An Introduction to Landscape Architecture

by Michael Laurie

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444009701
• ISBN13: 9780444009708
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

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.