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Agricoltura paesaggistica : Visioni, metodi, esperienze
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Firenze : Firenze University Press,

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"L'agricoltura è la prima delle arti" was born from a project, from the conscious modification of a context, using knowledge which had been shared and accumulated over time. Contemporary agriculture, the daughter of the 'green revolution', of Fordism and its crisis, turned its back on the knowledge that agriculture was able to produce not only food, but also environmental protection and aesthetic quality. The texts collected in this volume are intended to encourage reflections and practices in the various areas of territory and landscape planning and design - on the university, political, technical, professional and administrative levels - which can lead the world of agriculture to regain a central role in outlining new relationships between inhabitants and territory. In these texts, the agricultural landscape represents an opportunity to produce a context where it is pleasant to live, with an approach far from the aesthetical drift of a 'picturesque' and imaginary misunderstanding; an approach which is however careful towards a contextual aesthetic, arising within and from the rural world.


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Landscape reclamation : rising from what's left
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Year: 1971 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,

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Ongoing landscape transformation worldwide has raised global concerns and there is a need to rethink landscaping to protect the environment. This is especially true for previously developed sites, currently abandoned or underused. Instead of consuming green lands, these derelict landscapes need to be redeveloped and given new life, enabling their transition to an increasingly sustainable urban setting. In this scenario, the present book, considers a set of subjects that highlight the diverse nature of the scientific domains associated with landscape reclamation, emphasizing the need to acknowledge that the contribution of each sustainability dimension is equally important. This will offer complementary development opportunities, while enabling redeveloped landscapes to fulfill multiple functions in an integrated way and underline the relevance of multifunctionality to promote sustainable landscape reclamation, planning, and development.


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Norwegian Garden Cities : Yesterday, Today - and Tomorrow?
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Oslo : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing),

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This book deals with the legacy of Norway's garden cities. It tracks the origins of the Norwegian garden city movement and discusses the current status of built examples. Through a detailed study of one example, Sinsen Garden City in Oslo, the book links the garden city heritage to a number of ongoing scholarly debates on topics like densification, sustainability, socio-economic conditions, life quality and neighborhood satisfaction. While the garden city can be criticized for its association with sprawl and its failure to deliver affordable housing for all, it has gained new momentum as a green, resilient resource in light of theoretical platforms like garden ecology and circular heritage. A key argument in the book is that the garden city is a pioneering example of a serious commitment to the environmental cause through architecture and planning. It is a reminder of the importance of environmental awareness today, not least because it accentuates the climate crisis through changing conditions for gardening in the summer and skiing in the winter. A garden city may have its faults and inadequacies, especially in regard to housing prices and social exclusion, but the overall conclusion is that it represents a valuable legacy with endurable qualities that cities will be needing in the future too.


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Modelling Landscape Dynamics : Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity
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ISBN: 3658424966 Year: 2023 Publisher: Wiesbaden, Germany : VS Springer,

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Geology and Landscape Evolution : General Principles Applied to the United States
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ISBN: 9780443158957 Year: 2024 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier,

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Landscapes beyond land : routes, aesthetics, narratives
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ISBN: 1283655659 0857456725 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys throu


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Agricoltura paesaggistica : visioni, metodi, esperienze
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Firenze, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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"L'agricoltura è la prima delle arti" was born from a project, from the conscious modification of a context, using knowledge which had been shared and accumulated over time. Contemporary agriculture, the daughter of the 'green revolution', of Fordism and its crisis, turned its back on the knowledge that agriculture was able to produce not only food, but also environmental protection and aesthetic quality. The texts collected in this volume are intended to encourage reflections and practices in the various areas of territory and landscape planning and design - on the university, political, technical, professional and administrative levels - which can lead the world of agriculture to regain a central role in outlining new relationships between inhabitants and territory. In these texts, the agricultural landscape represents an opportunity to produce a context where it is pleasant to live, with an approach far from the aesthetical drift of a 'picturesque' and imaginary misunderstanding; an approach which is however careful towards a contextual aesthetic, arising within and from the rural world.


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Abbazie e paesaggi medievali in Toscana
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Firenze, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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Il volume raccoglie i contributi della giornata di studio tenuta il 16 giugno 2010 all'Università di Firenze su "Abbazie e paesaggi medievali in Toscana", cioè sulle forme del territorio che hanno strutturato per secoli i modi di vita nelle campagne della nostra regione. Si afferma oggi una infatuazione per quel paesaggio, cui fa riscontro una mancanza di interesse per la sua conservazione o per trasformazioni rispettose delle regole che lo hanno prodotto. È quindi opportuno presentare, al vaglio del metodo storico, uno sguardo sintetico sul paesaggio medievale, dalle premesse di antica matrice alle ragioni economiche della formazione monastica e feudale fino alla comparsa di un nuovo assetto apprezzato per la sua utile bellezza, in un persistente sostrato di misteriosa affabulazione. La Toscana permette molteplici riscontri di ciò che effettivamente sopravvive del pervasivo ordine stabilito nel Medioevo anche per le sue esemplari rappresentazioni letterarie e iconografiche, coeve e moderne.

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ISBN: 0582810868 Year: 1999 Publisher: S.l. Longman

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Mockingbird song : ecological landscapes of the South
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ISBN: 1469605198 0807876607 9780807876602 9781469605197 9780807859223 0807859222 0807830577 9780807830574 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the m

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