Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design - (Second Edition)

Author: (Eng) Tom Turner
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: As society becomes wealthier, people desire better landscapes, but often this leads to more environmental destruction. Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design teaches us how to reverse this trend. The author, a city planner and landscape architect, believes that "whether in cities or the countryside, people need certain places where they can safely stroll, pick fruits, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to birds singing, bask in the sun, wander through forests, and relax by cool waters. Some places need to be lively, while others need solitude. Rivers need to break free from their dull concrete channels and dirty ditches, presenting themselves in new ways. Quarries also need to be redeveloped as part of new landscape planning. Forests provide us with recreational spaces and timber, while also considering the needs of car owners. Old cities need revitalization, and new towns are being built. Farmers need to protect and restore the rural landscape while planting crops." This new, fully upgraded edition is divided into two parts. Part One includes "Planning," a new addition to this edition, focusing on the "public interest" that can be gained from outdoor landscapes through good planning. The second part includes "Environmental Impact Design," with new chapters on "Transportation" and "Agriculture," as well as updates on public open spaces, reservoirs, mines, forests, urbanization, rivers, and floods. The book includes a comprehensive appendix on environmental impact design issues, fully illustrated with line drawings and photographs. It will serve as a fundamental reading for students in urban planning, landscape architecture, and environmental assessment, as well as urban planners, landscape architects, and environmental assessors.