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Paperback (August 2011) by Graeme Hopkins and Christine Goodwin
Patrick Blanc, botanist and artist, is world famous as the inventor of the Vertical Garden, this new, updated edition of his book includes his latest achievements and projects, which are bolder than ever. Nobody is more familiar than Blanc with the secrets of the plants, from all over the world, that live on almost nothing, in the most unlikely situations, carpeting the forest understory in semi-darkness or clinging to rocky cliff faces. From Paris to Bangkok, from New York to Singapore, Blanc invites nature to flourish on the walls of museums, shopping malls, private homes, big hotels, and skyscrapers. His works have brought a breath of fresh air to urban environments, changing our view of the cityscape, orchestrating and bringing art into the heart of the city, transforming concrete walls into refuges for biodiversity.
Green Roof is both an old and fresh topic, many wise men with foresight predict that Green Roof will enter our life like TV and telephone. This is a book of Green Roof, a textbook and a reference book for the members of the emerging roof greening industry, a book that helps people learn the knowledge of this kind, an assistant of many cadres in environment protecting and energy saving. The book introduces the development of roof greening and vertical greening at home and abroad and discovers that Green Roof is the only way to building an ecological city and an important act in the 21st century to improve the environment, get closer to nature, and return to nature.
Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world are becoming denser, with greater built form resulting in more hard surfaces and less green space, leaving little room for vegetation or habitat. One way of creating more natural environments within cities is to incorporate green roofs and walls in new buildings or to retrofit them in existing structures. This practice has long been established in Europe and elsewhere, and now Australia and New Zealand have begun to embrace it.
The New American Landscape: Leading Voices on the Future of Sustainable Gardening, by Thomas Christopher, Rick Darke, Douglas W. Tallamy, Toby Hemenway, John Greenlee with Neil Diboll, Eric Toensmeier, David Wolfe, Ed Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre, Elaine Ingham, Sustainable Sites Initiative, David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth 2011
