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Overview
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.
Editorial Reviews
Planning Magazine
"What makes this more than just another weighty planning treatise is the intellectual energy expended in placing planning activities into an overall framework. It''s not just one damn thing after another. ....Don''t miss this wonderful work of synthesis."
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"It is a must for landscape architects, engineers, or anyone involved in urban planning...Recommended."
— B. Rowe
Planning Magazine
"What makes this more than just another weighty planning treatise is the intellectual energy expended in placing planning activities into an overall framework. It's not just one damn thing after another. ....Don't miss this wonderful work of synthesis."
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Meet the Author
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).