Legacy · Integration and Transformation: A Study on the Development of American Landscape Design

Author: Chen Xiaoxiao
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: History tells us that landscape activities are closely linked with social and economic development. As a developing country where the economy is just beginning to take off, China has now become a fertile ground for foreign landscape design firms and individual landscape design practices. Among them, landscape design theories and methods from the United States have had an especially strong impact on us. This book establishes a historical framework for understanding the development of American landscape design by using time as the vertical axis and landscape design and landscape design practice as the horizontal axis, comprehensively tracing the evolution of American landscape design over 400 years from the colonial period to the 1980s. Additionally, based on extensive literature research, the book analyzes and summarizes the unique path of American landscape design development, providing a more comprehensive tool for us to absorb and learn from landscape design theories and methods in the United States and Western countries. This book is suitable for professionals in landscape architecture, urban planning, construction studies, environmental art, and related fields. It can also serve as a teaching reference for senior undergraduate and graduate students in relevant disciplines at universities. At the same time, this book is also suitable for general readers interested in landscape architecture, urban planning, construction, and related fields.