Life's Landscape—Ecological Approaches to Landscape Planning (Second Edition)

Author: (American) Steiner, translated by Zhan Nianxing et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-04-24
Features: This book is a distillation of the author's years of teaching and practical experience. Using more than 20 research cases and over 150 illustrations, it demonstrates how problems from rural America to major cities are identified and solved. The author 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 serves as an action manual for ecological planning today and in the future, covering the latest developments and technologies such as geographic information systems and global sustainable standards. It provides detailed introductions on recognizing planning problems and opportunities; defining planning goals; regional-scale landscape analysis; local-scale landscape analysis; detailed analysis; planning concepts and proposals; landscape planning; community participation and civic education; design solutions; and the steps, methods, and principles of planning and design implementation, along with numerous vivid case studies. The scope of knowledge covered is very broad, ranging from planning and design disciplines to environmental, geographical, and ecological natural sciences, as well as law, population, and economics in numerous social sciences. This book is a distillation of the author's years of teaching and practical experience, using more than 20 research cases and over 150 illustrations to demonstrate how problems from rural America to major cities are identified and solved. The author 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 serves as an action manual for ecological planning today and in the future, covering the latest developments and technologies such as geographic information systems and global sustainable standards. It provides detailed introductions on recognizing planning problems and opportunities; defining planning goals; regional-scale landscape analysis; local-scale landscape analysis; detailed analysis; planning concepts and proposals; landscape planning; community participation and civic education; design solutions; and the steps, methods, and principles of planning and design implementation, along with numerous vivid case studies. The scope of knowledge covered is very broad, ranging from planning and design disciplines to environmental, geographical, and ecological natural sciences, as well as law, population, and economics in numerous social sciences. This book is a distillation of the author's years of education and practice, serving as a reference for professional designers and an important resource for urban and landscape planning courses.