This book offers a practitioner's guide to the process of planning for and implementing information systems. Aiming to demonstrate in a straightforward manner the way information systems can be planned and designed given limited time and resources and set against defined terms of reference, the book is essentially pragmatic. Areas such as basic sociological problems in IT and the design of the user friendly interface are covered. Tutorial material is included for self-study and the book features case studies from developing countries.

Rapid Information Systems Development: A Non-Specialist's Guide to Analysis and Design in an Imperfect World (McGraw-Hill International Series in So)

BELL, Simon

Wood-Harper, A.T.

Wood-Harper, Trevor

Computers & Technology

McGraw=Hill

Designed to provide the non-IT specialist with a user-friendly and practical guide to the various stages in the IS project lifecycle, from feasibility to implementation, monitoring and evaluation, this text utilizes a step-by-step approach. Core stages and procedures relating to the sound development of information systems for a range of cultures and socio-political environments are discussed. At the same time, pitfalls and problems are indicated, and guidelines for good practice are put forward. In this edition there is a revised focus on modern IT developments and a supported learning approch. The organization of the book is such that time wasting through reading about non-relevant (to an individual reader) issues may be avoided. Implicit in the approach of the book as a whole is the understanding that in many situations where information systems are required there is not always a lot of time to carry out in-depth planning.

Rapid Informations Systems Development (International Software Engineering)

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? In this significantly revised and updated third edition of Simon Bell's seminal text, he further explores the answers to these questions by interrogating a range of design principles, applications and ideas. Written for students, instructors and professionals, the book unveils a visual design vocabulary for anyone involved with landscape aesthetics including landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers, landscape managers, foresters, geographers and ecologists. Structured around key design terms, which are explained and illustrated using an extensive range of examples from around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, this book enables you to describe, debate and design the visual landscape. It starts with basic elements, before moving onto variable design components, and then the ways these elements are organized into compositions, in order to demonstrate how landscapes are created and how meanings and patterns are perceived within them. This new full colour edition contains over 240 images; an updated introduction; examples from China, Vietnam and central Asia; a chapter on how to read and understand visual design elements in the landscape; a teaching model for instructors; and expanded appendix materials including a glossary, references and further reading.

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Routledge

In Learning with Information Systems the author takes the developing world as the context and through a series of case studies develops a commonly used systems analysis methodology. He demonstrates how this methodology can evolve and adapt as new ideas become prominent. Issues of sustainability of information systems, participation in systems design and user ownership of systems are all examined. This book does not attempt to be prescriptive for all contexts nor does it focus on any particular technology. It addresses the essential questions and promises practical approaches which will help in the avoidance of the worst forms of disaster associated with the planning of information systems for developing countries.

Learning with Information Systems: Learning Cycles in Information Systems Development (Routledge Research in Information Systems)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonised? These are just some of the questions tackled in this refreshing approach to the subject. In Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape the author explains a range of design principles. This new edition includes revised and updated text that will link to other areas of research and disciplines such as aesthetic philosophy and psychology. A third of the photographs have been replaced with new photographs showing better and more recent examples and also reflecting landscape in a wider range of countries.

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Public concern about the landscape, in particular its appearance, is increasing all the time. For those charged with managing, developing or conserving a wide range of landscapes it is a major task to take visual aspects into account. Elements of Visual Design in the Landsacpe presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence. It is profusely illustrated using both abstract and real examples taken from a wide range of international locations together with cross referencing between related principles and case studies demonstrating how the principles can be applied in practice. The visual aspects of design have often been treated as 'cosmetic' and therefore not meriting attention or purely subjective and therefore open to personal preference. Few attempts have been made to explain how we see the landscape in any rational and structured way, and to demonstrate how visually creative design and management can be undertaken. This book aims to fill that gap.

Drawing

Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations. The book is a comprehensive manual for planners, designers and managers of recreation taking them through the processes of design and enabling them to find the most appropriate balance between visitor needs and the capacity of the landscape. A range of different aspects are covered including car parking, information signing, hiking, waterside activities, wildlife watching and camping. This second edition incorporates new examples from overseas, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Eastern Europe as well as focusing on more current issues such as accessibility and the changing demands for recreational use.

Design for Outdoor Recreation

Humor & Entertainment

Taylor&Francis

Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes – climatic, geological, ecological and cultural – over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge – ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of these patterns goes beyond just their visual appreciation – beautiful though they may be – into a richer understanding of how we experience our environment. By understanding this complex pattern–process interaction we can obtain a deeper awareness of landscape and our place in it – as inhabitants and as shapers. The book explores the nature of patterns and ways of classifying them before studying the nature of perception (primarily visual but including other senses), then proceeds to relate this perception to aesthetics and from there to the design process. From this point the main driving processes in landscape are introduced alongside the resulting patterns, these being climatic, landform, ecosystem and cultural aspects. It is this integrative approach of looking at landscape as a kind of self-organising system, overlaid by conscious human planning activities and the unity of pattern and process, which makes this book unique. Landscape draws from a wide range of neighbouring disciplines, of which the landscape planner or designer needs to be aware, but which are often taught as distinct elements. Bell binds these fundamentals together, which enables the landscape to be ‘read’, and this reading to be used as the basis for planning and design. This second edition updates and refreshes the original material with added sections and new photos, particularly making use of the developments in satellite photography. Featuring full colour throughout, this textbook is ideal for anyone studying landscape architecture or any of the disciplines which intersect with the landscape, and which affect it.

Mathematics

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Rapid Information Systems Development: A Non-Specialist's Guide to Analysis and Design in an Imperfect World (McGraw-Hill International Series in So)

Rapid Informations Systems Development (International Software Engineering)

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

Learning with Information Systems: Learning Cycles in Information Systems Development (Routledge Research in Information Systems)

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

Design for Outdoor Recreation

Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process