Revising green infrastructure : concepts between nature and design /: concepts between nature and design. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Czechowski, Thomas Hauck, and Georg Hausladen.
• Editors: Czechowski, Daniel
• Contents: Function and Process; Green Functionalism: A Brief Sketch of Its History and Ideas in the United States and Germany, Thomas Hauck and Daniel Czechowski; Carefully Radical or Radically Careful? Ecology as Design Motif, Greet De Block; The City That Never Was: Engaging Speculative Urbanization through the Logics of Landscape, Christopher Marcinkoski; Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design, Daniela Perrotti; Landscape Machines: Designerly Concept and Framework for an Evolving Discourse on Living System Design, Paul A. Roncken, Sven Stremke, and Riccardo Maria Pulselli; Problems of the Odumian Theory of Ecosystems, Georg Hausladen; ; Culture and Specificity; The Garden and the Machine, Thomas Juel Clemmensen; Infrastructure Design as a Catalyst for Landscape Transformation: Research by Design on the Structuring Potential of Regional Public Transport, Matthias Blondia and Erik De Deyn; Beyond Infrastructure and Superstructure: Intermediating Landscapes, Sören Schöbel and Daniel Czechowski; Landscapes of Variance: Working the Gap between Design and Nature, Ed Wall and Mike Dring; Designing Integral Urban Landscapes: On the End of Nature and the Beginning of Cultures, Stefan Kurath; Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics, Matthew Skjonsberg; ; Governance and Instruments; A Transatlantic Lens on Green Infrastructure Planning and Ecosystem Services: Assessing Implementation in Berlin and Seattle, Rieke Hansen, Emily Lorance Rall, and Stephan Pauleit; The Concept of "New Nature": A Paradigm Shift in How to Deal with Complex Spatial Questions, Susanne Kost; Ecological Network Planning: Exemplary Habitat Connectivity Projects in Germany, Manuel Schweiger; Planting the Desert: Cultivating Green Wall Infrastructure, Rosetta Sarah Elkin; Designing for Uncertainty: The Case of Canaan, Haiti, Johann-Christian Hannemann, Christian Werthmann, and Thomas Hauck; ; Applied Design Water-Sensitive Design of Open Space Systems: Ecological Infrastructure Strategy for Metropolitan Lima, Peru, Eva Nemcova, Bernd Eisenberg, Rossana Poblet, and Antje Stokman; Green Infrastructure: Performance, Appearance, Economy, and Working Method, Paulo Pellegrino, Jack Ahern, and Newton Becker; The Caribbean Landscape Cyborg: Designing Green Infrastructure for La Parguera, Puerto Rico, José Juan Terrasa-Soler, Mery Bingen, and Laura Lugo-Caro; Forests and Trees in the City: Southwest Flanders and the Mekong Delta, Bruno De Meulder and Kelly Shannon; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 712.2; City planning -- Environmental aspects; Landscape architecture; Urban ecology (Biology); Sustainable urban development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482232219
• Related ISBNs: 9781482232202
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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