American Home Landscapes
Title | American Home Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Wiles Adams |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1604690402 |
While there’s no shortage of information on restoring and maintaining the historical integrity of period homes, until now there has been no authoritative reference that provides comparable information for landscapes. American Home Landscapes is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to recreating nearly 400 years of historical landscape design and adapting them to modern needs. You will first learn how to research design elements for a particular property. Each of the following chapters focuses on the design characteristics of six well-defined historical periods, beginning with the Colonial period and ending with the last decades of the twentieth century. Each section features the most prominent landscape features of each era, such as paths, driveways, fences, hedges, seating, and accessories. Extensive bibliographic resources and historically accurate plant lists round out the text. Whether the goal is to create a meticulously accurate period landscape or simply to evoke the look of a bygone era, you’ll find the tools you need in American Home Landscapes.
Home Ground
Title | Home Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Lopez |
Publisher | Trinity University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2011-04-14 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1595340882 |
Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.
Designing America's Waste Landscapes
Title | Designing America's Waste Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Mira Engler |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2004-05-31 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780801878039 |
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The New American Landscape
Title | The New American Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Christopher |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-04-20 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1604691867 |
Gardeners are the front line of defense in our struggle to tackle the problems of global warming, loss of habitat, water shortages, and shrinking biodiversity. In The New American Landscape, author and editor Thomas Christopher brings together the best thinkers on the topic of gardening sustainably, and asks them to describe the future of the sustainable landscape. The discussion unfolds from there, and what results is a collective vision as eloquent as it is diverse. The New American Landscape offers designers a roadmap to a beautiful garden that improves, not degrades the environment. It’s a provocative manifesto about the important role gardens play in creating a more sustainable future that no professional garden designer can afford to miss. John Greenlee and Neil Diboll on the new American meadow garden Rick Darke on balancing natives and exotics in the garden Doug Tallamy on landscapes that welcome wildlife Eric Toensmeier on the sustainable edible garden David Wolfe on gardening sustainable with a changing climate Elaine Ingham on managing soil health David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth on sustainable pest solutions Ed Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre on green roofs in the sustainable residential landscape Thomas Christopher on waterwise gardens Toby Hemenway on whole system garden design The Sustainable Site Initiative on the managing the home landscape as a sustainable site
American Landscapes
Title | American Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
Outside the Not So Big House
Title | Outside the Not So Big House PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Moir Messervy |
Publisher | Taunton Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1600850200 |
... how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony.
Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America
Title | Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold R. Alanen |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2000-04-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Historic preservation efforts began with an emphasis on buildings, especially those associated with significant individuals, places or events. Subsequent efforts were expanded to include vernacular architecture, but only in recent decades have preservationists begun shifting focus to the land itself. Cultural landscapes - such as farms, gardens, and urban parks - are now seen as projects worthy of the preservationist's attention.