Explores how gardens are perceived, designed, used, and valued, noting esthetic, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual considerations. The discussions and illustrations of formal, vernacular, and utilitarian gardens from a wide range of cultures and historical periods could be useful as inspiration for garden or landscape design. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place, and Action

Arts & Photography

Francis, Mark

Architecture

Mit Pr

The beauty, resources, and natural processes of the California landscape are brought to the home garden in Mark Francis and Andreas Reimann's fine testament to ecological gardening. The authors connect history, culture, region, and design to help us understand how California and its human population have evolved historically and how individuals today can make a difference in the state's future in their own backyards. The authors' goal is to bring the history of the California garden up to date with the ecological and cultural concerns of our time. Francis and Reimann use California's natural beauty and habitat as a starting point for inspiring Californians to see their gardens as extensions of the surrounding landscape. They provide essential information on native plants and wildlife, ecology and bioregionalism, landscape history and design concepts, as well as numerous examples showing how to integrate environmental principles in one's garden. Landscape meaning and regional thinking are an important part of an ecosystem approach to home gardening, say the authors. By observing nearby native or naturalized environments, including vacant lots and abandoned property, one learns a good deal about local plants, wildlife, and other elements that can be incorporated into an ecologically sensitive garden. Yan Nascimbene's exquisite color illustrations perfectly capture the authors' sensual vision of an environment different from gardens commonly featured in gardening books and magazines. Photographs illustrate the designs of many of the best landscape architects working in the tradition of the California landscape garden, including Ron Lutsko, Topher Delaney, Owen Dell, Ann Christoph, and Rick Fisher. This is a book for anyone seeking a garden philosophy that is environmentally sensitive, and even experienced home gardeners, landscape professionals, and horticulturists will find new and useful material here.

The California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture, and Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Reimann, Andreas

Gardening & Landscape Design

University of California Press

This book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to integrate public space and public life. They contend that three critical human dimensions should guide the process of design and management of public space: the users' essential needs, their spatial rights, and the meanings they seek. To develop and explain these three dimensions, the authors draw on the history of public life and public space, evidence from recent social research, and a series of original case studies, all amply illustrated. Public Space offers an innovative approach for adapting the dimensions to the unique social and environmental context of each project.

Public Space (Environment and Behavior)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Carr, Stephen

Rivlin, Leanne G.

Stone, Andrew M.

Psychology & Counseling

Cambridge University Press

Public Space (Cambridge Series in Environment and Behavior)

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory, the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day, Spencer's works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in their importance to the development of disciplines as wide-ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy, and psychology. Yet during his lifetime―and certainly in the decades that followed―Spencer has been widely misunderstood. Both lauded and disparaged as the father of Social Darwinism (it was Spencer who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"), and as an apologist for individualism and unrestrained capitalism, he was, in fact, none of these; he was instead a subtle and complex thinker.
In his major new intellectual biography of Spencer, Mark Francis uses archival material and contemporary printed sources to create a fascinating portrait of a man who attempted to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological, and sociological forms through a unique philosophical and scientific system that bridged the gap between empiricism and metaphysics. Vastly influential in England and beyond―particularly the United States and Asia―his philosophy was, as Francis shows, systematic and rigorous. Despite the success he found in the realm of ideas, Spencer was an unhappy man. Francis reveals how Spencer felt permanently crippled by the Christian values he had absorbed during childhood, and was incapable of romantic love, as became clear during his relationship with the novelist George Eliot. 
Elegantly written, provocative, and rich in insight, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life is an exceptional work of scholarship that not only dispels the misinformation surrounding Spencer but also illuminates the broader cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Cornell University Press

From his childhood in the 1930s, when he collected Hollywood fan mags and publicity photos, Andy Warhol was obsessed with glamour, style and fashion. After moving to New York in 1949 he soon made his mark in the world of advertising and commercial art, and when he turned to fine art in the 1960s, fashion and commercial imagery continued to pervade his work. This book illustrates the decisive impact of his work on fashion and glamour and how that involvement and the "Warhol Style" have powerfully influenced contemporary art. The book takes us on a grand tour of Warhol's passion for the swank and the chic: the publicity shots of Marilyn Monroe; his fashion drawings of the 1950s; photos of his department store window displays; the "silver factory" works of the 1960s that blurred the lines between avant-garde and popular culture; his explorations of gender identity; and "Interview" magazine and the downtown club scene - epicentres of style and trendsetting.

The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion

Graphic Design

Bulfinch

The most comprehensive published volumes of Warhol's drawings to date features both well-known images; fun, frivolous portraits; and still lifes, covering the artist's life and career from 1942 to 1987.

Andy Warhol: Drawings 1942-1987

Koepplin, Dieter

Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM

WARHOL, Andy.

Individual Artists

Bulfinch Pr

Book by Francis, Mark, Cashdan, Lisa, Paxson, Lynne

Community Open Spaces: Green Neighborhoods Through Community Action And Land Conservation

Cashdan, Lisa

Paxson, Lynne

Island Press

The Village Homes neighbourhood in Davis, California, is one of the long-standing examples of sustainable community design. This work covers research and writing on the community, studies about the children of Village Homes, and interviews with parties involved with the project including designers.

Village Homes: A Community By Design (Landscape Architecture Foundation Land and Community Design Case Study Series)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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