The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

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The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers tips on how to develop new built environments whilst conserving natural resources. No other book presents the sort of comprehensive approach to planning that may be rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step by step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-oriented ecological how one can a new generation of students and professionals.

The Living Landscape offers

• a systematic, highly practical 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 The usa to large cities
• scores of checklists and step by step guides
• hands-on lend a hand with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues
• coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards
• more than 150 illustrations.

As Steiner emphasizes right through this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on the earth to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we will have to leave good impressions.


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