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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A thorough technical introduction provides guidance to architects and designers exploring vertical gardens, an innovative and ever more popular response to increasing urbanization. CASE STUDIES: Injecting green spaces into cities, providing gardening solutions in limited space, and combating the endless concrete, metal and glass of our cities, vertical gardens comprise an exciting field of landscape architecture. This book features the most exciting...
3) Large parks
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in association with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"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,...