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Exploring the boundaries of landscape architecture
\"What insights can an anthropologist gain from the day-to-day use of parks? How does an economist view the supply and demand of an outdoor space? Why would an architect divide landscape into 'cultural' and 'natural' elements? Experts from around the world give their thoughts on how disciplines outside landscape architecture view the profession. Their insights link together theories from neighbouring areas, giving constructive feedback on the lessons they've gained from work in the environment and their contributions back to the subject\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Latin America
Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions examines the region's historical, social, and political evolution from the colonial era to the modern day. The book traces Latin America's unique trajectory, marked by its early colonial development, the delayed progress of its nation-states post-independence, and the complex interplay between social hierarchies and political structures. The colonial legacy of Iberian rule, characterized by rigid social stratification, concentrated land ownership, and economic dependency, laid a foundation that hindered post-independence progress. Even as independence movements in the 19th century fragmented the region into sovereign states, they failed to dismantle the entrenched colonial social fabric, delaying economic diversification and democratic governance.
The book further explores Latin America's tumultuous political history, highlighting cycles of dictatorship, revolution, and reform. The region's regimes, often modeled after U.S.-style presidential systems, evolved uniquely to address local challenges, balancing the need for centralized authority with efforts to uphold democratic principles. Economic potential, fueled by vast natural resources and growing populations, underscores the region's importance on the global stage. Despite setbacks, including political instability and social inequality, the text emphasizes Latin America's persistent quest for balanced development. It argues that the region's ongoing political experiments, blending elements of democratic and authoritarian governance, could offer valuable insights into the challenges of modern nation-building.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
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Contextual minimalism : landscape architecture and urbanism
Whether emulating the geological formations and dense birch forests of his home state of Minnesota or abstracting agricultural and historical patterns across the Midwest and beyond, Shane Coen is a leading proponent of a new modern American landscape design that features geometric forms, local materials, and a sensitivity to the environment. Coen+Partners pursues \"contextual minimalism\" in both the public and private realms, with projects as diverse as home gardens, a public library, a churchyard, urban parks and civic plazas, and a border land entry station. Shaping local landscapes as well as sites farther afield, in Arizona, California, and Louisiana, and as far away as Singapore and Saudi Arabia, Coen's powerful designs are rooted in place and steeped in connection and calm.
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The great reimagining
While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland's identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland's post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Interviews with politicians, policymakers, community leaders, cultural workers, and residents shed light on the deeply contested nature of seemingly harmonized urban landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.
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The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271–855
This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them.
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The historic urban landscape : managing heritage in an urban century
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs.
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Landscape architecture : an introduction
Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments. After discussing the history of the profession, the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy, human scale, unity, harmony, asymmetry, colour, form and texture. It looks at how design is represented through both drawing and modelling, and through digital techniques such as CAD and the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems). This is followed by an examination of project management and landscape management techniques. Finally, the book explores educational and employment opportunities and the future of the profession in the context of climate change and sustainability. Illustrated with international examples of completed projects, Landscape Architecture provides an invaluable, one-stop resource for anyone considering studying or a career in this field.
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