Research in Landscape Architecture

Methods and Methodology
Herausgeber: Brink, Adri van den; Bell, Simon; Tobi, Hilde; Bruns, Diedrich

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at research methods that are specific to and for landscape architecture, and contributes to the further development of landscape architecture as an academic discipline in its own right.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 177mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781138020931
• ISBN-10: 1138020931
• Artikelnr.: 42743134

Autorenporträt

Adri van den Brink is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Diedrich Bruns is Professor and Chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. Hilde Tobi is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Research Methodology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Simon Bell is Professor and Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences and Associate Director of the OPENspace Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Adri van den Brink
Diedrich Bruns
Simon Bell and Hilde Tobi) Part I: Raising Awareness
1. Advancing Landscape Architecture Research (Diedrich Bruns
Adri van den Brink
Hilde Tobi and Simon Bell)
2. Research in Landscape Architecture: A Process Approach (Hilde Tobi and Adri van den Brink)
Part II: Setting the Stage
3. The Role of Theory (Ian H. Thompson)
4. The Relationship between Research and Design (Sanda Lenzholzer
Ingrid Duchhart and Adri van den Brink)
5. The Challenge of Publication (Maggie Roe)
6. Assessing Research Priorities and Quality (Jurian Meijering
Hilde Tobi
Adri van den Brink and Diedrich Bruns)
Part III: Selected Approaches and Methods
7. Case Studies (Simon Swaffield)
8. Landscape Biography (Jan Kolen
Hans Renes and Koos Bosma)
9. Social Media: The New Resource (Ron van Lammeren
Simone Theile
Boris Stemmer and Diedrich Bruns)
10. Virtual Environments (Sigrid Hehl-Lange and Eckart Lange)
11. Walking (Henrik Schulz and Rudi van Etteger)
12. Design Guidelines (Martin Prominski)
Part IV: Addressing some of the Grand Challenges
13. Cultural Landscape Meanings and Values (Ken Taylor)
14. Landscape and Health (Catharine Ward Thompson)
15. Thermally Comfortable Urban Environments (Robert D. Brown and Terry J. Gillespie)
16. The Urban Water Challenge (Antje Backhaus
Ole Fryd and Torben Dam)