Form and fabric in landscape architecture : a visual introduction /: a visual introduction. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Catherine Dee.
• Other Names: Dee, Catherine, 1958-
• Contents: 1. Landscape fabric -- Contexts for the design of landscapes -- Global landscape -- Landscape processes and systems -- Landscapes and people -- Regional landscapes -- Towns and cities -- City districts -- Urban greenspace and communications -- Models of design and qualities of place -- Responsiveness -- Originality -- Recycling versus tabula rasa -- Robustness and inclusiveness -- Mystery, legibility, complexity and coherence -- Unity with diversity -- Prospect and refuge theory -- Wholeness and integration -- The integrated design of places -- Integration of spaces and paths -- Integration of spaces, paths, edges, thresholds and foci -- Integration of topography, vegetation, structures and water -- 2. Spaces -- Ground, "wall" and "sky" planes -- Design planes and landscape elements -- People's use and experience of spaces -- Form of spaces -- Interpretation of existing site forms -- Geometry -- Metaphor -- Symbolism -- Abstraction and use of natural forms -- Archetypes -- Vernacular -- Historic paradigms -- Space enclosure -- Degrees and permeability of enclosure -- Enclosure and character of spaces -- Enclosure and microclimate -- Spaces and edges -- Scale of spaces -- Human scale -- Scale and context -- Vastness to intimacy -- Proportion of spaces -- Satisfying proportions -- Over-vertical and under-vertical enclosure -- Space relationships -- Sequence of spaces -- Topographic space relationships -- Contrast and similarity of spaces -- [Topographic spaces -- Vegetation spaces -- Built spaces -- Water spaces -- 3. Paths -- Ecological corridors -- Form -- Topographic paths -- Vegetation paths -- Built paths -- Water paths -- 4. Edges] -- Edges and spaces, paths, thresholds and foci -- Forms -- Rugged and smooth edges and their juxtaposition -- Interlock -- Barriers : intentional and unintentional -- Gradients -- Rhythm, sequence, repetition -- Edge sub-spaces : niches -- Topographic edges -- Spurred edges -- Stacked edges -- Banks -- Ridges -- Ditches -- Steps as edges -- Cliffs and chasms -- Vegetation edges --"Soft" and "colonizing" edges -- Forest edge -- Avenue as place to be -- Hedges and shrubby edges -- Meadowed edges -- Built edges -- Building-landscape interface -- Colonnades and columns -- Walls : buttressed and indented -- Permeable structures -- Water's edge -- Beaches -- Platforms, boardwalks and piers -- Promenades -- Wetlands and marginal water places -- 5. Foci -- People's use and experience of foci -- Places to gather -- Foci and spaces -- Topographic foci -- Mounts, tors, and mountains -- Bowls and craters -- Points and spurs -- Vegetation foci -- Single trees -- Group of trees -- Topiary forms -- Built foci -- Buildings -- Follies, theatrical structures and remnants -- Rocks and standing stones -- Sculpture -- Water foci -- Fountains -- Waterfalls -- Springs, fonts and wells -- 6. Thresholds -- Entry spaces : outdoor anterooms -- Gateways -- Building entrance places -- Places of arrival, setting out and rest -- Unofficial places -- A small space linking larger spaces across an edge -- Windows and frames -- Places between earth and sky -- Topographic thresholds -- Gateways -- Landings and staircases -- Hollows -- Vegetation thresholds -- Tree canopies -- Build thresholds -- Pavement -- Terraces -- Water thresholds -- Inlets and harbors -- Decks and platforms -- Water in rest and entrance places -- 7. Detail -- Detailed design and the senses -- Surface texture, pattern, color and light -- Furniture -- Seating -- Earth and rock detail -- Sight -- touch -- Sound -- Smell -- Vegetation detail -- Change and time -- Build detail -- Water detail.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 712; Landscape architecture; Landscape design; Landscape architecture; Landscape design; Arquitectura del paisaje; Diseño de paisajes
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134577880; 1134577885
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.