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The Miracle Pill
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-01-21
The Miracle Pill written by Peter Walker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Self-Help categories.
'This book is pretty life-changing – encouraging, optimistic, rich with information. It got me off the sofa.' Jeremy Vine 'This is such a lovely, ambitious, fascinating book. Essential lockdown reading. It allows us to reimagine our world and our bodies: we can move more.' Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV presenter 'Truly uplifting' Chris Boardman What is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, if it was turned into a drug, would be the most valuable drug in the world? The answer is movement and the good news is that it's free, easy and available to everyone. Four in ten British adults, and 80% of children, are so sedentary they don’t meet even the minimum recommended levels for movement. What’s going on? The answer is simple: activity became exercise. What for centuries was universal and everyday has become the fetishised pursuit of a minority, whether the superhuman feats of elite athletes, or a chore slotted into busy schedules. Yes, most people know physical activity is good for us. And yet 1.5 billion people around the world are so inactive they are at greater risk of everything from heart disease to diabetes, cancer, arthritis and depression, even dementia. Sedentary living now kills more people than obesity, despite receiving much less attention, and is causing a pandemic of chronic ill health many experts predict could soon bankrupt the NHS. How did we get here? Daily, constant exertion was an integral part of humanity for millennia, but in just a few decades movement was virtually designed out of people’s lives through transformed workplaces, the dominance of the car, and a built environment which encourages people to be static. In a world now also infiltrated by ubiquitous screens, app-summoned taxis and shopping delivered to your door, it can be shocking to realise exactly how sedentary many of us are. A recent study found almost half of middle-aged English people don’t walk continuously for ten minutes or more in an average month. At current trends, scientists forecast, the average US adult will expend little more energy in an average week than someone who spent all their time in bed. This book is a chronicle of this very modern and largely unexplored catastrophe, and the story of the people trying to turn it around. Through interviews with experts in various fields - doctors, scientists, architects and politicians - Peter Walker explores how to bring more movement into the modern world and, most importantly, into your life. Forget the gym, introducing quick and easy lifestyle changes can slow down the ageing process and even reverse many illnesses and increase mental wellbeing.
How Cycling Can Save The World
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-04
How Cycling Can Save The World written by Peter Walker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Transportation categories.
Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle. Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation method of choice for generations. But as the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer—with its dramatic effects on pollution, the way it cuts people off from their communities, and the alarming rate at which people are injured and killed in crashes. Walker argues that the simplest way to tackle many of these problems at once is with one of humankind's most perfect inventions—the bicycle. In How Cycling Can Save the World, Walker takes readers on a tour of cities like Copenhagen and Utrecht, where everyday cycling has taken root, demonstrating cycling’s proven effect on reducing smog and obesity, and improving quality of life and mental health. Interviews with public figures—such as Janette Sadik-Khan, who led the charge to create more pedestrian- and cyclist- friendly infrastructure in New York City—provide case studies on how it can be done, and prove that you can make a big change with just a few cycling lanes and a paradigm shift. Meticulously researched and incredibly inspiring, How Cycling Can Save the World delivers on its lofty promise and leads readers to the realization that cycling could not only save the world, but have a lasting and positive impact on their own lives.
Pwp Landscape Architecture
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Pwp Landscape Architecture written by Peter Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture categories.
Book features projects created since 2005 that show the range of the firm's work, including twelve built projects and eight works in progress.
Paintings By Peter Walker
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Author : Ingrid Jenkner
language : en
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University
Release Date : 1996
Paintings By Peter Walker written by Ingrid Jenkner and has been published by Halifax, N.S. : Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Peter Walker Nicholson And His Works
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Author : Peter Walker Nicholson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Peter Walker Nicholson And His Works written by Peter Walker Nicholson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Artists categories.
Peter Walker And Partners Nasher Sculpture Center Garden
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Author : Jane Amidon
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2006-07-06
Peter Walker And Partners Nasher Sculpture Center Garden written by Jane Amidon and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-06 with Architecture categories.
One of America's leading landscape architects, Peter Walker has created a variety of significant landscapes worldwide, including joint projects with architects I. M. Pei, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. Walker's broad field of practice includes urban design and planning and the creation of landscapes ranging in size from parks and university campuses to corporate headquarters, plazas, and private gardens. Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the center. Peter Walker's informative sketches, drawings, and plans, along with photographs of the final design, reveal the delicate balance between art, culture, and context at the heart of the Nasher Foundation Sculpture Garden. Source Books in Landscape Architecture, produced in collaboration with the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, provide detailed documentation of important new projects.
Peter Walker
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 1990
Peter Walker written by Peter Walker and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
Peter Walker Tanglewood
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Author : Rosanne Somerson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-11-21
Peter Walker Tanglewood written by Rosanne Somerson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Art woodwork categories.
Peter Walker's work is an encounter with the impossible. Haunting objects are crafted so compellingly as to appear as if they have grown out of nature in complex and impossible ways.
Invisible Gardens
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996
Invisible Gardens written by Peter Walker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.
Refining Nature
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Author : Scott Jennings Melbourne
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Refining Nature written by Scott Jennings Melbourne and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with Architecture categories.
Peter Walker is one of the most seminal and prolific figures in contemporary landscape design worldwide – both as a teacher and as practitioner. Among his best-known works are Nasher Garden in Dallas, Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York. This academic review of Walker's unique oeuvre look closely at his design work and provides a comparative analysis.