the thin brick is dependent on a mechanical key provided by dovetailed slots in the thin brick as well as the balance between the initial rate of absorption of the brick and the cement-to-water ...