(Part 2) Best landscape architecture books according to redditors

Déjà il y a ce plan qui est super : http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-paris/index.php?station=Les+Halles&zoom=3

Il y a un livre avec les plans de stations en 3d mais je ne retrouve plus le nom, il faut que je cherche.

edit: https://www.amazon.fr/Mangroves-urbaines-David-MANGIN/dp/2373680238 retrouvé

I really liked the idea of a sense of place being important. Somewhere you belong. Somewhere you can be happy.

I have read quite a bit of nature writing recently and there is a trend of the writer concentrating their efforts on a very small area of land rather than writing something with a title like Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. (still a brilliant book)

In these new books the writers spend considerable time, years even getting to know their local environment intimately and writing about their experiences. There is a real sense that they belong in that area and are happy there.

Of course this is not a new thing. Thoreau probably started it off with Walden. Some modern books I can really recommend are Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Crocker, Common Ground by Rob Cowen, Deep country, five years in the welsh hills by Neil Ansell (a modern day Walden IMHO) and particularly and especially Nature Cure by Richard Mabey who covers his own breakdown, mental health and depression and how walking and the local countryside helped him explicitly in his book. All of these are British writers but I am sure there are similar writers elsewhere. One Man's Wilderness by Dick Proenneke springs to mind. You can see his films on youtube.

My family have lived in the same village in very rural Somerset for hundreds if not thousands of years if some of the explanations of my odd Latin surname is correct. I have not lived there myself for about 12 years now (moving 7 miles away when I got married was a big step) but I still know every last detail about my home. Drop me within five miles and I can find my way around, not just on the roads but on footpaths and across fields and through hedges. My father can tell me a farmer cut down a certain prominent tree and I know exactly which one he means. I do miss my home.

I now live in an area that has been immortalised in a nature study to that level of detail. I live not far from the real location of Watership Down Richard Adams spent his days walking the countryside around his home and if you know what you are looking for in the pages of the book and the countryside you can pinpoint individual trees that the rabbits pass that still stand in the fields today. Some of the events in the book took place about half a mile from our house.

That gives me an idea. Perhaps I will use the book as a guide to my new home as I continue to explore the area.

Where did all that writing come from? ;)

I know this is pricey but this is a textbook that I had to get for a landscape design studio. Lots of great info on exactly what you're talking about. Maybe you can find a used copy or otherwise get ahold of one somewhow.

Constructing Landscape

That is the only one I didn't pass on the first try. Was this the first section of the LARE that you took? It takes some getting use to the way they ask questions. I have a copy of the old Section A practice book, link here (https://www.amazon.com/LARE-Review-Section-Practice-Problems/dp/159126085X) that was a big help. I believe section one is the same as former section A. If you PM me I'd be happy to send it to you. Good luck and don't give up!

Sure! Check out The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Groundswell, & [Modern Landscape Architecture] (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Landscape-Architecture-Critical-Review/dp/0262700514/ref=pd_sim_b_35) for starters.

In short, no. To be clear, what is presented in the article is nifty and already on course to happen (though maybe not in a single integrated package sold by one vendor). Lots of sensors exist in our urban environment to help with all kinds of tasks (ITS already gives preemption to emergency vehicles; buildings already phone fire events into the the fire department).

This may become a tool that planners (or perhaps more likely civil engineers) use, but it's not urban planning. Planning is both lucky and unlucky in that nobody understands what we do. It's very possible to get a masters degree in planning and still not be able to articulate what urban planning is.

In short, planning exists in the realm of informing hard decisions. Lewis Hopkins considers that planning helps best where decisions are:

1. interdependent - the decision cannot be made in isolation from other decisions
   
2. indivisible - the decision cannot be made in increments (for example, you can't generally build 10% of a bridge and get 10% of people across)
   
3. irreversible - you can't simply try different solutions until one works
   
4. facing imperfect foresight - if we know exactly what is going to happen, then you hire an engineer not a planner.
   
   By contrast, Urban OS appears to address a pretty limited set of decisions based on empirical data. That's all well and good, and I generally like models to help inform decisions, but it's still only a small part of planning.

I'd see if your local library has a book like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Design-Bible-Step-step/dp/060063244X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523142576&sr=1-1&keywords=tim+newbury

This will help you start figuring out what you want out of a backyard.

Here's another one:

https://www.amazon.com/Less-More-Garden-Ideas-Designing/dp/1604697911/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523122690&sr=8-4&keywords=small+garden+design

No, I'm not gonna accept such trash.

http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Ward-Richard-Sullivan/dp/146363658X

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Planned-City-World-Designing/dp/1625340060/

http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wrights-Buffalo-Venture/dp/0764962647

Boom, boom, boom. The first three Buffalo-related books sitting right on my bookshelf. This city has a rich, wonderful history. Keep the hating elsewhere.

Thank you.

The featured project really emphasises the advantage to archaeologists and historians in experiencing evidence via VR. Theoretically, the idea of experiencing sites, via "human perception" has been controversial - "too subjective" or "unscientific". But the groundbreaking work of Christopher Tilley: A Phenomenology of Landscape (1994), introducing such concepts into archaeological study, has become more widely accepted.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phenomenology-Landscape-Monuments-Explorations-Anthropology/dp/1859730760

My own project is very much looking at this aspect of archaeological sites, initially, a neolithic site on the south coast of Britain. So it's great to see other works in progress.

Steve LaValle has an interesting book in progress:

http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/vr/

There are a number of theories currently being floated, but I don't think we have a conpletely satisfying answer to your question (which is, I think, the most important question to ask). We assumed, for so long, that the 'Anglo-Saxons' claimed to be Angles and Saxons because they simply were, and we've struggled to adapt our understanding to the realization that these identities (like all 'national' identites) were inventive reimaginings of complicated history rather than the inevitable products of simple migrations of different, discrete people groups.

James Gerrard suggests that, after Roman power broke down in the fifth century, elites began to assume more personal responsibility for fighting off bandits and conteolling violence which, before, had been reserved (mostly) for the Roman army. As a result, elites started displaying weapons and furnishing bands of warriors about themselves - and these war bands were modeled on the 'barbarian' styles that had been popular in the late Roman army itself (the late Roman army dressed as barbarians, named its units after famous barbarian groups, and recruited heavily from barbarians, and so by the fifth century, the line between Roman solider and barbarian had grown very fuzzy). Gerrard's argument gets a bit fuzzy toward the end as he tries to explain why militarization resulted in the adoption of barbarian identities as well as barbarian military clothing and weapon styles, but it boils down to the idea that the old Roman institutions weren't a useful political model anymore, and claiming to be barbarians made more political sense when organizing small kingdoms with warbands at their core.

Toby Martin recently looked at the development of brooch styles in East Anglia, and shows how brooches suggest early connections between Anglia (in Germany) and East Anglia in England. He suggests that the movement of brooches among people in these regions is tied to the movements of other kinds of connections (not just migrations, but also friendships, trade, etc) across this north sea region. Tom Williamson made a similar argument a few years ago about the ease of travel between Anglia and north-east England. This suggests that the Angles were a good neighboring region to claim connections with, and graves like Sutton Hoo (which had a lot of goods from all around the north sea) show that having connections across that body of water were really important in the early seventh century. Claiming to be Roman (or Trojan) might sound very grand, but claiming to be related to the ancestors of important trading partners across the north sea was possibly more useful.

But we might also (and I'm sliding into speculation here) benefit from comparing changes in English identity to events on the continent. Britain might still have claimed to be Roman in the early sixth century (Gildas, a British preacher writing sometime in the first half of the sixth century, thought his people still had some kind of affinity for the Romans across the chanel), but Emperor Justinian's wars in the mid sixth century showed that the Roman empire did not consider the kingdoms ruling the terrorities of the western Roman empire to be legitimate successors to Roman identity: Theoderic may have claimed to be ruling Italy as a representative of the Roman empire, but Justinian saw the Ostrogoths as an enemy to be driven out of Italy. It's not very long after these events that we start to see evidence of the new Germanic identities emerging in England (and there are also changes in how the Franks in formerly Roman Gaul saw themselves in relation to the Roman empire). Perhaps, with the Roman empire flexing its muscles across the channel, it was safer not to base your political identity on anything too closely related to Roman history, and instead choose mythical ancestors who had successfully resisted Roman conquest back when the empire was at its height?

Creo que deberian darle una leída a lo siguiente:

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Esto Por las similitudes de tamaño.

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Esto checate las diagonales

Esto esto es sobre cualidades de la madera

Esto para algo ya muy formal.

I don't have too much experience with Landscape Architecture besides about 6 months interning at a firm, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Books, I honestly don't know "the best"

I did however read these 3

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Elements-Landscape-Architectural-Design/dp/0881334782

http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Landscape-Architecture-01-Design/dp/2940411123

http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Landscape-Architecture-02-Ecological/dp/2940411441/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

They should get you started on Landscape stuff

For general architecture knowledge (if you don't get the other 3 get this one....if you do get the other 3, then get this one too)

http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Francis-D-K-Ching/dp/0471752169/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2


Tips for the first day.

same with any job, do what needs to be done and try to look happy doing it

This. So much.

I also do a lot of work for DOTs and other agencies as part of the NEPA process. While the writing required is no doubt technical at times, it also must be tight and legally defensible, and there's a difference between that and useless jargon and plannerese.

In undergrad Planning in Plain English was required reading for our senior capstone class. It's definitely worth a look through if you want your writing to sound informed and thoughtful (to please your client) and at the same time accessible (to please your intended audience).

This book has great essays from a number of very famous and influential designers: http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Landscape-Architecture-Reader-Studies/dp/0812218213

Also this is a Q&A that gives a better look into an individual process: http://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Cabinet-Curiosities-Search-Position/dp/3037783044

Constructing Landscape Revised, Expanded Edition, by Astrid Zimmermann (Author)

ISBN-13: 978-3035604672

https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Landscape-Astrid-Zimmermann/dp/3035604673

2$ via paypal.

Thank you!

Well he's moving to New Orleans to get his masters in Urban Planning. I went ahead and got this one since it ranges from before the levy's were even built to after Katrina. Thanks for your input though :)

That's a somewhat loose use of the word, but ok. Also, since, like, half the top level posts are asking for clarification about what you're talking about, you may want to improve your original post.

Anyway, this:

>Why does a cave seem to elicit near-identical responses regardless of culture? What cognitive triggers are these designers tripping, and how? Are they doing it deliberately or are they just tapping a rich vein of hard-wired neural responses without understanding how it works?

isn't actually a question about games. It's a question about cultural anthropology or perhaps psychology. Nor is it a given that your assertion that "a cave seem[s] to elicit near-identical responses regardless of culture," is actually true. Perhaps you should begin with a book that looks at it from a cave studies perspective. Caves also occur symbolically in Jungian psychology, but you can probably trace it through a variety of other works, including mythic use (or, more generally, underworlds).

Two great books, full of inspiring maps. Lots of ideas to borrow, that don't need Illustrator.

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A Map of the World

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Cartographic Grounds

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If Professor Reid was there, he was in the MLA program. I was an undergrad, so I did not see him. The professors I can remember were:

Don Austin (the A in EDAW). (design and construction)

Tom Woodfin. There was a geologist who assisted him, and I can't remember his name to save my life. I think his first name was Art. (design and theory)

Ed Hoag (graphics teacher)

Harlow Landphair (mostly construction. He seemed uninterested in drawing and traced off a light table for perspectives)

Michael Murphy https://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Architecture-Theory-Evolving-Thought/dp/1577663578 (design and professional practice)

Nancy Volkman (who has since passed away) (landscape history and interim department head)

John Rodiek (ran the MLA program) (design)

Chang-Shan Huang (who was just getting started in 96) (graphics and design)

and John Motloch who left for Ball State. (design theory and using 50 words to say something that you could state in 5.)

There were others, to be sure, like Rodney Hill and Robert Schiffauer, but those were the core professors that we saw all the time in Hotel Langford.

I've read that book that you mentioned, but it was years after I graduated. It would have been really useful back then.