Professional Architecture Series - The Landscape of Life: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

Author: Frederick Steiner [USA]
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Publish Date: 2004-04-24
Features: This book is a distillation of the author's years of teaching and practice. He uses more than 20 research cases and over 150 illustrations to demonstrate how problems from rural America to major cities are identified and solved. He proposes a highly useful systematic approach to maximizing ecological goals, social services, and citizen participation within the field of landscape planning. He guides landscape designers and environmental planners toward more meaningful, long-lasting, and aesthetically valuable designs. This book is an action manual for today and tomorrow's ecological planning, covering the latest developments and technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global sustainable standards. It provides a detailed introduction to understanding planning problems and opportunities; identifying 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. It covers a very broad range of knowledge, from planning and design disciplines to natural sciences such as environmental, geology, and ecology, as well as numerous social sciences including law, demographics, and economics.