[PDF] Ecological Design And Planning eBook

Author : Forster Ndubisi
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 080187775X

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Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Ecological planning is the process of understanding, evaluating, and providing options for the use of landscape to ensure a better fit with human habitation. In this ambitious analysis, Forster Ndubisi provides a succinct historical and comparative account of the various approaches to this process. He then reveals how each of these approaches offers different and uniquely useful perspectives for understanding the dialogue between human and environmental processes. Ndubisi begins by examining the philosophies behind and major contributors to ecological thinking during the past 150 years, as well as the paradigm shift in planning that occurred in recent decades as a result of a growing global ecological awareness. He then turns to landscape suitability analysis and discusses alternative approaches to ecological planning, such as applied human ecology, applied landscape ecology, and others. Finally, he offers a comparative synthesis of the approaches in order to reveal the theoretical and methodological assumptions inherent when planners choose one approach over the other. Ndubisi concludes that no one approach can by itself adequately address the whole spectrum of ecological planning issues. For this reason he offers guidance as to when it may be appropriate for landscape architects and planners to emphasize one approach rather than another.

Author : Danilo Palazzo
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610912268

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This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies. In essence, it presents a "how-to" method to transform the urban landscape that is thoroughly informed by theory and practice. The authors note that urban design is viewed as an interface between different disciplines. They describe the field as "peacefully overrun, invaded, and occupied" by city planners, architects, engineers, and landscape architects (with developers and politicians frequently joining in). They suggest that environmental concerns demand the consideration of ecology and sustainability issues in urban design. It is, after all, the urban designer who helps to orchestrate human relationships with other living organisms in the built environment. The overall objective of the book is to reinforce the role of the urban designer as an honest broker and promoter of design processes and as an active agent of social creativity in the production of the public realm.

Author : Jala Makhzoumi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135809224

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The authors of this book offer an holistic methodological approach to the design and planning of landscape, based on both research and practical experience.

Author : Forster O. Ndubisi
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610914901

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From Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural environment to accommodate our daily needs for food, work, shelter, and recreation are greatly intensified. Concerted efforts to balance human use with ecological concerns are needed now more than ever. A rich body of literature on the effect of human actions on the natural environment provides a window into what we now refer to as ecological design and planning. The study and practice of ecological design and planning provide a promising way to manage change in the landscape so that human actions are more in tune with natural processes. In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader Professor Ndubisi offers refreshing insights into key themes that shape the theory and practice of ecological design and planning. He has assembled, synthesized, and framed selected seminal published scholarly works in the field from the past one hundred and fifty years——ranging from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow to Anne Whiston Spirn’s, “Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities.” The reader ends with a hopeful look forward, which suggests an agenda for future research and analysis in ecological design and planning. This is the first volume to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the history, evolution, theory, methods, and exemplary practice of ecological design and planning. The collection provides students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and our natural environment.

Author : Travis Beck
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1597267023

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This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape.

Author : George F. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Addressing the central controversy of ecological landscape and design planning the authors conclude that the polarity of care for the environment and pure aesthetic consideration has to be harmonised, and that both are justifiably pertinent.

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9781558443471

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"A compilation of essays by leading international landscape architects, city planners, urban designers, and architects about the need for ecological urban design. Chapters explore the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities, including urban green spaces, streetscapes, and buildings"--

Author : Nancy Rottle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2940411441

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Gives an overview of the practice of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to contemporary landscape architecture.

Author : Fred A. Stitt
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1999-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780070614994

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A collection of "green" writings which provide an overview of ecological design in architecture and planning.

Author : Wenche Dramstad
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Landscape ecology - the ecology of large heterogeneous areas, landscapes, regions, or simply of land mosaics, has rapidly emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning is an essential handbook that presents and explains principles of landscape ecology and provides numerous examples of how those principles can be applied in specific situations.