Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design

by Barry Starke

• ISBN13: 9781265899868
• ISBN10: 126589986X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780071797641
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780071797658
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-07-11
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL
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Table of Contents

Prologue
Foreword
Epigraph

The Hunter and the Philosopher

1. THE HUMAN HABITAT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Human Animal
Nature
The Natural Sciences
The Ecological Basis
Earthscape
Sustainability

2. CLIMATE
Climate and Response
Social Imprint
Accommodation
Microclimatology
Climate Change/Global Warming

3. WATER
Water as a Resource
Natural Systems
Management
Water-Related Site Design

4. LAND
Human Impact
Land as a Resource
Land Grants
Land Rights
Surveying
Use
Reuse
Topography
Surveys
Supplementary Data

5. VEGETATION
Topsoil Mantle
Plants in Nature
Plant Identification
Plant Culture
Introduced Plantations
Invasive Species
Vanishing Green
Urban Agriculture
Urban Forestry

6. THE VISUAL LANDSCAPE
The View
The Vista
The Axis
The Symmetrical Plan
Asymmetry
Visual Resource Management
Landscape Character
Modification
The Built Environment

7. THE PLANNED ENVIRONMENT
A Conservation Credo
Environmental Issues

8. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT
The Group Imperative
Problems
Possibilities
New Directions
Growth Management
Scatteration and Urban Sprawl
Restoration

9. THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE
Interrelationships
Regional Form
Open-Space Frame
Greenways and Blueways
The Essentials
Regional Planning
Governance

10. URBAN DESIGN
Cityscape
The City Diagram
The Ubiquitous Automobile
People Places
Urban Green, Urban Blue
The New Urbanity

11. SITE PLANNING
Program Development
Site Selection
Site Analysis
Comprehensive Land Planning
The Conceptual Plan
Computer Application
Site Development
Site-Structure Plan Development
Site-Structure Unity
Site Systems

12. SITE SPACES
Spaces
The Base Plane
The Overhead Plane
The Verticals

13. CIRCULATION
Motion
Sequence
Pedestrian Movement
The Automobile
Complete Streets
Travel by Rail, Water, and Air
People Movers

14. STRUCTURES
Common Denominators
Composition
Structures in the Landscape
The Defined Open Space
Habitations
Dwelling-Nature Relationships
Human Needs and Habitat
Residential Components

15. LANDSCAPE PLANTING
Purpose
Process
Guidelines
Advances
Landscape Plantings in Low-Impact Design

PERSPECTIVE
Disavowal and Quest
Findings
Insights
Evolution and Revolution
The Planned Experience

Retrospective

Project Credits
Quotation Sources
Bibliography

Index