Download or read book The Permaculture City written by Toby Hemenway and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food—connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways—applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs. The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a “job” and a “livelihood,” and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community. This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.
Download or read book From Garden Cities to New Towns written by Dennis Hardy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy; and finally it assesses the campaing as a major factor in the emergence of modern town and planning, and as a backdrop against which to examine current issues.
Download or read book Raymond Unwin written by Mervyn Miller and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) was one of the best-known pioneers of town planning. Inspired by Willian Morris and Fabianism he designed new prototypes for working class housing. The design of 20th-century housing, new suburbs and new towns perhaps owes more to Unwin, and to the works in Letchworth, New Earswick and Hampstead Garden Suburb than to any other individual.
Download or read book Gardener George Goes to Town written by Susan Moxley and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a handful of seeds and a green thumb, Gardener George brings riotous color to a gray and dingy town.
Download or read book The City and Town Gardener written by Linda Yang and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics' Choice: Voted One of the Year's Best Books by Publishers Weekly With 64 pages of color photographs, black-and-white drawings throughout, and an updated list of 100 sources of plants and supplies Here is the definitive guide for gardening in small spaces and containers, covering planting, design, and maintenance. As delightful as it is comprehensive, this book is written with the warmth, enthusiasm, and clarity that since 1979 has distinguished Linda Yang's columns in the Home Section of The New York Times. It will inspire gardeners coping with the limited confines of a small backyard or front garden, patio, balcony, doorstep, terrace, rooftop, or deck. Reviewers From Coast to Coast Praised the Original Hardcover Edition
Download or read book City Bountiful written by Laura J. Lawson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The social history of American cities would not be complete without a full account of the rise of community open spaces. Lawson does exactly this by providing a compelling and poetic account of the history and making of urban gardens. Combining solid scholarship with engaging images of the gardens and stories of their makers, this book sheds new light on the value of urban open space. More important, it explains why community gardens need to stand alongside city parks as permanent open spaces. Essential reading for community developers and landscape architects as well as anyone who ventures outside, enthusiasm and shovel in hand, to improve their local environment.—Mark Francis, author of Urban Open Space and Village Homes "The definitive history of the past hundred years of America's experience with community gardens. A labor of love by a garden activist, the book appears at a most appropriate time—today our city dwellers and suburbanites are retreating onto carpets of passive open space tended by homeowner associations and lawn care outfits. Lawson thoughtfully analyzes the weaknesses of community gardens when used as a response to social crises and, by contrast, investigates community gardens as an alternative to today's managed care of open space. Her history clearly presents a way of community living that we can elect if we choose her wisdom."—Sam Bass Warner, Jr, author of To Dwell Is to Garden "An important book about how the urban gardening movement is transforming our landscape and reconnecting us to the land."—Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse
Download or read book Building a New Town Finland s New Garden City Tapiola written by Heikki von Hertzen and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study of the creation of a recent new town.
Download or read book Garden Cities of To morrow written by Ebenezer Howard and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1902-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Town Garden 1700 1840 written by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the contribution of domestic gardens to the texture of 18th and early 19th century London, the author explores the small gardens, their owners and their significance to the development of the metropolis.
Download or read book Growing Vegetables in Town and City written by Victor Rickman Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Garden of Ideas written by Richard Aitken and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers of the late eighteenth century to the concerns of twenty-first-century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. The Garden of Ideas is embellished with an unparalleled array of images - paintings, drawings, prints, plans, and photographs - each richly evocative of their time and most never previously published. Unearthed from around Australia, and many from overseas, these images carry the story of Australian garden style down the years, in the process criss-crossing social and cultural history across the wide extremes of our continent. Richard Aitken, whose book Botanical Riches was published in 2006 to popular and critical acclaim, brings a lifetime of experience to The Garden of Ideas. He achieves fresh insights and presents our passion for garden-making with wit and flair. The Garden of Ideas is a valuable source book for the sophisticated gardener and an indispensable companion for the garden lover.
Download or read book Fictions of the City written by Matthew Taunton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.
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