Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:

Published at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sustainable Landscape Construction took a new approach to what was then a nearly new subject: how to construct outdoor environments based on principles of sustainability. This enormously influential book helped to spur a movement that has taken root around the U.S. and throughout the world. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important developments in this landscape revolution, along with the latest scientific research in the field. It has been expanded to provide even more ideas for designing, building, and maintaining environmentally sensitive landscapes. It is essential reading for everyone with an interest in "green" landscape design.



Like its predecessor, the new edition of Sustainable Landscape Construction is organized around principles that reflect the authors' desire to put environmental ethics into practice. Each chapter focuses on one over-arching idea. These principles of sustainability are clearly articulated and are developed through specific examples. More than 100 projects from around the globe are described and illustrated. A new chapter details ways in which landscape architectural practice must respond to the dangers posed by fire, floods, drought, extreme storms, and climate change.



Sustainable Landscape Construction is a crucial complement to basic landscape construction texts, and is a one-of-a-kind reference for professionals, students, and concerned citizens.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface: The Why, What and How of the Second Edition
• Why a New Edition?
• What's New in This Edition?
• How to Use This Book
• Acknowledgements
• Contacting the Authors
• Introduction: "Sustainability" in Context
• Chapter 1 Principle 1: Keep Healthy Sites Healthy
• Chapter 2 Principle 2: Heal Injured Sites
• Chapter 3 Principle 3: Favor Living, Flexible Materials
• Chapter 4 Principle 4: Respect the Waters of Life
• Chapter 5 Principle 5: Pave Less
• Chapter 6 Principle 6: Consider Origin & Fate Of Materials
• Chapter 7 Principle 7: Know the Costs of Energy over Time
• Chapter 8 Principle 8: Celebrate Light, Respect Darkness
• Chapter 9 Principle 9: Quietly Defend Silence
• Chapter 10 Principle 10: Maintain to Sustain
• Conclusions and Beginnings
• Notes
• Index

Reseñas proporcionadas por Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This book emphasizes sustainable landscape principles; it is not a how-to book with detailed step-by-step instructions on constructing individual components of a landscape, such as retaining walls. Instead, Thompson (editor, Landscape Architecture) and Sorvig (Univ. of New Mexico) offer ideas on how to adapt to new situations, materials, regulations, and client demands, along the lines of environmental stewardship. The book discusses principles such as the protection of sites prior to construction, restoration of damaged landscapes, the use of living materials in construction instead of strictly engineering hard structures, protection of water resources, alternatives to paving, the origin of building materials, the influences of design on energy use, light and noise pollution, and sustainable maintenance. Compared to the first edition (CH, Apr'01, 38-4460), which this reviewer has read cover to cover, this work contains vastly expanded discussions on green roofs--a concept that has grown immensely in the US since the first edition was published in 2000--as well as global warming. Each chapter still offers resource lists of organizations, Web sites, publications, and suppliers for additional information. The book is essential for landscape architects, engineers, contractors, or anyone involved in landscaping. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers/libraries. B. Rowe Michigan State University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

J. William Thompson is story editor for Landscape Architecture , the magazine

of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Kim Sorvig is a research assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, and co-author of the Sustainable Building Technical Manual , published by the U.S. Green Building Council.