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  • The Politics of Street Trees

    Edited by Jan Woudstra, Camilla Allen ...
    This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict.The work first provides ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape

    Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones

    Edited by Jan Woudstra, Xiang Ren ...
    The architect, historian and critic Peter Blundell Jones (1949–2016) considered architecture as an expansive field within the arts and humanities and social sciences that included landscape and urban studies. His focus within this built environment was firmly on people and place, which to him meant developing a comprehension of the broad human, material and social engagements with specific ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Teaching Landscape History

    Edited by Jan Woudstra, David Jacques, Robert Holden ...
    Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects.Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Regeneration of Public Parks

    Edited by Ken Fieldhouse, Jan Woudstra ...
    The Urban Parks Programme, financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has sparked a new enthusiasm for the regeneration of Britain's parks. This unique reference book gives a valuable overview of all the elements of public park design. It emphasizes our parks' diversity and richness, and offers practical guidance as to their renovation and future care. It is essential reading for all those involved in ... Read more

    $182.75 CAD

  • A History of Groves

    Edited by Jan Woudstra, Colin Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    The grove, a grouping of trees, intentionally cultivated or found growing wild, has a long diverse history entwined with human settlement, rural practices and the culture and politics of cities. A grove can be a memorial, a place of learning, a site of poetic retreat and philosophy or political encampment, a public park or theatre, a place of hidden pleasures, a symbol of a vanished forest ecology ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Landscape Modernism Renounced

    The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979)

    by David Jacques, Jan Woudstra ...
    Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save the city, becoming an acclaimed author sympathetic to preservation.Ironically it was the Modernist ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Is Landscape... ?

    Essays on the Identity of Landscape

    Edited by Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim ...
    Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both ... Read more

    $131.91 CAD

  • The Rational Optimist

    How Prosperity Evolves

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven PinkerIn a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Frank Trentmann ...
    The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hungry City

    How Food Shapes Our Lives

    by Carolyn Steel ...
    'Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources’.The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.Hungry City examines the way in which ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

    by Joan Baxter ...
    For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD