Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design / Edition 5

by John Ormsbee Simonds, Barry Starke

Overview

For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments in the field, providing a comprehensive, current presentation of the profession.

Richly illustrated with more than 400 full-color images, Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition, explains how to plan and design for the human use of land with the least environmental impact. This updated volume offers new coverage of important topics such as sustainability, climate change, water conservation, land reuse, urban agriculture, stormwater management, low-impactdesign, and much more. This definitive reference:

• Introduces the fundamentals of site and environmental planning
• Describes the planning constraints imposed by the forms, forces, and features of nature and our built environment
• Addresses climate and its design implications
• Discusses site selection and analysis
• Instructs in the planning of workable and well-related use areas
• Describes the volumetric shaping of exterior spaces
• Explores site-structure relationships andorganization
• Applies contemporary thinking in the planning of expressive human habitations and communities

Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition, preservesthe essential character and timelessness of the original classic while incorporating up-to-date advancements in the profession.

Extensively revised and filled with more than 400 contemporary full-color images, Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition, remains the quintessential resource on planning for the human use of land in harmony with the environment. The book presents asystematic approach to the creation of more usable, efficient, and attractive outdoor spaces and places. Teaching diagrams, plans, photographs, and graphics—including the works of many of the world's leading landscape architects and firms—are featuredthroughout. This thoroughly modernized classic offers new coverage of:

• Sustainability
• Climate change and global warming
• Water preservation and water rights
• Land reuse and brownfield redevelopment
• GIS mapping
• Invasive species
• Urban agriculture and urban forestry
• Stormwater management
• Low-impact design
• Complete streets
• New Urbanism, Smart Growth, and Traditional Neighborhood Development

Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition, addresses every aspect of site and environmental planning, design, and implementation, including:

The most comprehensive, current guide to the theoryand practice of landscape architecture
• The human habitat and sustainability
• Climate
• Water
• Land
• Vegetation
• The visual landscape
• Topography
• Community planning and growth management
• Rational land use planning
• Urban design
• Site planning
• Site spaces
• Circulation
• Structures
• Landscape planting

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071797658
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/08/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Barry W. Starke has been a leader in the profession of landscape architecture for more than 40 years. He graduated with a degree in landscape architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. While at Berkeley, he was introduced to the first edition of Landscape Architecture, which became a major influence on his career. In 1974, Mr. Starke co-founded the award-winning, multidisciplinary landscape architecture and environmental design firm Earth Design Associates, Inc., and continues to serve as President. In 1988, he was elected to the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he taught Professional Practice. Mr. Starke served as the Centennial President of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999, leading ASLA's 100th-anniversary celebration. He is a Fellow of the ASLA, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and served as Chairman of the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. In 2003, Mr. Starke received the inaugural M. Meade Palmer Medal for outstanding contributions to landscape architecture. He is the 2010 recipient of the VA ASLA Landmark Award and Honor Award in Communications for the fourth edition of Landscape Architecture.

John Ormsbee Simonds, who died in May 2005, was one of the twentieth century's most important figures in landscape architecture and environmental planning. He was recognized worldwide for his visionary thinking and innovative spirit. Mr. Simonds's work and career spanned more than 70 years, bridging an era during which the profession of landscape architecture expandedfrom a small number of individuals in the early 1900s to more than 30,000 land use and environmental planners in the United States today. His many contributions, including Landscape Architecture, helped lay the groundwork for today's focus on environmentally responsible planning and design. Mr. Simonds was President and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which awarded him its highest honor, the ASLA Medal, and its one-time Centennial President's Medal. He was a member of the President's Task Force on the Environment and Florida Governor's Task Force on Natural Resources, and was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Design in Great Britain.

Table of Contents

Prologue
Foreword
Epigraph

The Hunter and the Philosopher

1. THE HUMAN HABITAT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Human Animal
Nature
The Natural Sciences
The Ecological Basis
Earthscape
Sustainability

2. CLIMATE
Climate and Response
Social Imprint
Accommodation
Microclimatology
Climate Change/Global Warming

3. WATER
Water as a Resource
Natural Systems
Management
Water-Related Site Design

4. LAND
Human Impact
Land as a Resource
Land Grants
Land Rights
Surveying
Use
Reuse
Topography
Surveys
Supplementary Data

5. VEGETATION
Topsoil Mantle
Plants in Nature
Plant Identification
Plant Culture
Introduced Plantations
Invasive Species
Vanishing Green
Urban Agriculture
Urban Forestry

6. THE VISUAL LANDSCAPE
The View
The Vista
The Axis
The Symmetrical Plan
Asymmetry
Visual Resource Management
Landscape Character
Modification
The Built Environment

7. THE PLANNED ENVIRONMENT
A Conservation Credo
Environmental Issues

8. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT
The Group Imperative
Problems
Possibilities
New Directions
Growth Management
Scatteration and Urban Sprawl
Restoration

9. THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE
Interrelationships
Regional Form
Open-Space Frame
Greenways and Blueways
The Essentials
Regional Planning
Governance

10. URBAN DESIGN
Cityscape
The City Diagram
The Ubiquitous Automobile
People Places
Urban Green, Urban Blue
The New Urbanity

11. SITE PLANNING
Program Development
Site Selection
Site Analysis
Comprehensive Land Planning
The Conceptual Plan
Computer Application
Site Development
Site-Structure Plan Development
Site-Structure Unity
Site Systems

12. SITE SPACES
Spaces
The Base Plane
The Overhead Plane
The Verticals

13. CIRCULATION
Motion
Sequence
Pedestrian Movement
The Automobile
Complete Streets
Travel by Rail, Water, and Air
People Movers

14. STRUCTURES
Common Denominators
Composition
Structures in the Landscape
The Defined Open Space
Habitations
Dwelling-Nature Relationships
Human Needs and Habitat
Residential Components

15. LANDSCAPE PLANTING
Purpose
Process
Guidelines
Advances
Landscape Plantings in Low-Impact Design

PERSPECTIVE
Disavowal and Quest
Findings
Insights
Evolution and Revolution
The Planned Experience

Retrospective

Project Credits
Quotation Sources
Bibliography

Index