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Garden History

Philosophy and Design 2000 BC–2000 AD

By Tom Turner

Tom Turner, well-known teacher and writer in landscape architecture, garden design and garden history here explores more than 150 gardens over four millennia of Western…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31749-8 (Routledge)

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Of Stones and Man

From the Pharaohs to the Present Day

By Jean Kerisel

Of Stones and Man explores the many errors of judgement made by civilizations both ancient and modern across the world. Arrogance and a penchant for…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36441-6 (Taylor & Francis)

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Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

Edited by Rebecca Krinke

Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70069-6 (Routledge)

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Of Stones and Man

From the Pharaohs to the Present Day

By Jean Kerisel

Of Stones and Man explores the many errors of judgement made by civilizations both ancient and modern across the world. Arrogance and a penchant for…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38345-5 (Taylor & Francis)

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Utopias and Architecture

By Nathaniel Coleman

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70085-6 (Routledge)

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Earth Building

Methods and Materials, Repair and Conservation

By Laurence Keefe

Buildings with load-bearing earth walls were once widespread throughout Britain and many thousands still survive, including some dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Earth…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32322-2 (Taylor & Francis)

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Space Meets Status

Designing Workplace Performance

By Jacqueline Vischer

Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70105-1 (Routledge)

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Building Desire

On the Barcelona Pavilion

By George Dodds

In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32524-0 (Routledge)

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Settings and Stray Paths

Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

By Marc Treib

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70047-4 (Routledge)

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New Urbanism and American Planning

The Conflict of Cultures

By Emily Talen

New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70133-4 (Routledge)

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