Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability
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Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability

Creating Positive Change Through Design

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability

Creating Positive Change Through Design

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About This Book

Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017
Winner of the AILA VIC Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017
Highly Commended (Communication and Presentation) Landscape Institute Awards 2018 Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potential routes to addressing them. The book covers essential concepts of landscape architecture and environmental sustainability, including: - Ecology, multifunctional landscapes and sensitive intervention
- Remediation, cleansing and environmental infrastructure
- Social sustainability, design activism and healthy landscapes
- Food systems, productive landscapes and transportation
- Performance ratings, materials and life cycles Through case studies from around the world and interviews with leading landscape architects and practitioners, this book invites discussion about possible future scenarios, relevant theories and project responses in landscape environmental design. With hundreds of color images throughout the book, and additional study material in the companion website, Joshua Zeunert provides an overview of the multidimensional qualities of landscape sustainability.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Year
2017
ISBN
9781472590633
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 an introduction
  4. 2 Landscape and Ecology
  5. 3 Landscape as Cleanser
  6. 4 Environmental Infrastructure
  7. 5 Landscape and Food
  8. 6 Landscape Activism, Art and Beauties
  9. 7 Social Sustainability: Influence Beyond Site
  10. 8 Less is More: A Lighter Touch
  11. 9 Landscape and Performance
  12. 10 Scenarios, Challenges and Reframing Land(scape)
  13. Glossary
  14. Resources
  15. index
  16. acknowledgments
  17. Image credits