Nancy Rottle, Ken Yocom

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on urban environments, this book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods. It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782940447114
• Artikelnr.: 46760232

Autorenporträt

Nancy Rottle, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, USA. She has over two decades of landscape architecture professional experience and has been teaching since 2001. Her recent scholarship, including the co-authored book Ecological Design, has focused on the application of theory and new practices to regenerate the health of urban and urbanizing environments.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. What is ecological design?: Defining ecological design
Why urban?
An emerging practice
Integrating science and design
Olympic Sculpture Park. Systems: The structure and function of systems
Systems hierarchy
Types of systems
Green infrastructure systems
Ecosystem health and diversity
Waitakere and Twin Streams. Landscape dynamics: The form and function of landscapes
Dynamic equilibrium and resilience
Resilient + sustainable + regenerative design
Port Lands Estuary. Project processes: Design processes for ecosystem health
Implementing a framework
Civic participation
Stewardship
Freshkills Park. Operations: Protect/Conserve/Reuse
Scaffold/Structure/Initiate
Catalyse/Seed/Regenerate
Stratify/Layer/Strengthen
Regulate/Contain/Collect
Sieve/Filter/Cleanse
Metabolize/Digest/Remediate
Mimic/Copy/Imitate
Synthesize/Connect/Integrate
Reveal/Immerse/Teach. Places: Region and watershed
Netherlands Green Heart
Community
Portland, Oregon
Neighbourhoods
High Point
Streets
SW Montgomery Street
Parks and trails
Barry Curtis Park
Site/Parcel
'Green Factor' programmes. Conclusion. Taking it further. Bibliography. Contacts and useful resources. Index. Acknowledgements and picture credits. Working with ethics.