Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on urban environments, this book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods. It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes.

Author: Nancy Rottle, Ken Yocom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 08/22/2011
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9782940411443
ISBN10: 2940411441
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Landscape

About the Author

Nancy Rottle has focused most of her professional and academic life on the pedagogy and practice of ecological design and planning in landscape architecture. In addition to over a decade of teaching ecological and sustainable design courses, she founded and directs the Green Futures Lab in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments.

Ken Yocom is an ecologist and landscape architect based in Seattle, Washington. He teaches in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Washington. Ken began his career as a wildlife ecologist working on a wide range of projects across the Pacific Northwest before migrating into landscape architecture.