Landscape of Life: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

Author: Frederick Steiner
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is a distillation of the author's years of teaching and practice. Using more than 20 research cases and over 150 illustrations, it demonstrates how problems from rural America to major cities are identified and solved. It proposes a systematic, highly useful method in the field of landscape planning to maximize ecological goals, social services, and citizen participation. It guides landscape designers and environmental planners toward more meaningful, long-lasting, and aesthetically valuable designs. This book serves as an action manual for ecological planning today and in the future, covering the latest developments and technologies such as geographic information systems and global sustainable standards. It provides detailed introductions on recognizing planning problems and opportunities; defining planning goals; regional-scale landscape analysis; local-scale landscape analysis; detailed analysis; planning concepts and proposals; landscape planning; community participation and civic education; design proposals; and the steps, methods, and principles of planning and design implementation, along with numerous vivid case studies. Its scope of knowledge is very broad, ranging from planning and design disciplines to natural sciences like environmental, geographical, and ecological studies, as well as numerous social sciences such as law, demographics, and economics. This book is a distillation of the author's years of teaching and practice, using more than 20 research cases and over 150 illustrations to demonstrate how problems from rural America to major cities are identified and solved. It proposes a systematic, highly useful method in the field of landscape planning to maximize ecological goals, social services, and citizen participation, guiding landscape designers and environmental planners toward more meaningful, long-lasting, and aesthetically valuable designs. This book serves as an action manual for ecological planning today and in the future, covering the latest developments and technologies such as geographic information systems and global sustainable standards. It provides detailed introductions on recognizing planning problems and opportunities; defining planning goals; regional-scale landscape analysis; local-scale landscape analysis; detailed analysis; planning concepts and proposals; landscape planning; community participation and civic education; design proposals; and the steps, methods, and principles of planning and design implementation, along with numerous vivid case studies. Its scope of knowledge is very broad, ranging from planning and design disciplines to natural sciences like environmental, geographical, and ecological studies, as well as numerous social sciences such as law, demographics, and economics. This book is a distillation of the author's years of education and practice, serving as a reference for professional designers and an important reference for urban and landscape planning courses.