Handbook of Soils for Landscape Architects

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Keefer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
Soil Components ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Soil Surveys ◽  
Concise Description

Written in a clear, accessible style, this book covers the fundamental aspects of soil science with an emphasis on topics useful to landscape architects and professionals in related fields. The book begins with a discussion of soil surveys developed in different countries, followed by a concise description of soil components and how the interactions between air, water, and nutrients affect plant growth. It examines methods for controlling erosion, particularly in light of modern irrigation techniques. It describes the chemistry of plant growth, devotes four chapters to macro- and micro-nutrients, and features a detailed discussion of ways to diagnose and correct plant disorders. It also looks at the engineering aspects of soils and includes a detailed list of references for further information. Written by an experienced teacher with an extensive background in landscape architecture, this volume will be an invaluable source for students and researchers in architecture, horticulture, and urban planning.

scholarly journals The Battle of the Bulb

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Susan Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
Street Protest

Albany Bulb, a former landfill, is a thirty-one-acre battleground for the Bay Area’s competing progressive movements for social justice, environmental conservation, and politically engaged art. Street protest, lawsuits, regulatory jockeying, anarchist camp-ins, and art have all been deployed in the name of saving this oddball spit of land from and for its users of many species. Drawing from information collected over sixteen years of visits to the Bulb, including scores of hours of interviews beginning in 2013, this essay brings together work from an interdisciplinary team of UC Berkeley students and Bulb residents to apply techniques of ethnography, contemporary archaeology, oral history, participatory mapping, mobile apps, botany, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to the study of the Bulb.

scholarly journals Greening And Landscaping Of The City Streets

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Nabiev M.N. ◽  
◽  
Mirzaolimov A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Green Plants ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

Landscape architectural objects, such as architectural and urban planning objects, cannot be realized without a project. The beauty and splendor of our cities and villages will apply not only to the architecture of buildings and structures under construction, but also to the architecture of open spaces, ie landscape architecture, to the design of objects. It should be noted that the appearance of trees and shrubs, which are recommended as green plants, is carefully selected, and it is not just a matter of adapting the plants to local natural conditions.

scholarly journals Crossing the Threshold between Spatial Installation Art and Interior Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caley Wiki
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ordering Systems ◽  
Selection Of

<p><b>This thesis explores opportunities to challenge how the nature of spatial installation art might be conceived within the medium of habitable architecture. It explores how spatial installation can take a shift in spatial qualities from space that is occupied to space that is inhabited. It focuses specifically on precedents and opportunities for the use of architectural vocabulary along with materiality, context, ordering systems, and identities to engage the occupant with spatial experience that challenges the boundaries between art and interior architecture. The intent of this thesis is to investigate how such vocabularies can be applied to interior architecture in order to formulate architectural space that society actively interacts in and through. The macro approach embraces multi - functionality allowing freedom for the space to metamorphose when confronted with a new set of social demands by the inhabitant without the space actually needing to physically change.</b></p> <p>The thesis investigates the threshold between the realms of conceptual spatial art and programmed habitable architectural space. It examines how an ‘installation’ can respond to multiple programmatic requirements and the requirements of habitation, as a means of redefining our presumptions of interior architecture. This thesis investigates the liminal boundaries defining a construction as a work of architecture versus a work of art by considering interior architecture as a vital transition between architecture and art. As a site for this investigation the thesis explores ‘interior architecture’ opportunities along a pedestrian pathway in Wellington, one which is spatially contained by urban buildings on either side. The selection of this site for an investigation of interior architecture immediately challenges traditional presumptive boundaries between interior architecture, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Such a site provides a critical vehicle for investigating the nature of program and habitability within a constructed installation space that crosses the boundaries into architecture.</p>

scholarly journals Crossing the Threshold between Spatial Installation Art and Interior Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caley Wiki
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ordering Systems ◽  
Selection Of

<p><b>This thesis explores opportunities to challenge how the nature of spatial installation art might be conceived within the medium of habitable architecture. It explores how spatial installation can take a shift in spatial qualities from space that is occupied to space that is inhabited. It focuses specifically on precedents and opportunities for the use of architectural vocabulary along with materiality, context, ordering systems, and identities to engage the occupant with spatial experience that challenges the boundaries between art and interior architecture. The intent of this thesis is to investigate how such vocabularies can be applied to interior architecture in order to formulate architectural space that society actively interacts in and through. The macro approach embraces multi - functionality allowing freedom for the space to metamorphose when confronted with a new set of social demands by the inhabitant without the space actually needing to physically change.</b></p> <p>The thesis investigates the threshold between the realms of conceptual spatial art and programmed habitable architectural space. It examines how an ‘installation’ can respond to multiple programmatic requirements and the requirements of habitation, as a means of redefining our presumptions of interior architecture. This thesis investigates the liminal boundaries defining a construction as a work of architecture versus a work of art by considering interior architecture as a vital transition between architecture and art. As a site for this investigation the thesis explores ‘interior architecture’ opportunities along a pedestrian pathway in Wellington, one which is spatially contained by urban buildings on either side. The selection of this site for an investigation of interior architecture immediately challenges traditional presumptive boundaries between interior architecture, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Such a site provides a critical vehicle for investigating the nature of program and habitability within a constructed installation space that crosses the boundaries into architecture.</p>

scholarly journals Iron (Fe) Nutrition of Plants

EDIS ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hochmuth
Keyword(s):  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Annual Plants ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
Fe Nutrition ◽  
Soil And Water ◽  
Growth And Reproduction

Iron is one of 16 essential elements for plant growth and reproduction. Most annual plants have a requirement for Fe on the order of 1 to 1.5 lb Fe per acre, compared with nitrogen (N) at 80 to 200 lb per acre. This 8-page fact sheet provides a detailed basic understanding of soil science and plant physiology for diagnosing and correcting Fe problems in plants and soils. Written by George Hochmuth and published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Science, August 2011. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss555

Has biotechnology a role in soil science?

Soil Research ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Dinitrogen Fixation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Growth Enhancement ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Soil Stabilisation

Biotechnology is discussed in terms of its potential to improve crop productivity and protect the environment. The topics covered include soil stabilisation, dinitrogen fixation, plant growth enhancement, biocontrol, bioremediation, and sustainability. It seems that soil science and biotechnology are totally interactive and both disciplines will advance where it is recognised that interdisciplinary studies are most valuable. Many advances in medicine and pharmacology are based on developments in soil science, such as the discovery of streptomycin from soil-borne actinomycetes. The soil biota should produce much scope yet for further discoveries, and there seems to be a place for soil science courses in biotechnological, environmental health, and medical education.

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