Botanical Garden Planning and Design

Author: Yu Shuxun (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: This book is one of China's authoritative works on botanical gardens. It is divided into 10 parts: Overview of Botanical Gardens, Categories of Botanical Gardens, Planning of Botanical Gardens, Landscape Design and Art of Botanical Gardens, Review of Botanical Gardens' Operations and Organizational Structure, Science Popularization Activities in Botanical Gardens, Scientific Research Work in Botanical Gardens, Introduction to Foreign and Famous Botanical Gardens, Examples of Botanical Garden Landscapes, and Botanical Gardens in China. The book emphasizes both theory and practice, with rich illustrations and text, offering strong reasoning. It also includes the latest images and data from both domestic and international sources. The book provides a detailed statistical and introduction to the current status of famous botanical gardens in China and the world: it highlights how botanical gardens today serve as excellent destinations for leisure and knowledge acquisition; it discusses the importance of botanical gardens in beautifying human living spaces and improving quality of life. This book is suitable for botanical garden and garden designers, architects, landscape architects, and urban planners, as well as for reference by faculty and students in colleges and universities.