Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design

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Автор: Barry Starke, John Ormsbee Simonds

Название: Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design

Издательство: McGraw-Hill Education

Год: 2013

Формат: pdf

Размер: 33,1 Мб

Страниц: 430

Язык: английский

Полное руководство по теории и практике ландшафтной архитектуры. Ландшафтная архитектура, пятое издание, объясняет, как планировать и оформлять дизайн для использования земли человеком с наименьшим воздействием на окружающую среду. Это обновленное издание предлагает новый подход к важным вопросам, таким, как устойчивость, изменение климата, сохранение водных ресурсов, повторное использование земель, сельское хозяйство в городах, дизайн и многое другое.

The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architecture

For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments in the field, providing a comprehensive, current presentation of the profession.

Richly illustrated with more than 400 full-color images, Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition, explains how to plan and design for the human use of land with the least environmental impact. This updated volume offers new coverage of important topics such as sustainability, climate change, water conservation, land reuse, urban agriculture, stormwater management, low-impact design, and much more. This definitive reference:

Introduces the fundamentals of site and environmental planning

Describes the planning constraints imposed by the forms, forces, and features of nature and our built environment

Addresses climate and its design implications

Discusses site selection and analysis

Instructs in the planning of workable and well-related use areas

Describes the volumetric shaping of exterior spaces

Explores site-structure relationships and organization

Applies contemporary thinking in the planning of expressive human habitations and communities