This text focuses on environmental problems associated with land planning, landscape design and land use. It is designed for the science student interested in understanding how the environment relates to planning problems as well as being a valuable reference for the professional in planning and design.
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"Marsh (U. of British Columbia and emeritus U. of Michigan) presents the 25th anniversary edition of his textbook and guide explaining how to deal reasonably with the land in the face of expanding land use and changing technology. Most readers will be in the early stages of their career, he suggests, and he hopes to establish some basic principles they can adapt and apply for a long time." (Book News Inc, November 2010)
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"There is a predictable sameness creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Since the early 1970s, highways, shopping centers, residential subdivisions, and most other forms of development have taken on a remarkable similarity from coast to coast…We know that this facade of development masks an inherently diverse landscape…rooted in the varied physiographic and ecological character of the continent and this in turn reflects differences in the way the terrestrial environment functions. Does it not seem reasonable then that development and land use should also reflect these differences if they are to be responsive to the environment?" This authoritative text provides comprehensive coverage on the key methods and techniques involved in environmental planning. The third edition is extensively updated and revised to incorporate the rapid expansions taking place in this field. By focusing on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis, Marsh’s book has received much praise and is an excellent complement to Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature (Wiley, 1995).
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book,
This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
This book was a great tool for the beginning landscape architect. Many great tools for land planning including equations and tables and charts to determine various things like water runoff, erosion, sun exposure, and much more.
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Where Physical Geography & Env. Planning share common ground,
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This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
This may be one of the best introductions to environmental planning for geography students interested in the application of physical geographic techniques. When inquiring minds ask how a Geography major like myself ended up doing septic plan review as a county Environmental Health Specialist I simply point to Marsh's chapter on waste disposal and describe the necessary physical parameters familiar to physical geographers (soil types and percolation rates, groundwater levels, slopes and topography, surface water, geohazards, mapping, etc). There is something for everybody in this book and you don't have to be a geography major to benefit. A very practical text.
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excellent book!,
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This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications (Paperback)
I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually just read this entire book cramming for an Environmental Planning exam (I was originally just going to skim some chapters). I wish I'd been reading it all along! There's a lot of cross-over with a Geology class I'm taking too.
Chapter 3 is one of the best explanations of the form/function(process) relationship in terms of the environment that I've ever read. I also found Chapter 9 very insightful concerning drainage basins. The diagrams and pictures are incredible. There is just enough technical scientific detail in the book to get a really good understanding of processes without overloading you with too many complicated equations.
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A predictable sameness is creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New York, Canadian Shield, Great Plains, British Columbia, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rocky Mountains, Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Government Printing Office, San Francisco, Blue Ridge, Central Lowlands, Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Plains, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, Mississippi River, Nova Scotia, American South, Colorado River, Puget Sound, Black Canyon, Delavan Lake, East Clayton New!
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A predictable sameness is creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New York, Canadian Shield, Great Plains, British Columbia, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rocky Mountains, Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Government Printing Office, San Francisco, Blue Ridge, Central Lowlands, Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Plains, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, Mississippi River, Nova Scotia, American South, Colorado River, Puget Sound, Black Canyon, Delavan Lake, East Clayton New!
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- Great Plains by Ian Frazier on page 28, and page 29
- Applied Hydrology by Ven Chow on page 184
- Boundary Layer Climates by T. R. Oke on page 338
- Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada by Stephen S. Birdsall on page 53
- The Urban Environment by John Fien A. Andrews on page 318
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- Site Analysis: Linking Program and Concept in Land Planning and Design by James A. LaGro on 5 pages
- Environmental Geography: Science, Land Use, and Earth Systems, 3rd Edition by William M. Marsh in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Planning for Biodiversity: Issues And Examples by Sheila Peck in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ecological Design and Planning (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design) by George F. Thompson on page 43, and page 225
- Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design) by Forster Ndubisi on page 241, and Back Matter
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