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Landscape and Community

Books on: landscape and community

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Ecology, Community, and Delight: Sources of Values in Landscape Architecture

Book by Ian H. Thompson; E & FN Spon, 2000

Subjects:

Environment (Aesthetics), Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture--Philosophy, Landscape Assessment

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis: Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three ...
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Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis: Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice, the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future.
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Landscape Painting

Book by Kenneth Clark; Charles Scribners Sons, 1950

Subjects:

Landscape Painting

Collections: Entire Library

...give some answers if we are to understand the beginnings of landscape painting. To some extent they were the outcome of mediaeval...to-day agricultural labourers are almost the only class of the community who are not enthusiastic about natural beauty ; the sea coast...
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Landscape, Portrait, Still-Life: Their Origin and Development

Book by Max J. Friedländer, R. F. C. Hull; Schocken Books, 1963

Subjects:

Landscape Painting, Portrait Painting, Still-Life Painting

Collections: Entire Library

LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT STILL-LIFE By courtesy of the Earl of Radnor...painter, was a mulatto and the slave of Velasquez p. 251 LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT STILL-LIFE Their Origin and Development...FOREWORD 9 LANDSCAPE The Idiosyncrasy of Landscape...
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Landscape: Pattern, Perception, and Process

Book by Simon Bell; Spon Press, 1999

Subjects:

Ecological Landscape Design, Landscape Assessment, Regional Planning--Environmental Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

A fresh approach to the theory of design, this book will synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can go. This heavily illustrated book links current theory with case studies from the US, Canada, Europe and Australasia.
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The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914

Book by Michael Reed; Routledge, 1997

Subjects:

Great Britain--Historical Geography, Land Use--Great Britain--History, Landscape--Great Britain--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

In The Landscape of Britain, Michael Reed explains the forces at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past examines the endless processes of accretion which have created the urban and rural landscapes as today's inhabitants have inherited them ...
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In The Landscape of Britain, Michael Reed explains the forces at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past examines the endless processes of accretion which have created the urban and rural landscapes as today's inhabitants have inherited them, showing how each generation makes its own individual contribution without being able entirely to erase those of its predecessors, however remote or distant in time.
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Journal Articles on: landscape and community

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Compelling Ties: Landscape, Community, and Sense of Place

Journal article by Vicky Newman; PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 70, 1995

Subjects:

Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Compelling Ties: Landscape, Community, and Sense of Place Vicky...process links autobiography with landscape, community, and place by revealing how...the compelling ties between landscape, community, and sense of place. Community...
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David N. Keightley. the Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China (Ca. 1200-1045 BC)

Journal article by John S. Major; China Review International, Vol. 9, 2002

Subjects:

The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China, ca. 1200-1045 BC (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...Keightley. the Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China...The Ancestral Landscape is an admirable addition...Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China...interesting. The Ancestral Landscape deserves to find...
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America's Communities Movement: Investing in the Civic Landscape

Journal article by Tyler Norris; American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 29, 2001

Subjects:

Civic leaders--Management, Coalition (Social sciences)--Evaluation, Community organization--Evaluation, Health care coalitions--Management, Social action--Evaluation

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...movement: Investing in the Civic landscape. by Tyler Norris...Lovable" precede the word "Community" in the name of hundreds of...foundation upon which a healthier community is built. This is the practice...an investment in the civic landscape. Table I. Design Principles...
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Nurturing Nature and Cinematic Experience: The American Landscape and the Rural Female Community

Journal article by Anna Dempsey; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 23, 2005

Subjects:

Bagdad Cafe (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Daughters of the Dust (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Places in the Heart (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, The Spitfire Grill (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Western films--Criticism and interpretation, Western films--History, Western movies--Criticism and interpretation, Western movies--History

Collections: Entire Library

...The American Landscape and the Rural Female Community. by Anna...is part of a community--including the...own cinematic landscape outside the...K. R. 2001. Landscape as a Contested Topos of Place, Community, and Self. In...
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Tukipa Ceremonial Centers in the Community of Tuapurie (Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlan): Cargo Systems, Landscape, and Cosmovision

Journal article by Johannes Neurath; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000

Subjects:

Archaeology--Research, Huichols--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Mexican native peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native Americans (Mexico)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Social structure--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Centers in the Community of Tuapurie (Santa...Cargo Systems, Landscape, and Cosmovision...cosmovision, and ritual landscape.(2) These interrelations...geography of the community are places of deified...exists in this community. (2.) In the...remain tied to the landscape (Broda 1993, 1994...

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Magazine Articles on: landscape and community

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Community Landscape

Magazine article; School Arts, Vol. 97, January 1998

Subjects:

Arts and society--Case studies, Arts education--Case studies, Children's art--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Community landscape Amongst the hills of Tennessee...learned how to care for it. They drew up landscape plans for floral vegetation and outdoor...served as a means to assist the Hilham community in appreciating the natural environment...
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The R & D Future of Intelligence; the U.S. Intelligence Community Faces a Changing Landscape. Here Is a Blueprint for How It Can Best Harness the Potential of Technology. One Key: Foster Risk-Taking

Magazine article by Bruce Berkowitz; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 24, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Industrial research--Military aspects, Industrial research--Political aspects, Industrial research--United States, Intelligence service--Research, National security--Methods, National security--Technology application, Technological innovations--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Intelligence; the U.S. Intelligence Community Faces a Changing Landscape. Here Is a Blueprint for How...changing. When the intelligence community was established, most R...keep its technology edge. Landscape of intelligence To better...
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Secondary Form: Honed to Respond to Intense Catalonian Light and to a Rural Landscape, This School Fosters the Development of Individuals into Being Adult Members of a Community

Magazine article by John Anstruther; The Architectural Review, Vol. 213, February 2003

Subjects:

Catalonia, Spain--Buildings, facilities, etc., School buildings--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...Catalonian light and to a rural landscape, this school fosters the development...into being adult members of a community. by John Anstruther...focus areas in which the whole community can come together. In arranging...school is a quiet focus of community. RELATED ARTICLE Architect...
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Turning Renewables into a Reality: Orkney, Lying off the North Coast of Scotland, Is Blessed with Some of the Best Renewable Resources in the World and the Local Community Is Aiming to Use This Advantage to Secure Its Own Future Prosperity While Protecting the Unique Landscape and Environmental Features That Make the Islands So Special

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 75, August 2003

Subjects:

Orkney

Collections: Entire Library

...world and the local community is aiming to use this...protecting the unique landscape and environmental features...workshops on key issues; a community renewables event focussing...but if your favourite landscape is altered, that argument...However, the protection of landscapes will be vital, especially...
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The American View of Landscape

Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 18, April 2000

Subjects:

Central Park, New York, New York--Social aspects, Hudson River school of landscape painting--Management, Landscape--Social aspects, Suburbs--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...The habit of looking at the landscape in human terms was deeply...institutions and the weakness of community. Convinced of the almost mystic...automobile has ravaged the landscape, claiming enormous acres of...veranda was calculated. But a community form based on the pedestrian...

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Newspaper Articles on: landscape and community

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Wasteland Will Bloom at Last; COMMUNITY PROJECT: Pounds 250,000 Facelift for Green Space

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 10, 2006

Subjects:

Community development

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Wasteland Will Bloom at Last; COMMUNITY PROJECT: Pounds 250,000 Facelift for Green Space. Byline...with the help of residents and children from nearby schools. Landscape architect Liane Kavanagh said it would grow into a blaze of...
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Inspector to Hear Appeals; Developers Fight for 'Community Site'

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), December 28, 2007

Subjects:

Community development--Protection and preservation

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...takes place next month over the proposals for a nursery and community centre on land on the north side of Blair Avenue in Ingleby...recommended the scheme be approved, stating the concerns of a landscape architect had been largely met by the latest drawings and...
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Aim Is Community with Wellbeing; Commercial Property

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 16, 2008

Subjects:

Commercial buildings, Community development

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...work there. "What we are aiming for is a truly sustainable community that balances a wide choice of housing alongside a wide range...specialists in executive planning, planning policy, transport, landscape design, urban design and architecture, health, commercial...
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Garden Club to Create New Landscape

Newspaper article; Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Garden Club to Create New Landscape. Byline: BETSY WILLIAMS...vote is in for this years community project for the Rotonda Garden...another possibility. This community project is just one of the...Meetings are held at the Rotonda Community Center. The ladies have...
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A Design for All Seasons A Year-Round Sun City Offered the Challenge to Design a Landscape That Stayed Beautifulspring through Winter. del Webb Corp. Met the Challenge and Even Took Home an Award for Its Efforts

Newspaper article by Sally Macdowell; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 7, 2000

Subjects:

Del Webb Corp., Hotels and motels

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...imported from neighboring nurseries and planted throughout the community for shade and color. Notice, too, the way the design uses...the prairie. One of the most distinctive aspects of the landscape is the use of rock formations native to Illinois. You see...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: landscape and community

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Wright, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

WRIGHT, HENRY 1878 1936, American landscape architect and community planner, b. Lawrence, Kans., studied architecture at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He was widely recognized as a leader in the movement...
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Koetsu Hon'Ami

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1637, Japanese artist, poet, calligrapher, tea master, and landscape gardener. Considered one of the greatest and most influential...bowls of a thin, delicate nature. He also founded an artistic community at Takagamine that produced countless objects of great beauty...
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Wright, Frank Lloyd

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...projecting eaves that echoed the rhythms of the surrounding landscape; it was termed his prairie style. The most famous examples...Wis. The latter was later reconceived as the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center and opened in 1997. Writings and Bibliography...
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Mississippi , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Abbr., Miss.; MS Geography Mississippis generally hilly landscape reaches its highest point (806 ft/246 m) in the northeastern...soldiers, had made the Natchez district a thriving agricultural community, producing tobacco and indigo, by the time Bernardo de Galvez...
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Dutch Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...brandy, cole slaw, cookie, cruiser, dock, easel, freight, landscape, spook, stoop, and yacht. Dutch is noteworthy as the language...comparatively few in number, made their mark on the world community through trade and empire. See C. B. van Haeringen, Netherlandic...

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