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The Living Landscape, Second Edition

An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning
  • ISBN-13: 9781597263962
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Frederick R. Steiner
  • Price: AUD $134.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2008
  • Format: Paperback 496 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]
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The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner's design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals.

The Living Landscape offers


  • a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation
  • more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities
  • scores of checklists and step-by-step guides
  • hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues
  • coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards
  • more than 150 illustrations.


    As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.


  • Preface to Second Edition
    Preface to The First Edition
    Acknowledgments
     
    Chapter 1. Introduction
    Chapter 2. Identifying Issues and Establishing Planning Goals
    Chapter 3. Inventory And Analysis of the Biophysical Environment
    Chapter 4. Human Community Inventory and Analysis
    Chapter 5. Suitability Analysis
    Chapter 6. Planning Options and Choices
    Chapter 7. Landscape Plans
    Chapter 8. Continuing Citizen Involvement and Community Education
    Chapter 9. Testing Planning Concepts through Design
    Chapter 10. Plan and Design Implementation
    Chapter 11. Administration of Planning Programs
    Chapter 12. Conclusion
     
    Appendix A
    Appendix B
    Glossary
    Acronyms
    Bibliography
    Index
    "It is a must for landscape architects, engineers, or anyone involved in urban planning."
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