Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design / Edition 1

by Tom Turner

Overview

Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857283228
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Series:	Natural and Built Environment Series , #11
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Turner

Table of Contents

Preface PART 1 Landscape Planning 1 Will planning die? 2 Landscape plans 3 Context theories PART 2 Environmental Impact Design 4 Public open space 5 Reservoirs 6 Mineral working 7 Agriculture 8 Forests 9 Rivers and floods 10 Transport 11 Urbanization Appendix: Environmental impact questions

Editorial Reviews

Balancing on a lovely rock wall separating environmental and development concerns, the author focuses on the long-term and high- level concepts which should lead to and inspire the planning process: beauty, harmony, composition, sustainability, health, and spirituality. Part one reviews the ideals and plans which guide the conservation and development of fine landscape and considers the laws and theories of context. The second part covers environmental impact design in the areas of public open space, reservoirs, mineral working, agriculture, forest, rivers and floods, transport, and urbanization. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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