Download or read book The Vertical Garden written by Patrick Blanc and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.
Download or read book Grow a Living Wall written by Shawna Coronado and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes called "Green Walls" or "Vertical Gardens," living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow! Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help! One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool. In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make. Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.
Download or read book Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning written by Klaus-Jürgen Evert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, multilingual, encyclopedic dictionary in two volumes covers terms regularly used in landscape and urban planning, as well as environmental protection. The languages are American and British English, Spanish (with many Latin-American equivalents), French, and German. The encyclopedia also provides various interpretations of the terms at the planning, legal or technical level, which make its meaning more precise and its usage clearer.
Download or read book Vertical Gardens written by Anna Lambertini and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Demi Dowd advertises her womb for rent on the cafeteria bulletin board of the research center, Dr. John Trammell-Bragg discovers he has a daughter conceived the old-fashioned way; one man passing time with one woman in the back seat of a rental car.
Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lorette System of Pruning written by Louis Lorette and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Private Gardens written by Alejandro Bahamón and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the urban context over the last decades has made it increasingly difficult to find space for a garden within large cities. As a result, designers are obliged to find strategical and elaborate solutions to make the most of limited surface areas, marking a radical shift in traditional landscape architecture. Small Private Gardens presents 136 pages with over 140 images of some of the most recent and interesting small private garden spaces around the world that employ innovative layout concepts and creative decoration ideas that serve as an inspiration to those interested in design and owners of small gardens. Book jacket.
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Gardening written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eugenics in the Garden written by Fabiola López-Durán and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019 As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and forth between France, Brazil, and Argentina, Fabiola López-Durán uncovers the complicity of physicians and architects on both sides of the Atlantic, who participated in a global strategy of social engineering, legitimized by the authority of science. In doing so, she reveals the ideological trajectory of one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier, who deployed architecture in what he saw as the perfecting and whitening of man. The first in-depth interrogation of eugenics’ influence on the construction of the modern built environment, Eugenics in the Garden convincingly demonstrates that race was the main tool in the geopolitics of space, and that racism was, and remains, an ideology of progress.
Download or read book Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice written by Chiara Certomà and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address – together with environmental and planning questions – the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. Through a critical exploration of international case studies, this collection investigates whether, and how, gardeners are willing and able to contrast urban spatial arrangements that produce peculiar forms of social organisation and structures for inclusion and exclusion, by considering pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.
Download or read book The Constant Gardener written by Holly Kerr Forsyth and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an enormous range of subjects, this essential guide to your garden describes how to cultivate and care for your favourite plants; how to grow fruit trees, lay a lawn or design a 'potager'. The Constant Gardener reveals the fascinating history of the rose, discusses pruning techniques, tells you how to create nutrient-rich compost, pave a path or lay a hedge. It is packed with handy hints, recipes and stories.
Download or read book Le Corbusier uvre compl te Volume 4 1938 1946 written by Willy Boesiger and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.
Download or read book Barth l my Gri o architectes written by Barthélémy-Griño architectes and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippe Barthélémy from France and Sylvia Griño from Uruguay have been projecting buildings in France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Brazil and the Far East for more than 20 years. Amongst their most prominent projects are a number of boutiques for the designer of luxury gifts and accessories, Louis Vuitton, in Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and Brazil. In addition to other awards, Barthélémy-Griño were nominated for Le Moniteur’s renowned Equerre d’argent prize for their sports centre in Nanterre with its innovative wood construction. This book documents in detail the most significant projects from Barthélémy-Griño. Der Franzose Philippe Barthélémy und die Uruguayerin Sylvia Griño realisieren seit rund 20 Jahren zahlreiche Bauten in Frankreich, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Griechenland, Island, Brasilien und verschiedenen fernöstlichen Ländern. Zu ihren prominentesten Projekten gehören diverse Läden für den Luxusprodukthersteller Louis Vuitton in Deutschland, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Süd-Korea und Brasilien. Neben verschiedenen anderen Preisen wurden Barthélémy und Griño auch für den renommierten Equerre d’argent-Preis nominiert (für das Sportzentrum in Nanterre mit seiner innovativen Holzkonstruktion), die wichtigste Architekturauszeichnung Frankreichs. Das Buch dokumentiert ausführlich die wichtigsten Projekte von Barthélémy-Griño.
Download or read book Hydroponics written by Nitish Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Alternatives written by Doctor Martin Parker and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.
Download or read book The Landscape Approach written by Bernard Lassus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiarity with the work of Bernard Lassus, the leading French landscape architect, is essential for anyone seriously interested in contemporary landscape experience and design. Now, with this first collection of his writings to be translated into English, the contributions of Lassus can finally be fully appreciated by a wider audience. Perhaps best known for the speculative base that sustains his work and thought, Lassus is an artist whose philosophical concerns precede and determine his design work. For him, attention to the interactive nature of the landscape underlies all projects. He approaches each site in pursuit of the particular opportunities and challenges it presents and is ever mindful of the way in which observers will experience the space. He does not allow experience to be relegated to by-product of design. Instead, as one of his close collaborators explained, for Lassus form is not primary, it is induced from the articulation of intention. The essays in The Landscape Approach afford readers a look into some of Lassus's most important projects--the Butterfly Bridge at Istres, the highway rest area at Nimes-Caissargues, the Park of Duisburg-Nord, the Garden of Returns for the Corderie Royale at Rochefort, and the Tuileries in Paris--and furnish provocative insight into Lassus's unique bonding of theory and practice. As is the case with his garden designs, Bernard Lassus's volume is a true experience. It is sure to become a classic in the field.
Download or read book Assembling the Centre Architecture for Indigenous Cultures written by Janet McGaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural interests of Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant community gathering that fail to garner the economic and politic support to remain viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely static. They are places of ‘emergence’, assembled and re-assembled along a range of vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of architecture. How might the traditional concerns of architecture – site, space, form, function, materialities, tectonics – be reconfigured to express the complex and varied social identities of contemporary Indigenous peoples in colonised nations? This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the social and political project of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture counts when designing Indigenous Cultural Centres? How does architectural history and contemporary practice territorialise spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is architecture for Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised? This ambitious and provocative study pursues a new architecture for colonised Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of recognition to its heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual engagement as a crucial condition for architectural projects that design across cultural difference. The book’s structure, method, and arguments are dialogically assembled around narratives told by Indigenous people of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial justice, and architectural presence in settler dominated societies. Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these accounts.
