Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications - Softcover

Marsh, William M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470570814 ISBN 13: 9780470570814

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, Landscape Planning Fifth Edition is an excellent resource for students in a variety of disciplines including landscape planning, geography and environmental studies. It focuses on environmental problems associated with land planning, landscape design, and land use. New coverage is included on adaptive planning as an approach necessary to build a sustainable landscape. Greater emphasis is placed on systems and updated case studies are integrated throughout the chapters. This edition also arms the student with a collection of the best management practices, which can be applied in the field.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"There is a predictable sameness creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Since the early 1970s, highways, shopping centers, residential subdivisions, and most other forms of development have taken on a remarkable similarity from coast to coast...We know that this facade of development masks an inherently diverse landscape...rooted in the varied physiographic and ecological character of the continent and this in turn reflects differences in the way the terrestrial environment functions. Does it not seem reasonable then that development and land use should also reflect these differences if they are to be responsive to the environment?" This authoritative text provides comprehensive coverage on the key methods and techniques involved in environmental planning. The third edition is extensively updated and revised to incorporate the rapid expansions taking place in this field. By focusing on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis, Marsh’s book has received much praise and is an excellent complement to Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature (Wiley, 1995).

About the Author:

William M. Marsh is the author of Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470570814
• ISBN 13: 9780470570814
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 528