Richard Haag

Richard Haag
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Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 1568981171
ISBN-13 : 9781568981178
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Richard Haag by : William S. Saunders

The Landscape Views series was established to highlight important issues of landscape architecture. Like our ever-popular Pamphlet Architecture series, Landscape Views packs a large amount of critical research into a small volume. Examines two projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Discovering Seattle Parks

Discovering Seattle Parks
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Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 9781680510027
ISBN-13 : 1680510029
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Discovering Seattle Parks by : Linnea Westerlind

Linnea Westerlind has visited each of Seattle’s 426 city parks, an effort which she documented on her blog, YearofSeattleParks.com—making her the absolutely perfect person to guide you to just the right park for your picnic, an outing with the kids, family reunion, or simply a fun new place to explore. Discovering Seattle’s Parks is based on Westerlind’s blog, but for this new guidebook she has revisited and further researched every single park she describes, and now includes even more detailed information and descriptions. Organized by neighborhood, such as Downtown, Queen Anne, or Northeast Seattle, the guide features full-color photos throughout and simple, illustrated maps for the largest parks with more complex trail systems. Each park’s listing includes: • Icons for key features—playgrounds, viewpoints, waterfront spots, hidden parks, and dog parks • Public transportation and parking directions • Details on the park’s history • Highlights such as public art, water features, cycling paths, and more • Color photographs that capture the park’s essence Discovering Seattle’s Parks will keep families, walkers, dog-lovers, and kids of all ages busy with year-round exploration and fun!

The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag

The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0295994487
ISBN-13 : 9780295994482
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag by : Thaïsa Way

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into the adaptive reuse of post-industrial sites. Thaisa Way places Haag's work within the context of changes in the practice of landscape architecture over the past five decades in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The book should be of interest to specialists as well as to readers who are interested in the changes in urban landscapes inspired by Haag's work. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=fUBeOCA8-kQ

Good Night Seattle

Good Night Seattle
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Publisher : Good Night Books
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : 9781602199347
ISBN-13 : 1602199345
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Good Night Seattle by : Jay Steere

In this soothing board book, young readers will delight in a personal tour of one the country's most interesting cities. From the Puget Sound to the Woodland Park Zoo, these colorful pages leave no stone unturned. Special sites and attractions include the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Burke-Gilman Trail, Seattle Public Library, Lake Union Houseboats, Mount Rainier, Space Needle, Pacific Science Center, Gas Works Park, Seattle Aquarium, Museum of Flight, Pike Place Market, and more.

Syntax of Landscape

Syntax of Landscape
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9783764376154
ISBN-13 : 3764376155
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Syntax of Landscape by : Udo Weilacher

Peter Latz and Partners specialize in a contemporary, intelligent use of alternative technologies and the regeneration of industrial wastelands. The trademark of the works of the firm, which was founded in 1968, is its ability to express ecological and social concerns in a strong aesthetic language.

Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics

Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics
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Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781594851605
ISBN-13 : 1594851603
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics by : Rob Sandelin

* More than 700 color illustrations for easy identification * Expanded with new sections on mushrooms, insects, and rock identification * Handy color tabs for easy access, and quick reference index on back cover Don't just call it a mushroom when it's a golden chanterelle; know your screech owl from your saw-whet owl; distinguish a monarch butterfly from a painted lady -- all with the help of this comprehensive guide to the common plants and animals of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. The species accounts have been updated with the latest taxonomic changes and, as before, include common name, scientific name, and description of important features, habitat, and geographic range.

Seattle Sketcher

Seattle Sketcher
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 1597255254
ISBN-13 : 9781597255257
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Seattle Sketcher by : Gabriel Campanario

From everyday moments to historic events, Seattle Times artist Gabriel Campanario captures life in the Northwest in his popular weekly column and blog, "The Seattle Sketcher." This heirloom-quality book features some of Campanario's best: the people, places and slices of life that characterize our unique and ever-changing city. This hardcover, fine-art, limited edition book features over 100 of Gabi Campanario's sketches and columns in full color, making it a true collector's item.

The Nature of Cities

The Nature of Cities
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0816519498
ISBN-13 : 9780816519491
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of Cities by : Michael Bennett

Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new collection of essays sharpens the focus on the nature of cities by exploring the facets of an urban ecocriticism, by reminding city dwellers of their place in ecosystems, and by emphasizing the importance of this connection in understanding urban life and culture. The editorsÑboth raised in small towns but now living in major urban areasÑare especially concerned with the sociopolitical construction of all environments, both natural and manmade. Following an opening interview with Andrew Ross exploring the general parameters of urban ecocriticism, they present essays that explore urban nature writing, city parks, urban "wilderness," ecofeminism and the city, and urban space. The volume includes contributions on topics as wide-ranging as the urban poetry of English writers from Donne to Gay, the manufactured wildness of a gambling casino, and the marketing of cosmetics to urban women by idealizing Third World "naturalness." These essays seek to reconceive nature and its cultural representations in ways that contribute to understanding the contemporary cityscape. They explore the theoretical issues that arise when one attempts to adopt and adapt an environmental perspective for analyzing urban life. The Nature of Cities offers the ecological component often missing from cultural analyses of the city and the urban perspective often lacking in environmental approaches to contemporary culture. By bridging the historical gap between environmentalism, cultural studies, and urban experience, the book makes a statement of lasting importance to the development of the ecocritical movement. CONTENTS Part 1ÑThe Nature of Cities 1. Urban Ecocriticism: An Introduction, Michael Bennett & David Teague 2. The Social Claim on Urban Ecology, Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) Part 2ÑUrban Nature Writing 3. London Here and Now: Walking, Streets, and Urban Environments in English Poetry from Donne to Gay, Gary Roberts 4. "All Things Natural Are Strange": Audre Lorde, Urban Nature, and Cultural Place, Kathleen R. Wallace 5. Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the Regreening of the American Suburb, Terrell Dixon Part 3ÑCity Parks 6. Writers and Dilettantes: Central Park and the Literary Origins of Antebellum Urban Nature, Adam W. Sweeting 7. Postindustrial Park or Bourgeois Playground? Preservation and Urban Restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park, Richard Heyman Part 4ÑUrban "Wilderness" 8. Boyz in the Woods: Urban Wilderness in American Cinema, Andrew Light 9. Central High and the Suburban Landscape: The Ecology of White Flight, David Teague 10. Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-urbanism and the Spatialization of Race, Michael Bennett Part 5ÑEcofeminism and the City 11. An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Urban Environment, Catherine Villanueva Gardner 12. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman": The Political Economy of Contemporary Cosmetics Discourse, Laura L. Sullivan Part 6ÑTheorizing Urban Space 13. Darwin's City, or Life Underground: Evolution, Progress, and the Shapes of Things to Come, Joanne Gottlieb 14. Nature in the Apartment: Humans, Pets, and the Value of Incommensurability, David R. Shumway 15. Cosmology in the Casino: Simulacra of Nature in the Interiorized Wilderness, Michael P. Branch

Seattle Gas Works Park

Seattle Gas Works Park
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Publisher : Cherry Lake
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781534172531
ISBN-13 : 153417253X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Seattle Gas Works Park by : Julie Knutson

Learn more about how Seattle's Gas Works Park went from unused brownfield land to vibrant urban park and art space. Explore the logistics of repurposing the land and meet the people who made it happen. The book showcases a range of 21st century skills -- from "Flexibility & Adaptation" to "Creativity & Innovation"--and shows how moving away from a tear-down culture towards one of reuse helps tackle a host of critical challenges facing our planet and population. Thought-provoking questions and hands-on activities encourage the development of critical life skills and social emotional growth. Books in this series include table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and infographics.

Colorful Seattle

Colorful Seattle
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Publisher : Colorful Cities Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0989897265
ISBN-13 : 9780989897266
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Colorful Seattle by : Laura Lahm

The most creative way to explore Seattle!More than a coloring book, follow Colorful Seattle's map from Pioneer Square to the Space Needle to the Olympic Sculpture Park, with many colorful stops in between. The whimsical illustrations of this Pacific Northwest gem will delight the most adventurous artist. Creative & educational, at home or on the go!Ideal for kids and adults, providing countless hours of exploring.Looking for things to do in Seattle? Colorful Seattle has you covered!Explore the Fremont Troll, Coleman Pool, Green Lake Park or the Burke Gilman Trail. Wander through Kubota Garden or Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park. Fly a kite at Gas Works Park or kayak in Lake Union. Discover history at the Center for Wooden Boats and the Museum of Pop History. Be amazed by the Seattle Central Library or the super-sized Oxbow Park. Forage for edible delights at the University Farmers Market or Fisherman's Terminal and so much more.There are many fun ways to use Colorful Seattle! Drop a pencil on the map or play "page roulette" to determine where you will explore. Make it an educational challenge to learn about a location or create art for your walls by removing the perforated illustrations.* 28 illustrations "we provide the lines so you can create the art"* One-sided printing on high-quality paper reduces marker and gel pen bleed* Top binding eliminates smudging for both left and right-handed artists* Perforated pages ensure seamless removal allowing illustrations to become instant art pieces* Designed, illustrated and printed 100% in the USA The Colorful Cities "Explore & Color"® series brings vibrant cities alive through playful illustrations, city maps and location descriptions. Designed for children of all ages, the books' combination travel guide and coloring book encourages creative exploration of cultures and places. Coloring that's educational. Other books in the series include: Colorful Tokyo, Colorful Portland, Colorful Chicago and Colorful Havana.From every