Sustainable Site Design introduces the core concepts of sustainability as applied to landscape architecture. Focusing on site-scale design, this book provides a regional framework for integrating sustainable practices throughout the design process. From landscape analysis to program and design development, each design phase is illustrated with detailed case studies covering a broad range of innovative built landscape architectural projects.
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"Written to serve as a textbook and reference for those in the field of landscape architecture and community planning, the purpose of this volume is to address the environmental and societal needs relating to the development of a sustainable landscape. Heavily illustrated with photographs and design plans, the publication contains a valuable glossary and bibliography." (Chicago Botanic Garden, 2010)
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A new framework for designing sustainable landscapes that respond to the opportunities and challenges of their surrounding regions
From project inception through implementation, Sustainable Site Design sets forth a comprehensive approach to context-informed sustainable landscape design. This approach emphasizes the need to understand each site's unique potential for sustainability, especially in relation to the ecological, social, economic, and cultural conditions of its regional setting. The book aims to integrate the concerns of regenerative landscape function with the quest for memorable, meaningful form.
Chapter 1 introduces the framework, developing a set of five criteria to help you define the sustainable outcomes for any landscape design project: connectivity, purpose, meaning, efficiency, and stewardship. The remaining chapters address six essential questions to guide the design process to fulfill these criteria:
What people, resources, and strategies help guide sustainable site programming?
How are the needs of project stakeholders incorporated into project scoping and direction?
What site design potentials are revealed by the site-to-context relationship?
How is sustainable design articulated through cohesive, artful, and well-crafted forms and space?
How does design efficiency serve multiple goals in sustainable landscape design?
How can design incorporate meaning to connect user and place?
In addition to offering strategies and methods that address these questions, each chapter is centered on a detailed and heavily illustrated case study of a built landscape architectural project. These case studies represent a broad range of design styles, scales, locations, and programs.
Following the authors' careful guidance, you'll learn the principles and processes needed to design landscapes that are not only sustainable, but also meet the needs of the communities they serve.
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Sustainable itself!,
This review is from: Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Process, and Case Studies for Integrating Site and Region in Landscape Design (Hardcover)
As a landscape architect employed by a firm that prides itself in the practice of sustainable design, I was eager to dig into its contents to confirm whether it was worth the purchase or if it was another book capitalizing on the popularity of the topic. It was not the latter. I find it not only has the relevance a practicing professional will find applicable to today's design problems, but in many ways its lessons are grounded in principles one may apply in the future. Sustainability, however one defines it, has a common denominator of timelessness. This book has that and because it is like-minded in its approach, we find solace in referencing it often. Worth the purchase.
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excellent resource,
This review is from: Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Process, and Case Studies for Integrating Site and Region in Landscape Design (Hardcover)
I found this text to be an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning, teaching, or practicing sustainable landscape architecture, integrated urban/regional/community planning, etc. The case study format gives an in-depth, hands-on approach within an overarching framework of integrated, sustainable design. The size is perfect--detailed yet concise, with abundant, instructive, and visually pleasing graphics.
Thanks to the authors for a refreshing & bold new approach!
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