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Books |  | EAT UP: The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture Philadelphia Green Roof Designer Writes First Full-Length Book on Rooftop Agriculture - EAT UP | The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture Green roof designer, landscape architect, and Philadelphia-native Lauren Mandel breaks down the lofty notions of Rooftop Agriculture in the first full-length book about rooftop food production. | Soaring prices and concerns about chemical-laden fruits and vegetables increasingly drive us to grow our own healthy food close to home. In cities, however, vanishing ground space and contaminated soils spur farmers, activists, and restaurateurs to look to the skyline for a solution. The hunger for local food has reached new heights, and rooftops can provide the space that cities need to bring fresh, organic produce to tables across North America. |
| The Professional
Design Guide to
Green Roofs
| | Ecosystem Services Come To Town: Greening Cities by Working with Nature | | Green Roofs and
Rooftop Gardens
(BBG Guides for a Greener Planet) | | Vertical Garden:
From Nature to City
(Revised & Updated) | 
by Karla Dakin, Lisa Lee Benjamin and Mindy Pantiel
(2013) | |  by Gary Grant
(2012) | | 
by Beth Hanson (2012)
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by Patrick Blanc
(2012) | | Until recently, most green rooftop gardens were little more than variations on sedum mats on four inches of soil. Now, designers are creating cutting-edge green roofs that focus not only on critical environmental issue like heat, storm management, and ecosystem development, but also on the aesthetics, offering beautiful, livable, sustainable landscapes. The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs is a comprehensive exploration of rooftop garden design and the process behind it. It covers everything landscape architects and garden designers need to know to create a beautiful garden in the sky. With lush photography, international examples, and solid how-to information, this is an essential resource for all design professionals. | | The need to find new approaches to the development of cities is becoming increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development – even in the built environment. Ecosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, cities can become more efficient and more pleasant to live in. The history of cities and city planning is covered with the impacts of industrial urban development described, as well as the contemporary concerns of biodiversity loss, peak oil and climate change.
| | The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has long been a leading advocate of urban greening and sustainable design--and a green roof is an exciting expression of these ideals. Vegetated roof systems prevent water pollution, cool and purify the surrounding air, extend roof life, and improve energy efficiency. Here are 13 of New York City's most remarkable examples--including the elevated lawn at Lincoln Center--along with a detailed historical overview, essays by industry experts, and practical advice readers can use to turn their own roofs green. Chapters included: Green Roofs Past, Present, and Future, by Linda S. Velazquez, Green Roof and Living Wall Trends, by Linda S. Velazquez with Haven Kiers, and Green Roof Horticulture, by Edmund C. Snodgrass. | | 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. |
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|  |  |  |  | Sustainable Design:
A Critical Guide,
by David Bergman
2012 | Gardening Vertically: 24 Ideas for Creating Your Own Green Walls,
by Noémie Vialard,
2012 | Up on the Roof:
New York's Hidden
Skyline Spaces
by Alex MacLean,
2012 | The Rise of Living Architecture Commemorative Edition celebrates the contribution of more than 50 leading experts to the development of the green roof and wall industry over the past decade. |
|  |  |  |  | Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces,
by Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet,
2011 | The Vertical Farm:
Feeding the World in
the 21st Century,
Dickson Despommier,
2011 | 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 | Green roofs and biodiversity: Can Green Roofs provide habitat for invertebrates in an urban environment?
by Gyongyver Kadas,
2011 |
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Green Roofs and Walls,
by Graeme Hopkins and Christine Goodwin,
2011 | Shanghai Expo
Vertical Greening,
by Wang Xianmin,
2011 | Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture,
by Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders,
2011 | Rooftop Gardens,
by Denise LeFrak Calicchio, Roberta Amon, Norman McGrath, Dominique Browning, et al.,
2011 |
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| Small Green Roofs:
Low-Tech Options for Greener Living,
Paperback by
Edmund C. Snodgrass, Nigel Dunnett, Dusty Gedge,
and John Little
2011
Read an excerpt from this book here: Small Green Roofs: Ancaya Garden Shed | Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources: Policies, Planning, Design, and Implementation,
by James L. Sipes,
2010 | Green Roofs and Facades,
by Gary Grant,
2010 | Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning,
by Timothy Beatley,
2010 |
|  |  |  |  | Retrofitting Office Buildings to Be Green and Energy-Efficient: Optimizing Building Performance, Tenant Satisfaction, and Financial Return,
by Leanne Tobias, [Article by Ralph Velasquez],
2010 | The Green Roof Manual: A Professional Guide to Design, Installation, and Maintenance,
by Edmund C. Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre,
2010 | DIY Guide to
Green & Living Roofs,
by John Little and
Dusty Gedge,
2010 | Green Roof Construction and Maintenance,
by Kelly Luckett,
2009 |
|  |  |  |  | Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure,
by Susan Weiler, Katrin Scholz-Barth,
2009 | Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs,
by Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan,
2009 | Award Winning
Green Roof Designs,
by Steven Peck,
2008 | A Selection of Plants for Green Roofs in Singapore,
by Puay Yok Tan and
Angelia Sia,
2008 |
|  |  |  |  | Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls,
by Nigel Dunnett,
2008 | Organic Architecture,
by Javier Senosiain, Fernando de Haro, and Omar Fuentes,
2008 | The Vertical Garden: From
Nature to the City,
by Patrick Blanc,
2008 | Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design,
by Steven L. Cantor,
2008 |
|  |  |  |  | Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition,
by J. William Thompson and Kim Sorvig,
2007 | Green Roof: A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architect,
by Christian Werthmann,
["Read Top-down approach"]
2007 | Rain Gardens: Managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape,
by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden,
2007 * | Vertical Gardens,
by Anna Lambertini,
2007 |
|  |  |  |  | Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture,
by Liat Margolis
2007 | Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction,
by Earth Pledge Foundation,
2007 | Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse,
by Heather Kinkade-Levario,
2007 | Roof Garden,
by Wang Xianmin,
2007 |
|  |  |  |  | Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide,
by Edmund C. Snodgrass and Lucie L. Snodgrass,
2006 * | Naturación Urbana:
Cubiertas Ecológicas
(Segunda edicion),
by Julian Briz,
2004 | Sky Gardens: Rooftops, Balconies, and Terraces,
by Signe Nielsen,
2004 | Bio-Architecture,
by Javier Senosiain,
2003 |
|  |  |  |  | Gardens in the Sky,
by Michele Osborne,
2003 | Cradle to Cradle:
Remaking the Way
We Make Things,
by William McDonough & Michael Braungart,
2002 * | A Trellis for Mr. Ellis,
by A.G. Ellis,
2002 * | Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs,
by Charles E. Aguar,
2002 * |
|  |  |  |  | Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature,
by Janine M. Benyus,
2002 | Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century,
by David Gissen,
2002 | Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design (Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve),
by Robert L. France (Chapter by Tom Liptan), 2002 | Roof Gardens:
History, Design, and
Construction,
by Theodore Osmundson,
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