Introductory Landscape Architecture (2nd Edition)

By Alex Laurie and Michael Laurie

Written by a professor/practitioner of landscape architecture, this classic text provides an introduction to the theories, techniques, methods, and history of ecological planning, site planning, and landscape design. KEY TOPICS: Offers a broad perspective on ecological analysis, conservation, landscape planning and environmental impact, site planning and landscape design, human and natural factors, microclimate, planting design, landscape engineering, and a short history of parks, gardens, housing and conservation movements. MARKET: For students in introductory courses in landscape architecture, architecture, city and regional planning, or landscape horticulture, and for professionals involved in related disciplines.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135007526
• ISBN13: 9780135007525
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

The Ecological Cycles that composes the Enviroment

This book is the base for the practice and teaching the Enviromental Drawing. There are essays and study cases about the necessity of considering the city health and the ecological processes when planning the Landscape. Taking the man as the principal subject, he tells a little bit about the Lanscape Architecture - since Olmstead, and and earlier intentions of treating the landscape that came from the first civilizations through the time. It's also rich considering the elements of the ecological cýcles that composes the enviroment - like the microclimate, the human and the natural actions, focusing on each important agent of the landscape, and giving examples of "how to feel" each case study, as an example for other situations.