The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning Paperback - 2008
by Frederick R. Steiner
From the rear 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.
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- Title The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning
- Author Frederick R. Steiner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Revised edit
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Island Press
- Date 2008-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781597263962 / 1597263966
- Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
- Dimensions 10.9 x 8.5 x 1 in (27.69 x 21.59 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Landscape architecture, Land use - Planning
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007049541
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.731
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