The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning - Hardcover

Steiner, Frederick R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070611335 ISBN 13: 9780070611337

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1990

Synopsis

This third year/postgraduate text for courses in Landscape - or Environmental - Architecture covers the entire planning process from an ecological perspective. It is organized around a series of conventional planning steps, beginning with why to plan, including the identification of problems and opportunities; continuing through the various stages of inventory and analysis; and arriving at the adoption of a plan complete with community involvement, design, implementation, and administration. The ecological perspective of the book stresses the interrelationships between people and nature. Case studies are used to illustrate how planning has been used to address environmental issues.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A resource for tomorrow as well as today, The Living Landscape is your ecological planning action manual--one that working professionals will rely on time and again, and one that fits perfectly with the practical focus of today's urban and landscape curricula. An American Society of Landscaping Architecture Merit Award Winner, this exemplary, much-praised resource offers: a systematic, highly useful approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation; more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome from rural America to large cities; scores of checklists and step-by-step methods; hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues; coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards; more than 150 illustrations.

"A major work in the field."
--Planning, a publication of the American Planning Association.

Landscape goes deeper than appearances, and for many years famed planner Frederick Steiner's The Living Landscape has steered landscape architects and environmental planners toward meaningful, lasting values and aesthetics in design. Now this revised and updated editon of The Living Landscape offers Dr. Steiner's design-oriented ecological approach in a thoroughly practical framework for today's professionals, in today's world. In addition, The Living Landscape continues its award-winning role as a premier teaching tool for planners and architects in training.

About the Author

Frederick Steiner (Tempe, AZ) is the Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University. He holds B.S., M.C.P., M.R.P., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in planning from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Pennsylvania. As a professional planner he has managed a number of urban master plans, including Denver and Phoenix. He recently won a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Sustainable Development Program, and he was elected to the 1997-1998 Rome Prize Fellowship. Prof. Steiner is the author of hundreds of papers in addition to the first edition of this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0070611335
• ISBN 13: 9780070611337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338