Publication Date: June 26, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0071461205 | ISBN-13: 978-0071461207 | Edition: 4
With more than 30 percent new material, the fourth edition of this classic is an indispensable resource for practicing landscape architecture professionals as well as students. The most comprehensive overview of landscape architecture available, this reference covers every aspect of planning, design, installation, implementation, and maintenance.
Landscape architects, architects, and everyone else involved with the shaping of our living environment will find in this colorful book a systematic approach to the creation of more usable, efficient, and attractive outdoor places. Simply put--it is the best one-volume course ever written on landscape planning and landscape design.
From the Back Cover
400 MAGNIFICENT FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
INCORPORATE HARMONY AND SUSTAINABILITY INTO LAND PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN
This completely updated modern classic provides a systematic approach to the creation of more usable, efficient, aesthetically pleasing outdoor spaces and places. Readers will find hundreds of teaching diagrams, plans, photographs, and graphics -- including the works of many of the world's leading landscape architects and firms.
Offering unparalleled coverage of every aspect of the theory, application, and practice of landscape architecture, this reference belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in how people and the environment can be brought into greater accord.
Unquestionably the best way to keep pace with the latest thinking in environmental planning and landscape design, the new Fourth Edition covers:
The fundamentals of landscape and environmental planning
Nature as the all-embracing framework
Topography and earth modeling
Treatment of wetlands, waterways, and water bodies
And more
From the basics of using the natural landscape as the ecological basis for all land use planning to breakthrough methods for designing habitations and communities, Landscape Architecture provides step-by-step procedures for:
Selecting and analyzing sites
Assessing environmental impact
Developing detailed designs
Product Details
Hardcover: 396 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 4 edition (June 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071461205
ISBN-13: 978-0071461207
