Landscape Architecture 5th Ed.

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The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architecture

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-impact design, 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 and organization
• Applies contemporary thinking in the planning of expressive human habitations and communities

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

PUBLISHER: McGraw Hill Professional, 2013

ISBN/ISBN 13: 0071797653, 9780071797658