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Publications7.7.2015

Field Guide to Softscape

Leonard J. Hopper

Part of Wiley’s new Graphic Standard Field Guides series, Graphic Standards Field Guide to Softscape is the reference for the on-the-go professional. The perfect companion to the main Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, this field guide provides the same standard architectural details and drawings that professionals count on from Graphic Standards, and adds photographs and interpretive

Publications7.7.2015

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards

Leonard J. Hopper

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the “bible” for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of Landscape

Publications7.7.2015

Reweaving the Urban Fabric: Approaches to Infill Housing

Ghislaine Hermanuz, Marta Gutman

Affordable housing is a hot topic in New York City these days, especially as housing costs increase to the point of pricing out lower- and middle-income residents from Manhattan and parts of the other boroughs. All too often affordable housing this century is part of larger, market-rate developments rather than standalone projects. Yet 25 years

Publications7.6.2015

Designing Modern Childhoods

History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children

Marta Gutman

With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable;

Publications7.6.2015

Detroit Interrupted

Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development

Andrea Hansen, Toni Griffin

From Introduction: “…what is to become of a regional urban center that currently is too large for its local government to manage, has too much land to return to near term economic value, and is too spread out to maintain sustainable systems of infrastructure, service delivery, neighborhood and community? What must Detroit do over the

Publications7.6.2015

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Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape

Peter Gisolfi

Peter Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect and educator whose substantial design practice extends over 20 years. Most of his work consists of carefully crafted buildings that relate to a larger setting. A variety of public and private projects completed throughout the United States are featured in this first monograph. The projects in this book