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The Living Landscape, Second Edition

An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

By: Frederick R. Steiner

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The Living Landscape, Second Edition

An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

By: Frederick R. Steiner

The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals. The Living Landscape offers • a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation • more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities • scores of checklists and step-by-step guides • hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues • coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards • more than 150 illustrations. As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.

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Island Press

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1610910915

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9781610910910

Planning and Urban Design Standards

By: American Planning Association,Frederick R. Steiner,Kent Butler

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Planning and Urban Design Standards

By: American Planning Association,Frederick R. Steiner,Kent Butler

The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design. Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative illustrations and includes the latest rules of thumb for designing and evaluating any land-use scheme--from street plantings to new subdivisions. Students find real help understanding all the practical information on the physical aspects of planning and urban design they are required to know, including: * Plans and plan making * Environmental planning and management * Building types * Transportation * Utilities * Parks and open space, farming, and forestry * Places and districts * Design considerations * Projections and demand analysis * Impact assessment * Mapping * Legal foundations * Growth management preservation, conservation, and reuse * Economic and real estate development Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition provides essential specification and detailing information for various types of plans, environmental factors and hazards, building types, transportation planning, and mapping and GIS. In addition, expert advice guides readers on practical and graphical skills, such as mapping, plan types, and transportation planning.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118550765

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9781118550762

Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

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Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies. In essence, it presents a "how-to" method to transform the urban landscape that is thoroughly informed by theory and practice. The authors note that urban design is viewed as an interface between different disciplines. They describe the field as "peacefully overrun, invaded, and occupied" by city planners, architects, engineers, and landscape architects (with developers and politicians frequently joining in). They suggest that environmental concerns demand the consideration of ecology and sustainability issues in urban design. It is, after all, the urban designer who helps to orchestrate human relationships with other living organisms in the built environment. The overall objective of the book is to reinforce the role of the urban designer as an honest broker and promoter of design processes and as an active agent of social creativity in the production of the public realm.

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325

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Island Press

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1610912268

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9781610912266

Making Plans

How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

By: Frederick R. Steiner

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Making Plans

How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

By: Frederick R. Steiner

“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials.” In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university, growth that inevitably overlapped because of UT’s central location in Austin. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities. Both wise and frank, Making Plans is an important philosophical and practical statement on planning by a leader in the field.

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209

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University of Texas Press

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1477314318

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9781477314319

Human Ecology

Following Nature's Lead

By: Frederick R. Steiner

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Human Ecology

Following Nature's Lead

By: Frederick R. Steiner

In Human Ecology, noted landscape planner Frederick Steiner presents a historical and analytical examination of how humans interact with each other as well as with other organisms and their surroundings.

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Island Press

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1559639954

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9781559639958

Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70

By: Frederick Valletta

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Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70

By: Frederick Valletta

This study examines the relationship between élite and popular beliefs in witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, analyzing such beliefs against the background of political, religious and social upheaval characteristic of the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods. Belief in witchcraft received new impulses because of the general ferment of religious ideas and the tendency of participants in the Civil Wars to resort to imagery drawn from beliefs about the devil and witches; or to use portents to argue for the wrongs of their opponents. Throughout the work, the author stresses that deeply held superstitions were fundamental to belief in witches, the devil, ghosts, apparitions and supernatural healing. Despite the fact that popular superstitions were often condemned, it was recognized that their propaganda value was too useful to ignore. A host of pamphlets and treatises were published during this period which unashamedly incorporated such beliefs. Valletta here explores the manner in which political and religious authorities somewhat cynically used demonic imagery and language to discredit their opponents and to manipulate popular opinion.

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188

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Routledge

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1351872591

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Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose

By: Frederick Chee,Tyrone Fernando

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Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose

By: Frederick Chee,Tyrone Fernando

This book presents closed-loop blood glucose control in a simple manner, which includes the hardware and "software" components that make up the control system. It provides examples on how mathematical models are formulated as well as the control algorithms that stem from mathematical exercises. The book also describes the basic physiology of blood glucose regulation during fasting and meal from a functional level.

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Springer

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3540740317

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Design for a Vulnerable Planet

By: Frederick Steiner

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Design for a Vulnerable Planet

By: Frederick Steiner

We inhabit a vulnerable planet. The devastation caused by natural disasters such as the southern Asian tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, and the earthquakes in China's Sichuan province, Haiti, and Chile—as well as the ongoing depletion and degradation of the world's natural resources caused by a burgeoning human population—have made it clear that "business as usual" is no longer sustainable. We need to find ways to improve how we live on this planet while minimizing our impact on it. Design for a Vulnerable Planet sounds a call for designers and planners to go beyond traditional concepts of sustainability toward innovative new design that fosters regeneration and resilience. Drawing on his own and others' experiences across three continents, Frederick Steiner advocates design practice grounded in ecology and democracy and informed by critical regionalism and reflection. He begins by establishing the foundation for a more ecological approach to planning and design, adopting a broad view of ecology as encompassing human and natural, urban and wild environments. Steiner explores precedents for human ecological design provided by architect Paul Cret, landscape architect Ian McHarg, and developer George Mitchell while discussing their planning for the University of Texas campus, the Lake Austin watershed, and The Woodlands. Steiner then focuses on emerging Texas urbanism and extends his discussion to broader considerations beyond the Lone Star State, including regionalism, urbanism, and landscape in China and Italy. He also examines the lessons to be learned from human and natural disasters such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the BP oil spill. Finally, Steiner offers a blueprint for designing with nature to help heal the planet's vulnerabilities.

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305

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University of Texas Press

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0292773374

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9780292773370

The Living Landscape, Second Edition

An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

By: Frederick R. Steiner

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An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

By: Frederick R. Steiner

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Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

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A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

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1597268291

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Book's by Frederick R. Steiner

The Living Landscape, Second Edition

The Living Landscape, Second Edition

Planning and Urban Design Standards

Planning and Urban Design Standards

Urban Ecological Design

Urban Ecological Design

Making Plans

Making Plans

Human Ecology

Human Ecology

Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70

Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70

Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose

Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose

Design for a Vulnerable Planet

Design for a Vulnerable Planet

The Living Landscape, Second Edition

The Living Landscape, Second Edition

Urban Ecological Design

Urban Ecological Design

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