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This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives-aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social-in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a counter to gray urban environments, green has not always been good for cities. Similarly, manifestation of the color green in arid urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of green from an environmental point of view. This paradox is at the heart of the book. In arid environments such as Bahrain, the contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain, where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and exists in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. Explicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place.

Colors --- Farbenpsychologie. --- Green --- Greenbelts --- Greenbelts. --- Grünfläche. --- Landschaftsarchitektur. --- Stadt. --- Urban landscape architecture --- Urban landscape architecture. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Bahrain. --- Green belts --- Open spaces --- Colours --- Color --- Landscape architecture --- arab gulf states. --- arab. --- bahrain landscape. --- bahrain social infrastructure. --- bahrain. --- bahraini landscape. --- date palms. --- green architecture. --- green cities. --- green in the built environment. --- green landscape. --- green scenery. --- greenbelts. --- greenery. --- landscape architecture. --- manama greenbelt. --- middle east. --- middle eastern landscape architecture. --- persian gulf landscape. --- persian gulf. --- the color green. --- urban environments. --- urban landscape architecture. --- urban landscape. --- urban planning.

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While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed.The premise of the book 'Ecological Urbanism' is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. “Ecological Urbanism” approaches the city without any one set of instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary approach. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment.The book 'Ecological Urbanism' brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.With contributions by Homi Bhabha, Stefano Boeri, Chuck Hoberman, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, Mohsen Mostafavi, Matthias Schuler, Sissel Tolaas, Charles Waldheim, among others.

Environmental planning --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Population urbaine --- Urban population --- 72:574(035) --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Ecologie ; stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad --- Architectuur en ecologie ; handboeken --- Dégradation --- 711.4(C) --- Ecologische stedenbouw --- 711.4 --- 911.375 --- 504.54 --- 504 --- Urbanisatie (stedelijke omgeving, verstedelijking) --- 504.54 Landscape. Landscape ecology --- Landscape. Landscape ecology --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities --- Ecologie --- Duurzaamheid --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Urbanisme durable --- Ecologie appliquée --- Urbanization --- Environmental aspects. --- ecology --- urbanism --- urban planning --- urban development --- Urban environment --- amenity planting --- world --- Sustainable urban development --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning. --- Environmental degradation. --- Sustainable development. --- Ecologie urbaine --- Urbanisme --- Environnement --- Développement durable --- 712 --- 574 --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Landschapsarchitectuur --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid

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Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both disturb and develop received understandings of landscape architecture. These definitions distinguish between landscape as representational medium, academic discipline, and professional identity. Beginning with an inquiry into the origins of the term itself, Is Landscape . . . .? features essays by a dozen leading voices shaping the contemporary reading of landscape as architecture and beyond.

Landscape architecture - Philosophy --- Landscape assessment --- Landscape architecture --- Landscape assessment. --- Philosophy. --- Architecture du paysage --- Paysages --- Philosophie --- Évaluation