Wilderness By Design
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Wilderness By Design
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Author : Ethan Carr
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Wilderness By Design written by Ethan Carr and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Nature categories.
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Design For A Wilderness
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Author : Phil Drabble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Design For A Wilderness written by Phil Drabble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Natural history categories.
Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49
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Author : Kongjian Yu
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49 written by Kongjian Yu and has been published by Frontiers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Architecture categories.
There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural wilderness, urban wildernesses see similar community structures and often offer similar services, with strong vitality and resilience. However, such natural resources are often misunderstood or overlooked as undesirable places and thus, their great ecological, social, economic, and aesthetic values are ignored. Meanwhile, due to constant changes of global and regional ecological environments, lagged design theories and techniques, and limited aesthetic consciousness, urban plantscapes--the most important producer with provisioning and regulating services for both urban wildernesses and constructed ecosystems--are confronting problems such as poor species and structural diversity, high maintenance requirements, and insufficient ecosystem services. This issue hopes to interpret and display the treasured qualities of urban wildernesses and inspire landscape architects to strike the balance between urban wildernesses and human settlements via ecological planting methods that facilitate natural evolution and ecological flows. Landscape Architecture Frontiers attempts to define an "urban wilderness" and its images, connotations, implications, and resources; explore related techniques to provide full play to its irreplaceable role in providing ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation; and focus on urban re-wilding practices and ecological planting theories, aiming at well integrating urban wildernesses into the naturally constructed urban ecosystem to enhance the city's ecological sustainability and resilience.
Forty Years In The Wilderness
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Author : MIKE. COLES
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Forty Years In The Wilderness written by MIKE. COLES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Building The National Parks
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Author : Linda Flint McClelland
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1998
Building The National Parks written by Linda Flint McClelland and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specializing in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. At its peak in 1944, the number of men and women working in the service totaled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Managing The Matchless Wonders
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Author : Kiki Leigh Rydell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Managing The Matchless Wonders written by Kiki Leigh Rydell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Yellowstone National Park categories.
Urban Wildscapes
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Author : Anna Jorgensen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Urban Wildscapes written by Anna Jorgensen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Architecture categories.
Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban ‘wilderness’ landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned and marginal spaces are frequently overgrown with vegetation and host to a wide range of human activities. They include former industrial sites, landfill, allotments, cemeteries, woods, infrastructural corridors, vacant lots and a whole array of urban wastelands at a variety of different scales. Frequently maligned in the media, these landscapes have recently been re-evaluated and this collection assembles these fresh perspectives in one volume. Combining theory with illustrated examples and case studies, the book demonstrates that urban wildscapes have far greater significance, meaning and utility than is commonly thought, and that an appreciation of their particular qualities can inform a far more sustainable approach to the planning, design and management of the wider urban landscape. The wildscapes under investigation in this book are found in diverse locations throughout the UK, Europe, China and the US. They vary in scale from small sites to entire cities or regions, and from discrete locations to the imaginary wildscapes of children’s literature. Many different themes are addressed including the natural history of wildscapes, their significance as a location for all kinds of playful activity, the wildscape as ‘commons’ and the implications for landscape architectural practice, ranging from planting interventions in wildscapes to the design of the urban public realm on wildscape principles.
White Wilderness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-15
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White Wilderness: The Antarctic Peninsula takes you on a photographic adventure through some of the most magnificent, pristine and raw landscapes on earth. Stunning and mysterious, Rick Burritt's images intimately reveal the Antarctic landscape on a journey from Ushuaia, Argentina, across the churning seas of the Drake Passage to the calm, protected waters of the Antarctic Peninsula. Deception Island, the penguin colonies of Port Lockroy, Gonzalez Videla, Hanna Point and Livingston Island, and the breathtaking Neumeyer and Lemaire Channels are all represented in this beautiful book.
Mission 66
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Author : Ethan Carr
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 2007
Mission 66 written by Ethan Carr and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Landscape design categories.
In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
Wilderness Science In A Time Of Change Conference Wilderness Within The Context Of Larger Systems
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Wilderness Science In A Time Of Change Conference Wilderness Within The Context Of Larger Systems written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Wilderness areas categories.