Road Landscape Science

Author: Zhang Yang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book focuses on elaborating the theoretical foundations and design methods that should be possessed in highway landscape design. The content includes: the meaning, composition, and characteristics of highway landscape; the disciplines and specialties involved in this research field; the purpose and significance of the research; the current research status domestically and internationally; human cognition of highway landscape environment; the principles of formal beauty and the fundamentals of color theory; highway landscape environmental evaluation methods; highway landscape planning and design theory; landscape design of highway alignment and line shapes; landscape design of highway facilities and structures along the route; highway greening landscape design; landscape protection, utilization, and design along the highway; and case analysis of highway landscape design. The entire book is divided into three parts. Part I is the theoretical part of highway landscape studies, Part II is the design part of highway landscape studies, and Part III is the design case part.