The most complete, up-to-date reference to landscape architecture.
New edition: More examples, more technical content, more illustrations.
Software tools, Clean Water Act changes, and more
New technologies, new regulations, new opportunities.
The most complete, up-to-date reference to landscape architecture.
Since it was first published, Landscape Architecture Construction has been the most useful guide and reference of its kind. This eagerly anticipated Third Edition has been completely revised to reflect every critical change in landscape construction, especially the dramatic changes in technology that have revolutionized the field. It also offers updated guidelines and techniques for compliance with the Clean Water Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, NPDES, ISTEA, and other key federal legislation.
Up-to-the-minute coverage includes:
- New introductory material for beginning practitioners and students.
- Details of new construction materials and methods for transportation systems, landscaping, and Segmental Retaining Wall (SWR) systems.
- New site measurement, layout, and construction drawing techniques.
- Enhanced coverage of contour construction and earthwork calculations.
- Detailed drainage techniques: site hydrology tools, erosion control, and more.
- All-new chapters on lighting, fountains, and water features.
This brand-new edition combines a thorough primer on construction theory with practical, field-tested solutions for all the landscaping projects you're likely to encounter. It contains more step-by-step procedures, more tables, more equations-plus new, computer-generated illustrations from start to finish. Whether you're a landscape professional, civil engineer, or student, Landscape Architecture Construction, Third Edition will be the most valuable landscaping reference you own.
Price: $95.00
Despite the multiplicity of publications on urban development there has for a long time been a need for a clear and coherent presentation of recent developments in town planning. The present publication aims to fill this gap. It begins at the point at which the pattern for the urban constellation of our times was set by the upheavals of the French Revolution and by industrialization. The survey adopts the Anglo-Saxon narrative approach to history, and deals with the main town planning factors that came to the fore in the 19th century: industrialization and urban growth; Utopian models for estates and towns; urban redevelopment, urban improvement and urban expansion; paternalistic provision of workers' housing; aesthetic attempts at renewal and approaches to reform through the idea of the garden city. The treatment of these themes makes it clear to what extent the present situation in towns and cities was determined by 19th-century ideas and enterprises. Thus the book gives anyone interested in urban development a supply of facts and strategies, making it a compendium of important criteria for future urban planning decisions.
Drawing the Landscape Second Edition If you want to approach drawing as a means to a better understanding of the natural and built environment and one's own creative potential, Chip Sullivan's Drawing the Landscape offers the inspiration and the tools. The Second Edition of this useful book helps you unlock your creative potential, cultivate your own personal form of expression,and prepare professional graphic presentations in landscape architecture and architecture. From quick sketches to highly finished works in various media, Drawing the Landscape presents a broad range of ways to render the natural and the built environment. The book covers the basics of sketching the landscape and achieving convincing perspective drawings, and also introduces innovative freehand drawing techniques that add a more creative dimension to your work. Additionally, it discusses the philosophy of drawing as a method to enhance your observational ability. But this book offers more than technical instruction - its emphasis on individuality and artistic experimentation distinguishes it from other art and design books currently on the market. The author discusses equipment, techniques, tones, textures,and different types of drawing used to compose the landscape, but also recommends drawing practices,such as keeping a daybook, that keep the creative juices flowing. The Second Edition of Drawing the Landscape updates every chapter of the popular First Edition, and features:a new chapter entitled "The Figure in the Landscape"a new color insertfreehand perspective techniquesmore examples of final drawingspractical group visualization exercises that facilitate the book's use in the classroom.Illustrated with the author's own highly acclaimed freehand drawings, each chapter of Drawing the Landscape presents practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and suggestions for further reading. The book offers solid advice about preparing design projects for professional competition. Whether you are a landscape architecture professional, architect, designer, artist, illustrator, or student, Drawing the Landscape gives you the skills and confidence to realize your creative potential.
