Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design

Nancy Rottle

ISBN 10: 2940411441 / ISBN 13: 9782940411443

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic Sep 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware - Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on urban environments, this book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods. It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9782940411443

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic Sep 2011
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 2940411441
• ISBN-13: 9782940411443
• Bindung: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Gives an overview of the practice of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to contemporary landscape architecture.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nancy Rottle, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, USA. She has over two decades of landscape architecture professional experience and has been teaching since 2001. Her recent scholarship, including the co-authored book Ecological Design, has focused on the application of theory and new practices to regenerate the health of urban and urbanizing environments.

Ken Yocom is an ecologist and landscape architect based in Seattle, Washington. He teaches in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Washington. Ken began his career as a wildlife ecologist working on a wide range of projects across the Pacific Northwest before migrating into landscape architecture.