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“thomas w cook”

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  • Sustainable Landscape Management

    Design, Construction, and Maintenance

    by Ann Marie VanDerZanden, Thomas W. Cook ...
    THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LANDSCAPESA must-have guide for anyone working with landscapes, Sustainable Landscape Management eases the transition of the landscape industry into a new era of green consciousness. Filled with examples that illustrate best practices, the book provides a practical framework for the development of sustainable management strategies from design to ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

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  • The Artful Garden

    Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design

    by James van Sweden, Tom Christopher ...
    “I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It’s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of plants, paths, and ornaments into an adventure.”—James van SwedenGuided by world-renowned landscape architect James van Sweden and ... Read more

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  • Flowscapes

    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • Landscape Detailing Volume 1

    Enclosures

    by Michael Littlewood ...
    Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works. Volume I, Enclosures, covers walls (free-standing, screen and retaining), fences, gates, barriers and bollards. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction and then ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Designing Rainwater Harvesting Systems

    Integrating Rainwater into Building Systems

    by Celeste Allen Novak, Eddie Van Giesen, Kathy M. DeBusk ...
    Water conservation is one of the most effective sustainable design practices, yet few professionals know how to collect and use rainwater effectively. Rainwater Harvesting the first comprehensive book on designing rainwater harvesting systems. It provides practical guidelines for developing a rainwater harvesting strategy, taking into account climate, public policies, environmental impact, and end ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • Lighthouses

    by Victoria Charles ...
    The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports.This beacon of maritime signalisation has guided sailors since antiquity.The first known lighthouse appeared on the island of Pharos, and was the remarkable Lighthouse of Alexandria; however, it seems that volcanoes like Stromboli and its frequent eruptions were possibly at the origin of this invention, as the fires ... Read more

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  • Green Roof Ecosystems

    Edited by Richard K. Sutton ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective. It reviews, explains, and poses questions about monitoring, substrate, living components and the abiotic, biotic and cultural aspects connecting green roofs to the fields of community, landscape and urban ecology. The work contains examples of green roof venues that ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Practical Manual of Land Development

    by Barbara C. Colley ...
    The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded. It is required reading for young engineers and a convenient reference for experienced engineers. This is the essential book for civil engineers in land development and provides helpful information for all land development professionals including feasibility studies and cost estimating. Practical Manual ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Public Produce

    The New Urban Agriculture

    by Darrin Nordahl ...
    Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

    Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities

    Edited by S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, Brian McGrath ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    by James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • BIM for Landscape

    by Landscape Institute ...
    BIM (Building Information Modelling) is transforming working practices across the built environment sector, as clients, professionals, contractors and manufacturers throughout the supply chain grasp the opportunities that BIM presents. The first book ever to focus on the implementation of BIM processes in landscape and external works, BIM for Landscape will help landscape professionals understand ... Read more

    $79.99 USD