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With more than 30 percent new material, thefourth edition of this classic is an indispensableresource for practicing landscape architecture professionalsas well as students. The most comprehensiveoverview of landscape architecture available, this referencecovers every aspect of planning, design, installation,implementation, and maintenance.

Landscape architects, architects, and everyone elseinvolved with the shaping of our living environment willfind in this colorful book a systematic approach to thecreation of more usable, efficient, and attractive outdoorplaces. Simply put--it is the best one-volumecourse ever written on landscape planning and landscapedesign.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Prologue(p. ix)
• Foreword(p. xi)
• The Hunter and the Philosopher(p. xv)
• 1 The Human Habitat(p. 1)
• The Human Animal(p. 1)
• Nature(p. 7)
• The Natural Sciences(p. 10)
• The Ecological Basis(p. 13)
• Earthscape(p. 15)
• 2 Climate(p. 19)
• Climate and Response(p. 19)
• Social Imprint(p. 20)
• Accommodation(p. 21)
• Global Warming(p. 21)
• Microclimatology(p. 26)
• 3 Land(p. 33)
• Human Impact(p. 33)
• Land as a Resource(p. 36)
• Land Grants(p. 38)
• Land Rights(p. 38)
• Surveying(p. 39)
• Use(p. 40)
• 4 Water(p. 43)
• Water as a Resource(p. 43)
• Natural Systems(p. 47)
• Management(p. 50)
• Water-Related Site Design(p. 54)
• 5 Vegetation(p. 61)
• Topsoil Mantle(p. 61)
• Plants in Nature(p. 62)
• Plant Identification(p. 64)
• Plant Culture(p. 65)
• Introduced Plantations(p. 67)
• Vanishing Green(p. 68)
• 6 Landscape Character(p. 71)
• The Natural Landscape(p. 71)
• Modification(p. 73)
• The Built Environment(p. 79)
• 7 Topography(p. 89)
• Representation by Contours(p. 89)
• Surveys(p. 93)
• Supplementary Data(p. 95)
• 8 Site Planning(p. 99)
• Program Development(p. 99)
• Site Selection(p. 100)
• Site Analysis(p. 102)
• Comprehensive Land Planning(p. 106)
• The Conceptual Plan(p. 112)
• Computer Application(p. 117)
• 9 Site Development(p. 121)
• Site-Structure Expression(p. 121)
• Site-Structure Plan Development(p. 133)
• Site-Structure Unity(p. 136)
• Site Systems(p. 139)
• 10 Landscape Planting(p. 145)
• Purpose(p. 145)
• Process(p. 146)
• Guidelines(p. 147)
• Advances(p. 153)
• 11 Site Volumes(p. 157)
• Spaces(p. 157)
• The Base Plane(p. 170)
• The Overhead Plane(p. 173)
• The Verticals(p. 175)
• 12 Visible Landscape(p. 187)
• The View(p. 187)
• The Vista(p. 191)
• The Axis(p. 194)
• The Symmetrical Plan(p. 200)
• Asymmetry(p. 204)
• Visual Resource Management(p. 210)
• 13 Circulation(p. 213)
• Motion(p. 213)
• Sequence(p. 224)
• Pedestrian Movement(p. 227)
• The Automobile(p. 231)
• Travel by Rail, Air, and Water(p. 240)
• People Movers(p. 245)
• 14 Structures(p. 249)
• Common Denominators(p. 249)
• Composition(p. 251)
• Structures in the Landscape(p. 259)
• The Defined Open Space(p. 261)
• 15 Habitations(p. 265)
• Dwelling-Nature Relationships(p. 265)
• Human Needs and Habitat(p. 267)
• Residential Components(p. 270)
• 16 Community Planning(p. 277)
• The Group Imperative(p. 277)
• Problems(p. 278)
• Possibilities(p. 282)
• New Directions(p. 292)
• 17 Urban Design(p. 299)
• Cityscape(p. 299)
• The City Diagram(p. 302)
• The Ubiquitous Automobile(p. 311)
• People Places(p. 312)
• Urban Green, Urban Blue(p. 313)
• The New Urbanity(p. 314)
• 18 Growth Management(p. 317)
• The Guideline Plan(p. 317)
• Scatteration and Urban Sprawl(p. 323)
• Restoration(p. 325)
• 19 The Regional Landscape(p. 333)
• Interrelationships(p. 333)
• Regional Form(p. 342)
• Open-Space Frame(p. 343)
• The Essentials(p. 345)
• Regional Planning(p. 345)
• Governance(p. 346)
• 20 The Planned Environment(p. 349)
• A Conservation Credo(p. 350)
• Environmental Issues(p. 350)
• 21 Perspective(p. 361)
• Disavowal and Quest(p. 361)
• Findings(p. 363)
• Insights(p. 364)
• Evolution and Revolution(p. 366)
• The Planned Experience(p. 367)
• Retrospective(p. 373)
• Project Credits(p. 379)
• Quotation Sources(p. 385)
• Bibliography(p. 387)
• Index(p. 389)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

John Ormsbee Simonds , who died in May 2005, was one of the 20th century's most important figures in landscape architecture and environmental planning. He was recognized worldwide for his visionary thinking and innovative spirit. Mr. Simonds' work and career spanned over 70 years, bridging an era during which the profession of landscape architecture expanded from a small number of individuals in the early 1900s to today's more than 30,000 of the most important land use and environmental planners in the United States. His many contributions, including Landscape Architecture , helped lay the groundwork for the focus on the environmentally responsible planning and design of today. Mr. Simonds was President and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which awarded him its highest honor, the ASLA Medal, and its one-time Centennial President's Medal. He was a member of the President's Task Force on the Environment and the Florida Governor's Task Force on Natural Resources, and was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Design in Great Britain.

Barry W. Starke has been a leader in the profession of landscape architecture for over 30 years. He graduated with a degree in landscape architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. While at Berkeley, he was introduced to the first edition of Landscape Architecture , which became a major influence on his career. In 1974, he co-founded the award-winning, multidisciplinary landscape architecture and environmental design firm Earth Design Associates, Inc., and continues to serve as President. In 1988, he was elected to the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he taught Professional Practice. Mr. Starke served as the Centennial President of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999, leading ASLA's 100th-anniversary celebration. He is a Fellow of the ASLA, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and currently serves as vice-chair of the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. In 2003, Mr. Starke received the inaugural M. Meade Palmer Medal from the Virginia Chapter of the ASLA for outstanding contributions to landscape architecture.