The home and immediate locality increasingly become the focus of every-day living in later life. As such, the home environment has a strong effect upon the functional, social and psychological well-being of elderly people. ...

The presence of tourists and tourism has, over the decades, increased in importance on a national, regional and local scale. Both the physical and cultural components of the total landscape have been affected in many ...

Visual illusions have been used in design to manipulate space throughout history. This study looks at their use in the past and their application in today's world.

Most urban centres are sited on low lying areas where wetlands would have naturally occurred. The previous attitude was to drain and fill wetlands to stabilise land for urban or industrial development. But now their values ...

Look around you and the world is filled with structure. These structures are from nature, human made, physical realities but also cultural. Generally these structures create barriers or walls, visually and to our physical ...

Postmodernism is a broad based phenomena, which at once is a group of attitudes and theories, is to do with the condition of living in the contemporary world, and includes a concomitant range of styles and expressions in ...

This dissertation argues that a sustainable ethic should become a fundamental principle for landscape architecture. Evidence of environmental degradation as a result of unsustainable land design and management is mounting. ...

Virtually no urban areas in New Zealand have "just grown" in regard to the layout of streets and allotments. From very early days legislation has empowered Local Authorities to control some aspects of subdivisional ...

There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the use of atria in large scale commercial buildings. Several recent prestigious buildings such as the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hongkong, the World Financial Centre in New ...

It begins with a brief historical overview of Ngati Kahu prior to European settlement and up to the present day and goes on to briefly describe Karikari Peninsular. The third chapter attempts to delineate Maori perspectives ...