James Hitchmough / Ken Fieldhouse (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Plant User Handbook

A Guide to Effective Specifying

Ed. by James Hitchmough and Ken Fieldhouse

Beschreibung

aeo a unique source of reference for everyone concerned with successful plant establishment and amenity landscape management aeo provides practical guidance from leading specialists aeo richly illustrated -- black & white and colour plates and line drawings.

Autor

James Hitchmough is Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture and has a wide-ranging interest in the use of vegetation in landscape design management. Ken Fieldhouse was a qualified Landscape Architecture and trained Town Planner. He was editor of Landscape Design Journal and was deeply involved in a wide range of environmental publishing initiatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 190mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780632058433
• ISBN-10: 0632058439
• Artikelnr.: 13641657

Rezensionen

'This handbook is destined to become an essential guide to thespecification of plants and planting for professionals andstudents....The book will help landscape architects both to specifyplanting with more confidence and techical understanding andencourage them to be more adventurous and creative with futureplanting schemes. This book, deserves a place in every practicelibrary: it should be compulsory reading for everyone involved inthe design and implementation of planting. In fact, the Plant UserHandbook should be read by all plant users.'

Landscape Magazine April 2004

'This book will help landscape professionals enormously withtheir main knowledge base' Greenscapes June 2004

This handbook is destined to become an essential guide to the specification of plants and planting for professionals and students....The book will help landscape architects both to specify planting with more confidence and techical understanding and encourage them to be more adventurous and creative with future planting schemes. This book, deserves a place in every practice library: it should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the design and implementation of planting. In fact, the Plant User Handbook should be read by all plant users.

Landscape Magazine April 2004

This book will help landscape professionals enormously with their main knowledge base Greenscapes June 2004