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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: towards an ecologies design practice -- Part 1 Biological ecologies design and regeneration -- 2 Introduction: a shifting paradigm in ecologically focused design -- 3 Engaging with life: the developmental practice of regenerative development and design -- 4 Designing for living environments using regenerative development: a case study of The Paddock -- 5 The paradox of metrics: setting goals for regenerative design and development -- 6 Ecological design as the biointegration of a set of 'infrastructures': the 'quatrobrid' constructed ecosystem -- 7 Creating and restoring urban ecologies: case studies in China -- 8 Towards wildlife-supportive green space design in metropolitan areas: lessons from an experimental study -- 9 The new design with nature -- 10 Biomimicry: an opportunity for buildings to relate to place -- 11 The emergence of biophilic design and planning: re-envisioning cities and city life -- Part 2 Documenting social ecologies -- 12 Introduction: how to document urban/landscape assemblages -- 13 City boids: diagramming molecular urbanism -- 14 Why would we spend time drawing with people doing their washing in a Chinese village? -- 15 Object-led interview: documenting geographical ideas -- 16 Mapping informal settlements: a process for action -- 17 Ethnographic drawings and the benefits of using a sketchbook for fieldwork -- 18 A landscape anthropology of green in Bahrain -- 19 Valparaiso Publico: a graphic inventory of urban spaces in a Chilean city -- 20 Being with Hellersdorf: performative counter-mapping as a reflexive practice between architecture and anthropology -- 21 The happy city: an actor-network-theory manifesto.

This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment. It starts by discussing the collisions between architecture and geography, humanity, as well as other architectures and reflects on the ancient Chinese notion of emotional relief and expression through natural landscape. It then studies important transportation and scenic routes, like pavilions, towers, clan halls and villages within architectural systems. It also discusses the forms of geographic integration and isolation expressed through architecture, which reflects their historical and cultural context. This book is the first of a 4-volume book series. The series develops the innovative concept of "geo-architecture" by exploring the myriad influences of natural, human and historical factors upon architecture. These influences are considered in three categories, namely, interaction between architecture and nature, interaction between architecture and its human users and change in architecture over time--each category serves as a lens. Augmenting these lenses is the Time-Person-Place concept applied different geographic. The analysis ultimately focuses on two aspects: geographic influence on architecture and architectural response to geography. The over 1000 pictures of case architectures enriches the study with stunning and unique visual angles. "This unprecedented work will be a unique and valuable contribution to the literature. Integrating as it does the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and geography, Wang Fang's voice is original, compelling, and will be much appreciated by English-speaking readers (and inside China, too, I can only imagine.)" Stephen M Ervin Assistant Dean Graduate School of Design, Harvard University July 2nd, 2013 "One reason for why there would be interest is because her research would fill some significant gaps in the literature. What is novel about Dr. Wang's series is that she further extends this intellectual project of looking at Chinese architecture through Chinese eyes, by taking it one provocative step further." Annette M. Kim Associate Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning, M.I.T. July 1st, 2013

From Ratzel to Hitler: Biographical Influences, Geopolitics, and Cultural Landscape -- Veins of the Nation: The Nazi Autobahn as Geopolitical Propaganda Device -- From Sports Park to Sacred Grove: Embedding the Mass Spectacle in the German Landscape -- "Secret Societies Established in Broad Daylight": Symbolic Fortifications as Nazi Institutional Sites -- Venerating the Blood-Soaked Soil: Monumentalized Landscapes as Memorials.

Todd Saunders (1969) is one of the most important young contemporary Canadian architects working internationally. His architecture, simple yet powerful, incorporates elements of his country's architectural identity - including the use of wood and carefully picked Modernist influences - bringing it at the same time into the 21st century with excellent execution, carefully chosen materials and a hands-on approach. Saunders (he lives and works in Bergen, Norway) has successfully executed work in both Canada, Norway, and Finland, creating architecture with a strong sense of northern identity.

Swedes are living increasingly longer lives, but the number of years lived in good health is decreasing. The present doctoral dissertation is focused on the threat to Swedish public health that is constituted by aches and pain and various types of mental illnesses, of which fatigue reactions, often called "burnout syndromes," are increasing most rapidly. Besides the personal suffering involved, the costs of increased ill health constitute a threat to the welfare of Swedish society. According to the Swedish government, good health has become a resource – perhaps even the country's most important resource for sustainable development. Today, several scientific disciplines consider health to be a positive and holistic state encompassing the individual's entire life situation: biological, cultural, social and not least environmental aspects. With the Swedish Parliament's adoption of the public health bill Public Health Objectives, public health work in Sweden is to be based on the idea of finding different societal factors that promote good health on equal terms for the entire population. The present doctoral dissertation focuses on a health factor represented by different types of natural environments. The dissertation is based on two studies of two different types of health-promoting natural environments: Healing gardens – Improvement of ill health Urban green spaces – Maintenance and fortification of good health Healing gardens are gardens that are purposely designed to promote health among a certain group of patients. The dissertation focuses on the type of healing garden that is specially intended for patients suffering from fatigue reactions or burnout syndromes. Interest in healing gardens is spreading rapidly throughout the world. However, both in Sweden and in other countries, "healing gardens" are being laid out that do not actually possess health-promoting qualities. In order for health to actually be improved, purposeful design based on the patient group's special needs is required. There is a great need for scientific knowledge concerning how these gardens should be designed. For a long time past in our history, the importance of city greenery for city dwellers' health and wellbeing has been pointed out. In the present dissertation, urban green spaces – i.e. greenery in the city such as parks, green areas, schoolyards and gardens belonging to a house – are viewed as healthpromoting elements of city planning. Interest in how urban green spaces can maintain and fortify human health is spreading among scientists, architects, politicians and the public. Despite this interest, the problem remains of how urban green spaces should be planned and designed so as to attract the urban population. The dissertation has an applied perspective and is aimed at both scientists and practitioners. It presents findings from two different studies, one on how healing gardens may be designed for people with burnout syndromes and the other on how urban green spaces may be planned from a health-promoting perspective. The overall purpose is, thus, that the dissertation should contribute to the evidence-based design and planning of health-promoting outdoor environments.

" The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designers who saw in the next generation promise that appeared to answer the most pressing worries of the age. Designing the Creative Child reveals how a postwar cult of childhood creativity developed and continues to this day. Exploring how the idea of children as imaginative and naturally creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II, Amy F. Ogata argues that educational toys, playgrounds, small middle-class houses, new schools, and children's museums were designed to cultivate imagination in a growing cohort of baby boom children. Enthusiasm for encouraging creativity in children countered Cold War fears of failing competitiveness and the postwar critique of social conformity, making creativity an emblem of national revitalization.

prepared by Lie Ning Gung. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Introduction ; Chapter Book I --- Hypothesis ; Chapter --- --- Genesis of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- Esthetics of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- A Living Being ; Chapter --- --- On Architecture ; Chapter Book II --- Concepts ; Chapter --- --- Dynamics ; Chapter --- --- Action ; Chapter --- --- Experience ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter Book III --- Trials ; Chapter --- --- Conceptual Model ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- Study Model ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- The Project ; Chapter --- --- Epilogue ; Appendices ; Chapter I- --- Project Background ; Chapter --- --- Social & Political Context --- p.1-4 ; Chapter --- --- Historical & Cultural Context --- p.5-7 ; Chapter --- --- The Issue --- p.8-9 ; Chapter --- --- The Proposal --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Client Profile --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Mission --- p.12-13 ; Chapter II- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- History --- p.1-2 ; Chapter --- --- Land Use --- p.3 ; Chapter --- --- Circulation Studies --- p.4-8 ; Chapter --- --- Site Features --- p.9 ; Chapter --- --- Topology --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Site Constrains --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Potential & Cost --- p.12 ; Chapter --- --- Goals & PR --- p.13-18 ; Chapter III- --- Precedents studies ; Chapter IV- --- Interviews ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography

Cover -- Imprint -- Content -- Hubertus Fischer, Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Introduction -- Hubertus Fischer, Gerd Michelsen, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Environmental Policy and Landscape Architecture -- Gabriel Motzkin: Being Afraid of the Environment -- Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Mentalities, Environmental Protection and Religion - Some Historical Remarks -- Gerd Michelsen: (Higher) Education for Sustainable Development -- Ulrich Witte: Communication and Participation in Landscaping -- Armin Grunwald: Sustainable Development and Landscape Architecture: Uncertainties,Reflexive Planning, and Co-Evolution of Landscapes and their Human Use -- Tal Alon-Mozes: Environmentalism in Israel and the Emergence of Ariel Sharon Parkin Tel Aviv -- Kaspar Klaffke: Landscape Architecture and Environmental Policy. Striking a Balance between Singularity and Internationality in Urban Green Space Policy - Hannover as an Example -- Adeeb Daoud Naccache: Revealing the Rural Landscape within the Urban Fabric: The Case of Nazareth -- Arza Churchman: The Importance of Public Space for People of Varied Characteristics, Needs and Preferences -- Kenneth Helphand: Tayelet -- Christiane Sörensen: Topographic Thinking and Designing -- Oren Yiftachel: From Sharon to Sharon: Spatial Planning and Separation Regime in Israel/Palestine -- Rassem Khamaisi: Landscape Architecture between Legislation and Tradition -- Noga Kadman: Erased and Marginalized from Space and Consciousness: Depopulated Palestinian Villages in Israeli Tourism and Recretation Sites -- Karsten Jørgensen, Ramzi Hassan: Capacity Building in Landscape Architecture in Palestine -- James L. Wescoat Jr.: Water-conserving Design in the Landscapes of Abraham

Veränderung im Lauf der Zeit ist eine spezifische Kategorie der Landschaftsarchitektur bei ihrer Arbeit mit Freiräumen und organischen Materialien: Nachhaltigkeit, Identität, die Bewahrung und Entwicklung unserer natürlichen Umwelt und unseres gebauten Wohnumfeldes werden in und durch zeitliche Prozesse gestaltet. Was bedeutet dies für die konkrete Umsetzung in landschaftsarchitektonischen Konzepten und aktuellen Projekten? In Essays, Interviews und Darstellungen der besten realisierten Projekte aus den letzten Jahren nimmt "Zeiträume" eine Ortsbestimmung der Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Leistungen der Landschaftsarchitektur vor. Das Buch erscheint anlässlich der Verleihung des Deutschen Landschaftsarchitektur-Preises im Jahr des 100-jährigen Bestehens des Bundes Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten und des internationalen Symposiums "Stadt und Landschaft - Zukunftsszenarien" im September 2013

Book of abstracts of the International Conference on Architectural Research, Bucharest, 18-20 May 2012. ; This paper proposes an objective methodology to allow architectural analysis incorporating, or embedding creatively, the signals of a blossoming sensibility towards landscape, while rehearsing a parallel interpretative and critical analysis of the most recent architectural forms of expression. It is based on a simple set of descriptive (non-exhaustive) characteristics - that are commonly found in recent representative (or major) architectonic masterpieces, but also in some particular or more exquisite examples -, and allows double crossing, facilitating an easy and understandable interpretative grid. The purpose is all about setting a challenging reference to landscape, for a refreshed and stimulating critical sense over all architectonic reviews. We also seek to promote the development of discontented spirits in relation to disciplinary forms of architectural practice, while being part of a teaching method, or a mean to transform simple aspiring architects into active agents, committed or compromised with the conception of better landscaped architectures and friendly environments. There is no longer time to ignore or hide the pressure induced by the complex framework of territorial, cultural and social demands, under any type of formal reduction. The present condition requires from future professionals, involved in the reshaping of existing architectures into future spatial environments, much more than common projects or easy urban designs, demanding a committed architecture that progressively reinvents and strengthens the connections with a neighbouring-landscape, constantly improved. It's also important to remember that all architectures are new architectures, always, even when they deal with subjects like urban renewal or buildings refurbishment, or even when they reuse historical sites and emotional collective memories. All occidental architecture is, somehow, the rewriting of André Corboz's palimpsest, if we want to look at it, and understand it, like a landscape object or a neighbouring landscape. Indeed, neighbouring landscape, as a real landscape of proximity, is not only about social integration or desirable multicultural city, but the mode conception and designs or projects can enable a comprehensive recognition of dreams and aspirations recombined, as a reflect of local societies committed to their landscapes, out in their own places and time, and looking at the future of urban and environmental condition with the same optimism. In an indirect way this paper also addresses some emerging problems, such as the new type of citizen's movements that start to participate in the government of cities and in decision support, under the pressure of the media and other queries on-going about urban democracy, questioning urban development and other related city forms and regeneration designs. Advantages may be as promising as risks if one doesn't establish very effective dialogue conditions to mediate, in real time, the inevitable tension due to divergences that always anticipate collective consensus. Free participation, that is usually quite poorly informed cultural and technically, may constrain or even prevent city's governments of that desirable experimental and exploratory capacity that urban forms have always revealed, through a strong palimpsest, inhibiting all effective developing capacities and quick progressive jumps.