The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning - Paperback

by Frederick R. Steiner (Author)

The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner's design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals.

The Living Landscape offers

- a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation
- more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities
- scores of checklists and step-by-step guides
- hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues
- coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards
- more than 150 illustrations.

As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.

Back Jacket

A resource for tomorrow as well as today, "The Living Landscape" is your ecological planning action manual--one that working professionals will rely on time and again, and one that fits perfectly with the practical focus of today's urban and landscape curricula. An American Society of Landscaping Architecture Merit Award Winner, this exemplary, much-praised resource offers: a systematic, highly useful approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation; more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome from rural America to large cities; scores of checklists and step-by-step methods; hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues; coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards; more than 150 illustrations.

"A major work in the field."
--"Planning," a publication of the American Planning Association.

Landscape goes deeper than appearances, and for many years famed planner Frederick Steiner's "The Living Landscape" has steered landscape architects and environmental planners toward meaningful, lasting values and aesthetics in design. Now this revised and updated editon of "The Living Landscape" offers Dr. Steiner's design-oriented ecological approach in a thoroughly practical framework for today's professionals, in today's world. In addition, "The Living Landscape" continues its award-winning role as a premier teaching tool for planners and architects in training.

Author Biography

Frederick Steiner is Dean and Henry M. Rockwell Chair, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead and The Essential Ian McHarg (Island Press).