Outstanding explorations of design concepts, principles, and processes.

This Second Edition of Introduction to Landscape Design offers even broader coverage of the environmental, human, technological, and aesthetic issues associated with landscape design than the first edition.

Beginning with the way we perceive, manage, and design the landscape, it moves on to explore the forces that influence land design. An overview of landscape management, planning, and design includes a discussion of the roles and integration of the professions involved, modes of professional practice, and site scale design processes. The book explores the ecology of design and the integration of land design decisions into dynamic systems.

This fully updated new edition:

• Presents landscape design as a synergism of art and science
• Addresses the interplay between buildings and sites
• Provides insights into the breadth of people-environment relationships
• Places special emphasis on our growing understanding of interrelationships between the landscape and human decisions

Contents

1. CONCEPTS AND OVERVIEW

   Landscape Meanings
   Peoples, Attitudes, and Perceptions
   Education and Design Thinking

2. DESIGN INFLUENCES

   Landscape Process
   Available Resources and Technology
   Sensual Aspects of Perception
   Temporal Aspects of Perception
   Visual Arts as Ordering Mechanism
   Geometry as Ordering Mechanism
   Circulation as Ordering Mechanism
   Spatial Development
   Architecture and Site Development
   Placemaking and Community-Building

3. CONTEMPORARY DESIGN APPLICATION

   Professional Practice
   Site Design as Problem-Solving

4. THE FUTURE

   An Ecology of Design
   Landscape Design Education

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