[PDF] Opening Spaces eBook

Author : Hans Loidl
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035626324

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"What does the landscape architect actually do as a designer?" The authors of this book investigate this question, which only seems easy – and address some fundamental ideas about design in landscape architecture: What resources are available for designing open spaces? What role do natural conditions play? What principles are applied? This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. Based on their experience in practice and education, the authors reveal the core components of landscape design. In the introduction to the new edition, Stefan Bernard opens up about the book’s origins and reflects on its continuing importance for the design of high-quality outdoor spaces.

Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780435910105

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In this anthology the award-winning author Yvonne Vera brings together the stories of many talented writers from different parts of Africa.

Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1504042883

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These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Author : Joe Marshall Hardin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780791449035

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Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.

Author : Patricia Sullivan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Use Various Contrastive Tactics to Clarify These Tensions. Conclusion: Opening Critical Spaces.

Author : Helen Woolley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135802297

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Brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of open spaces to society and individuals.

Author : Jim Palmer
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2007-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1418537543

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Jim Palmer's critically acclaimed Divine Nobodies was only half the story - the deconstruction and shedding of a religious mentality that hindered his knowing God. In his next book, Jim takes the reader along into the wide open spaces of exploring and experiencing God beyond religion. Jim writes, "It is no secret that God can be lost beneath the waving banner of religion. Divine Nobodies is my story of how this happened to me. Sometimes you have to disentangle God from religion, even Christ from Christianity, to find the truth. With the help of some unsuspecting nobodies, I uncovered a new starting line with God. As I've put one foot in front of another, I've experienced God in ways that are deeply transforming." Each chapter revolves around a central question related to knowing God on fresh terms: Is God a belief system? Is the Bible a landing strip or launching pad? Can what we're feeling inside be God? Are we too religiously minded to be any earthly good? Brian McLaren wrote, "I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Don Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice." The Library Reviews said of him, "Jim Palmer's casual, yet compelling writing style cuts through the religious rhetoric and gets to the real issues...readers will love this author! His sense of humor is alternately mixed with shocking sentences and poignant moments. Laced throughout is a refreshing honesty that ties his ideas together with a ribbon of reality...each turn of the page strips away a little more of the contrived mystery of Christianity until the simplicity and sincerity of it stands in realistic splendor." More and more people seek a deeper spirituality beyond status-quo religion. Others are left empty and weary from a shallow and narrow pop-Christianity. Palmer says that God's kingdom of love, peace, and freedom can be a present reality in any person's life. He proclaims that God is indeed in the process of birthing something deep and wide among unlikely people in unconventional ways, which is changing the world...one "nobody" at a time.

Author : Tom H. Stoner
Publisher : Tkf Foundation
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780981565606

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Sacred Places.

Author : Hans Loidl
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2014-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783038214878

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"'What does the landscape architect actually do as a designer?' The authors of this book investigate this question, which only seems easy - and address some fundamental ideas about design in landscape architecture: What resources are available for designing open spaces? How is it possible to exchange descriptions and concepts dealing with this? How can social and perceptual aspects be included and how can they be taken into account by the design process? What part is played by conditions deriving from nature? And what is more: how are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used?"--Back cover.

Author : Mona Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317537513

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Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes of co-optation and reverse co-optation, power and resistance, the ethics of witnessing and solidarity, and novel responses to the democratic deficit. Framed by a substantial introduction by the editors, the twelve contributions to the volume interrogate the concept of citizen media theoretically and empirically, and offer detailed case studies that extend from the UK to Russia and Bulgaria and from China to Denmark and the liminal spaces within which a growing number of refugees now live. A rich new domain of scholarship and practice emerges out of the studies presented. Citizen media is shown to embrace both physical and digital interventions in public space, as well as the sets of values and agendas that influence and drive the practices and discourses through which individuals and collectives position themselves within and in relation to society and participate in the creation of diverse publics. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in media and communication studies, particularly those studying citizen media, media and society, journalism and society, and political communication. Cover image: courtesy of Ruben Hamelink