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UNINA9910462979303321 |
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Pattern [[electronic resource] ] : ornament, structure, and behavior / / edited by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis |
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Basel ; ; Boston, : Birkhauser, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (108 p.) |
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GleinigerAndrea |
VrachliotisGeorg |
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Architecture |
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) |
Architecture - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front matter -- Inhalt -- EDITORIAL / Gleiniger, Andrea / Vrachliotis, Georg -- NEW PATTERNS? OLD PATTERNS? - ON THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL OF ORNAMENT / Gleiniger, Andrea -- "AND IT WAS OUT OF THAT THAT I BEGAN DREAMING ABOUT PATTERNS..." ON THINKING IN STRUCTURES, DESIGNING WITH PATTERNS, AND THE DESIRE FOR BEAUTY AND MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE / Vrachliotis, Georg -- ARCHITECTURAL ALGORITHMS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DESIGN PATTERN / Scheurer, Fabian -- WAYFINDING STRATEGIES AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS IN BUILT SPACES / Hölscher, Christoph -- PATTERNS IN THE BRAIN NEUROSCIENTIFIC NOTES ON THE PATTERN CONCEPT / Christen, Markus -- REGULAR IRREGULAR - ON THE FLEETING QUALITY OF PATTERN IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Mundry, Isabel -- SELECTED LITERATURE -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- BIOGRAPHIES |
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As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament - and hence pattern as well - was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth |
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century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960's. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture? |
Complex patterns are founded on simple rules. Pattern and pattern formation are of new, important significance as the fundamental principles of systematization and description of very complex processes and phenomena. Which idea of pattern has to be used in the architectural discourse today? |
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UNINA9910970045903321 |
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Rangeland health : standards and guidelines for healthy rangelands |
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Salt Lake City, UT (324 S. State St., Salt Lake City 84145-0155), : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, 1997 |
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9786610196562 |
9781280196560 |
1280196564 |
9780309566476 |
0309566479 |
9780585156347 |
0585156344 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations |
1 online resource |
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Range management - United States |
Rangelands - United States |
Range ecology - United States |
Range management |
Rangelands |
Range ecology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-168) and index. |
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""RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""STATE OF RANGELAND ECOSYSTEMS""; ""Questions About Methods""; ""Lack of Reliable Data""; ""Need to Know is Urgent""; ""PURPOSES OF NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""Standards for National Assessments""; ""DEFINITION OF RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""MINIMUM ECOLOGICAL STANDARD""; ""USE AND MANAGEMENT""; ""Categories for National Assessments""; ""METHODS TO ASSESS RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Defining Boundaries""; ""Criteria and Indicators""; ""SOIL STABILITY AND WATERSHED FUNCTION"" |
""NUTRIENT CYCLING AND ENERGY FLOW"" ""RECOVERY MECHANISMS""; ""Research Needed""; ""NATIONAL INVENTORYING AND MONITORING SYSTEM""; ""Minimum Data Set""; ""Standardize Indicators and Methods""; ""National Sampling System""; ""Periodic Sampling Needed""; ""TRANSITION TO RANGELAND HEALTH ASSESSMENTS""; ""Intermediate Steps""; ""Preserving Continuity During the Transition""; ""CHALLENGE TO RANGE SCIENTISTS AND MANAGERS""; ""1 Rangelands are Important ""; ""RANGELAND MANAGEMENT AND USES""; ""CONCERN ABOUT THE STATE OF U.S. RANGELANDS""; ""Federal Management of U.S. Rangelands"" |
""Present State of Rangelands"" ""ASSESSMENTS OF RANGELANDS""; ""DEFICIENCIES OF ASSESSMENTS""; ""UTILITY OF CURRENT METHODS AND DATA""; ""URGENT NEED FOR NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""2 Rangeland Health ""; ""GOALS FOR NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""STANDARDS FOR RANGELAND ASSESSMENTS""; ""Rangeland Health""; ""Categories for Rangeland Assessments""; ""DEFINING BOUNDARIES""; ""THRESHOLDS BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL STATES""; ""PROCESSES OF CHANGE""; ""THRESHOLD OF RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""EARLY WARNING LINE""; ""MULTIPLE STATES AND TRANSITIONS""; ""ROLE OF RANGELAND HEALTH IN RANGELAND MANAGEMENT"" |
""Goal of Range Management"" ""Additional Information Needed to Determine Appropriate Management""; ""Rangeland in Extreme Environments""; ""3 Current Methods of Rangeland Assessment ""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF CURRENT THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RANGELAND ASSESSMENTS""; ""Early Development Of Survey Methods""; ""Standardization of Rangeland Surveys""; ""New Theoretical Foundation for Rangeland Surveys""; ""SUCCESSION AND CLIMAX COMMUNITIES""; ""SUCCESSIONAL STAGES AND RANGELAND ASSESSMENT""; ""SUCCESSIONAL STAGES AS CONDITION CLASSES"" |
""ADOPTION OF THE SUCCESSION-RETROGRESSION MODEL BY FEDERAL AGENCIES""""APPLICABILITY OF THE SUCCESSION-RETROGRESSION MODEL""; ""LINKS BETWEEN OTHER BRANCHES OF ECOLOGY AND RANGELAND SCIENCE""; ""CURRENT AGENCY RANGELAND ASSESSMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE""; ""Site Classification""; ""RANGE SITE CLASSIFICATION""; ""ECOLOGICAL SITES AND TYPES""; ""Evaluation of Range Condition and Ecological Status""; ""RANGE CONDITION (SCS)""; ""ECOLOGICAL STATUS (USFS AND BLM)""; ""Trend and Apparent Trend""; ""NEW METHODS NEEDED TO ASSESS RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Site Classification""; ""CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CLIMAX CONCEPT"" |
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Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, |
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and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and management of rangelands have been matters for scientific inquiry and public debate since the 1880s, when reports of widespread range degradation and livestock losses led to the first attempts to inventory and classify rangelands. Scientists are now questioning the utility of current methods of rangeland classification and inventory, as well as the data available to determine whether rangelands are being degraded. These experts, who are using the same methods and data, have come to different conclusions. This book examines the scientific basis of methods used by federal agencies to inventory, classify, and monitor rangelands; it assesses the success of these methods; and it recommends improvements. The book's findings and recommendations are of interest to the public; scientists; ranchers; and local, state, and federal policymakers. |
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