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The Yearbook of Landscape Architecture : Private Spaces in the Landscape
by Austin, R.L
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Near Fine in a price-clipped dustwrapper
- ISBN 10
- 0442210752
- ISBN 13
- 9780442210755
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, first edition, 1984. Rexine, gilt cover-title, 4to, 29 cm,. xi, 120 pp, ills. From the blurb - "The 'Yearbook of Landscape Architecture - Private Spaces in the Landscape' explores many aspects of the design and use of personal spaces In a wide variety of environments. It provides practical solutions to actual problems encountered in designing outdoor and indoor private spaces in public areas, apartment complexes, and private homes, and In communities large and small. You find out how to design environments that attract and maintain human occupants in cooperative and communicative relationships rather than competitive ones. This invaluable guide fully explains how to: Design a secluded garden. Including choosing the right plants and placing them correctly; Regulate solar access by using plants and optimal spatial orientation; Design for the convenience and pleasure of pedestrians, with special focus on the Path System; Apply conservation techniques in the design of existing landscapes..". Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Near Fine in a price-clipped dustwrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-58590
- Title
- The Yearbook of Landscape Architecture : Private Spaces in the Landscape
- Author
- Austin, R.L
- Format/Binding
- Rexine, gilt cover-title, 4to, 29 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Near Fine in a price-clipped dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0442210752
- ISBN 13
- 9780442210755
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, first edition, 1984
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- xi, 120 pp, ills
- Keywords
- Austin, Richard L. Landscape architecture -- United States. Space (Architecture) Gardens -- Design. Landscape architecture. Architecture du paysage. Espace (Architecture) Jardins -- Architecture.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture Books;
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