Download or read book Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui written by Kongjian Yu and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about ideal landscapes and Feng-Shui. Using evolutionary and anthropological approaches, Peking University professor Kongjian Yu--who holds a doctorate degree in Design from Harvard--explores the origin, structure, and meanings of Feng-Shui in juxtaposition to the ideal landscape models in Chinese culture. Using illustrative site observations and literature, Yu argues that Feng-Shui landscapes share similar structures with other Chinese ideal landscapes--the implications of which are deconstructed into terms of geography, anthropology, ecology, and philosophy. As a landscape architect and urbanist, Professor Yu respects the role of Feng-Shui in the making of places, yet still is in opposition to its superstitious nature. Well illustrated and poetically written, this book is a must-read for those who are interested in Feng-Shui, as well as for those who care about their daily living environment in general--especially those who practice architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Download or read book The Countryside Ideal written by Michael Bunce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `God made the country, man made the town.' William Cowper's words, written two centuries ago, underline an idealisation of rural life and landscape which persists to this day. What are the main historical processes and ideas underlying the continuing attachment to the countryside? How have these shaped popular values and lifestyles influenced artistic expression, defined attitudes to nature, country life and 8andscape, and affected the development of both rural and urban landscapes? What are the consequences for society and the environment? These are the central questions addressed in this book. The Countryside Ideal draws together diverse images of landscape to explore this preoccupation with place, culture and representation in the West.
Download or read book The World Before the Deluge written by Louis Figuier and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ideal Landscape written by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the landscape paintings of Carracci, Poussin and Lorrain from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism and metaphysics.
Download or read book The World Before the Deluge Containing Twenty five Ideal Landscapes of the Ancient World Designed by Riou and Two Hundred and Eight Figures of Animals Plants with Illustrative Text Translated from the Fourth French Edition by W S O written by Guillaume Louis FIGUIER and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The world before the deluge tr from the 4th Fr ed by W S O revised by H W Bristow written by Louis Guillaume Figuier and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Before the Deluge Translated from the Fourth French Edition written by Louis Figuier and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use and Urban Form written by Grant Ian Thrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. The Consumption Theory of Land Rent or CTLR is a comprehensive model of the urban landscape developed by Grant Ian Thrall. Working from the basic idea that the same underlying processes account for the spatial structure of all places, Thrall shows how CTLR can be used as a tool to explain and predict the long-term consequences of policy decisions by governments, such as introducing light rail rapid transit, or parameter changes in the economy, such as a general rise in real income. Thrall’s methodology for the analysis of land rent and land use in a significant research accomplishment and a major analytical tool for students and professionals within city planning, regional science, urban geography, and urban economics.
Download or read book Our Earth and Its Story written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooper s Landscapes written by Blake Nevius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Download or read book A New Garden Ethic written by Benjamin Vogt and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
Download or read book IDEAL LANDSCAPE written by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lawnscaping written by Denny Schrock and published by Scotts Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the experts in lawn care comes Scotts Lawnscaping, the complete guide to landscaping your lawn. With a carpet of green as your starting point, learn how to create a landscape that offers visual pleasure while increasing the value of your home"--Publisher website (November 2006).
Download or read book Nature Space and the Sacred written by S. Bergmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.
Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Propaganda and Zionist Education written by Yoram Bar-Gal and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Jewish National Fund and the ways it encouraged Jews around the world to buy land in Palestine in the years 1924-1947. The Jewish National Fund [JNF] is the executive body established by the Zionist movement in 1902 to buy land in Palestine for the Jewish people. Very quickly, however, it became an international organization and soon had branchesin many countries throughout the world. One of the tasks of these branches was to mediate between the central office in Jerusalem and the millions of Jews who donated money to buy land. The organization, which is still active throughout the Jewish world, concerned itself with "the marketing of ideology" the dissemination of symbols, knowledge and ideas to the masses of the Jewish people, and converted them into money and real estate property. In thememories of much of World Jewry the JNF is linked with memories of their childhoods and the forming of their identities. The memory was, in fact, fashioned by the Propaganda Department of the JNF which worked through the mass communications media in the Jewish world and made its presence massively felt in the Jewish education networks in many countries. Among the most remembered items are "the Blue Box", the flagship of the organization, and the stamps distributed to schools, which were miniature posters making political declarations. Up until today there has been virtually no research carried out on these aspects of Zionist propaganda which helped to fashion this collective memoryand left its mark upon Jewish culture in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Yoram Bar-Gal is Professor of Geography at Haifa University in Israel.
Download or read book The Motifs and Characters in the Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy and in the Laud Troy Book written by Walter Wilflingseder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the alliterative Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy (c. 1400) and the Laud Troy Book (c. 1400), a metrical romance, deal with the lives and feats of chivalric heroes and place special emphasis on the psychological effects of love. This book is a study of the motifs in John Clerk's and the Laud-poet's narratives and of their characterization of the Trojan War's principal actors. Both writers used the same source, but their preferences for motifs and their attitudes toward the persons involved were often quite different. Thirteen illustrations, mainly from medieval Guido manuscripts, serve as a stimulus to those who want to know more about the medieval understanding of the Trojan War.
