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Featuring more than 290 full-colour photographs and 40 full-colour illustrations, "Landscaping with Stone" provides readers with everything they need to know about stonescaping--including how to incorporate stone into a garden design, choosing the right kind of stone and finding inspiration for your design. It also includes expert advice on basic stone-working techniques--from transporting to cutting and setting--as well as step-by-step instructions...
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“The Midwest Gardener's Book of Lists” is a definitive guide for gardeners in one of the biggest gardening areas in the country. The many subjects listed in this useful guide include plants that complement architecture, can withstand drought, do well in various soil types, bloom for weeks, and both attract and repel wildlife.
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Tessa Young is a landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths. For years she has immersed herself in the healing aspects of these elaborate structures, searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. When Smith Chandler, a colleague who once betrayed her, offers an opportunity to reconstruct a remarkable Colonial-era labyrinth, she can't resist this project of a lifetime....
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The secret is out! This is the book that will teach you why some lawns and landscapes that are done by professionals, look so beautiful and crisp. There are 7 secrets that you need to know which are all shared in this book with no filler. Also, there are many tips on who and what to watch out for and how to stay on the safe side if you still rather hire a professional to make your landscape groomed and beautiful.
If you choose to do it yourself, this...
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If you live on a flood plain or wetland, you know the potential dangers-to you, your family, and your home. A major flood could strike at any time and you need to be prepared. But of even more immediate concern is the tiresome battle to keep your property free of minor floods and water seepage, which can be just as destructive-and costly-as a major flood. This all-purpose book guides you through the range of options you have to protect your property....
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This book features a wide range of backyards from Kiwi heroes Kieran Read, Richie and Gemma McCaw, Sir Graham Henry, Wayne Smith, Wyatt Crockett, Sir Richard Hadlee, Izzy Dagg, George and Kayla Whitelock, Jason Gunn, Razor Robertson, Dan Carter's folks, Al Brown, Matt Watson, and Jason Kerrison. With themes including the inner-city sanctuary, the native haven, the Kiwi kid's playground, and the entertainer's utopia, there's something for everyone...
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A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style featuring cottage gardens from around the country. Features gardens created by famous writers including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter. A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style. The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life. But it has found new expressions from the Arts & Crafts movement to the...
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Este viaje por lugares extremos en América Latina empieza en México, a la sombra de una inmensa barriada de viviendas sociales de la década de 1960, cuando las colmenas de pisos baratos parecían la solución a la escasez de vivienda. Sigue visitando las villas miseria de Buenos Aires, los cerros de Caracas, las favelas de Río, las casas ampliables de Chile, las laderas de Medellín ahora salvadas por el Metrocable y diversas iniciativas de vivienda...
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Over the past 600 years, European colonial expansion and resource extraction has reshaped the globe, displacing and marginalizing myriads of people. Kerb 26 aims to shine a light on landscape architecture's complicity in these global conditions and the prospects of those affected by the Western cultural and economic forces.
Landscape architecture is a discipline produced by Western power structures and modes of authority over space. But, by engaging...
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As the title suggests, this book covers steps to make it simpler for a home gardener to successfully grow the vegetables they can enjoy. Starting with soil preparation and understanding of pH value of the soil, fertilizing, methods of mulching, cultivating, and watering will provide the steps to have that perfect growing condition.
Then off to getting ready to plant your vegetables that will consist of planting methods, tools, and preparing for pest...
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Originating as a RMIT university pamphlet in 1989 for the purpose of discussing landscape architecture. The journal now boasts a diverse selection of contributors, focusing on contemporary landscape architecture themes. The journal is edited by a group of students, who select the articles pertinent of each edition. Kerb seeks to set the agenda for designers and architects, establishing a platform for new ideas and contemporary design theory. Kerb...
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Complete step-by-step instructions help you achieve a sustainable, efficient, and attractive yard. The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Landscape Projects is a hardworking, comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and "greening up" your landscape. Inside, you'll find complete directions for time-tested landscape building projects as well as new environmentally sustainable projects. From designing your landscape to putting the finishing touches...
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Learn how to make a Californian home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping, 4th Edition. This must-have resource is an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping California-style. The 48 featured landscape designs are created by professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in California's climate. Detailed instructions for projects, such as paths, patios,...
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The Pacific Northwest will be in full bloom with Northwest Home Landscaping, 4th Edition! Find inspiring ideas to make your home landscape more attractive and functional in this must-have resource that is an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping northwest-style. The 48 featured landscape designs are created by professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the northwest. Detailed...
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Interest in the environment has never been greater, yet how much do each of us understand and engage with it? Geography and geology feel like forgotten schoolroom lessons, and most of us admire the landscape without guessing at the many visible clues to the 4 billion years of history that formed it.
How to Read the Landscape will change the way you look at the world, by presenting a visual vocabulary with which to understand the land beneath your...
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La ciudad contemporánea es una criatura incierta. Su condición de amalgama de variables sociales y económicas, culturales y políticas, temporales y espaciales, la convierte en un hojaldre múltiple difícil de aprehender. Infinidad de teorías e historias llevan décadas intentándolo, de lo que ha derivado un corpus doctrinario igualmente vasto y complejo. El objetivo de este libro es descifrar dicho corpus.
Como la ciudad no puede abarcarse...
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El andar es un acto cognitivo y creativo capaz de transformar simbólica y físicamente tanto el espacio natural como el antrópico. Este libro narra una historia de la percepción del paisaje a través del acto de caminar: del nomadismo primitivo a las vanguardias artísticas de principios siglo XX, de la Internacional Letrista a la Internacional Situacionista, del minimalismo al land art, Francesco Careri repasa algunas de las propuestas históricas...
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La historia del jardín ha estado tradicionalmente marcada por un discurso basado en el orden visual y el control que ejerce el hombre sobre las especies vegetales. En este célebre ensayo, Gilles Clément se aleja de forma radical de este enfoque y aporta una de las reflexiones contemporáneas sobre el paisaje y los jardines más interesantes de la disciplina.
El jardín en movimiento sostiene que los jardines y el paisaje no son espacios estáticos...
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Publicado originariamente en francés en 2004, Manifiesto del Tercer paisaje se ha convertido en uno de los textos clave para entender el paisajismo contemporáneo. Gilles Clément vuelca en él un programa para el Tercer paisaje, aquel que aparece en las cunetas de las carreteras, en los lugares residuales de las ciudades, en los espacios de transición entre la ciudad y el campo que no han sido controlados por la acción deliberada del hombre. Es...
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En su anterior libro Walkscapes. El caminar como práctica estética, Francesco Careri eleva a la categoría de arte el acto de caminar. En sus páginas nos descubre el andar como un instrumento cognitivo y creativo capaz de transformar simbólica y físicamente el espacio, un estudio que, con los años, ha acabado convirtiéndose en un clásico de la bibliografía sobre el caminar.
Como continuación de este libro, Pasear, detenerse da un paso más...
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