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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780071797658
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071797658
• Author: Barry Starke (Author), John Ormsbee Simonds (Author)

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-impactdesign, 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 andorganization
• Applies contemporary thinking in the planning of expressive human habitations and communities

Table of contents:

1. THE HUMAN HABITAT AND SUSTAINABILITY

The Human Animal

Nature

The Natural Sciences

The Ecological Basis

Earthscape

Sustainability

2. CLIMATE

Climate and Response

Social Imprint

Accommodation

Microclimatology

Climate Change/Global Warming

3. WATER

Water as a Resource

Natural Systems

Management

Water-Related Site Design

4. LAND

Human Impact

Land as a Resource

Land Grants

Land Rights

Surveying

Use

Reuse

Topography

Surveys

Supplementary Data

5. VEGETATION

Topsoil Mantle

Plants in Nature

Plant Identification

Plant Culture

Introduced Plantations

Invasive Species

Vanishing Green

Urban Agriculture

Urban Forestry

6. THE VISUAL LANDSCAPE

The View

The Vista

The Axis

The Symmetrical Plan

Asymmetry

Visual Resource Management

Landscape Character

Modification

The Built Environment

7. THE PLANNED ENVIRONMENT

A Conservation Credo

Environmental Issues

8. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT

The Group Imperative

Problems

Possibilities

New Directions

Growth Management

Scatteration and Urban Sprawl

Restoration

9. THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE

Interrelationships

Regional Form

Open-Space Frame

Greenways and Blueways

The Essentials

Regional Planning

Governance

10. URBAN DESIGN

Cityscape

The City Diagram

The Ubiquitous Automobile

People Places

Urban Green, Urban Blue

The New Urbanity

11. SITE PLANNING

Program Development

Site Selection

Site Analysis

Comprehensive Land Planning

The Conceptual Plan

Computer Application

Site Development

Site-Structure Plan Development

Site-Structure Unity

Site Systems

12. SITE SPACES

Spaces

The Base Plane

The Overhead Plane

The Verticals

13. CIRCULATION

Motion

Sequence

Pedestrian Movement

The Automobile

Complete Streets

Travel by Rail, Water, and Air

People Movers

14. STRUCTURES

Common Denominators

Composition

Structures in the Landscape

The Defined Open Space

Habitations

Dwelling-Nature Relationships

Human Needs and Habitat

Residential Components

15. LANDSCAPE PLANTING

Purpose

Process

Guidelines

Advances

Landscape Plantings in Low-Impact Design

PERSPECTIVE

Disavowal and Quest

Findings

Insights

Evolution and Revolution

The Planned Experience

Retrospective

Project Credits

Quotation Sources

Bibliography

Index