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Gateway Sites gather together a large number of links to other sites based on a common topic. They are also called Meta Sites and One Stop Sites. They can save time that would otherwise be spent trawling the Internet for useful information and, if they are reputable, provide a seal of approval of the sites included. Some One Stop Sites are suggested below. Architecture and Building "Topics covered by this guide include architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Types of listings range from discussion groups to electronic publications to databases -- and of course a wide variety of web sites. This is a selective guide. Links to more comprehensive link collections are included. For some topics just one or two sites with good links to the net resources in that topic are listed. Although the emphasis is on quality sites, sometimes sites that are currently not well-developed but show promise of being so are included." From the University of Nevada Landscape Information Hub (LIH) Intended for landscape architecture teachers, learners, and practitioners. Includes descriptions of landscape design and planning projects as well as web links and print sources organized in topical subject guides. UK emphasis. From the Univ. of Greenwich Sapling: Architecture, Planning & Landscape Information Gateway "The core of the site is a searchable database with more than 1,000 reviewed links to architecture, planning and landscape websites from around the world". Reviewed links are organised into more than a dozen themed gateways -among them Architecture, Culture, Heritage, Landscape, Planning, Regeneration, Sustainability, Transport, Urban Design . UK-basedbut has a global perspective. Gardens, Gardening & Garden Links : The WWW Virtual Library for ...Links to Web resources, discussion areas, botanic gardens, ... over 2100 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture. Garden History Links by Edwinna von Baeyer, landscape historian. Edwinna von Baeyer has put her 30 years of experience researching and writing landscape histories into writing this guide to sites "devoted" to garden and landscape history. She points out that "The sites are uneven -- some are more informative than others" A huge list of sites all over the world. Good for Canadian sites. Greenroofs.com: The Resource Portal for Green Roofs Information about green roof architecture including history, advantages and issues, plant lists, markets in North America and Europe, case studies, eventsIntute: Arts and Humanties.Includes resources for ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway. Extensive lists of Architecture and landscape architecture and environmental design including links to free e-journals. archINFORM "This database for international architecture, originally emerging from
records of interesting building projects from architecture students,
has meanwhile become the largest online-database about worldwide
architects and buildings from past to present.
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