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This book covers all aspects of landscape architecture from the selection of the site to the completed project. It explains what sensitive and sensible landscape planning is, why and how it can enrich our lives and what has been lost through its neglect. The author, J. O. Simonds, draws on his vast practical and theoretical experience to explain landscape techniques in simple, clear and practical terms.
Within its pages, the book introduces the forms, forces and features of natural and man-made landscapes; discusses site selection, site analysis and the principles of site planning; deals with the planning of workable and well related use areas; considers, in terms of use, form, materials and colour, the creation of meaningful spaces; examines the planning of optimum site-structure relationships; explores at length the design of structures and spaces in relation to pedestrian and motor traffic; describes the design of a planned community; and reappraises the city...
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Fülszöveg
About this book
This book covers all aspects of landscape architecture from the selection of the site to the completed project. It explains what sensitive and sensible landscape planning is, why and how it can enrich our lives and what has been lost through its neglect. The author, J. O. Simonds, draws on his vast practical and theoretical experience to explain landscape techniques in simple, clear and practical terms.
Within its pages, the book introduces the forms, forces and features of natural and man-made landscapes; discusses site selection, site analysis and the principles of site planning; deals with the planning of workable and well related use areas; considers, in terms of use, form, materials and colour, the creation of meaningful spaces; examines the planning of optimum site-structure relationships; explores at length the design of structures and spaces in relation to pedestrian and motor traffic; describes the design of a planned community; and reappraises the city and the region in terms of planning a more efficient, productive and pleasant environment for man.
Various chapters deal with Fundamentals, The Site, Organization of Spaces, Visual Aspects of Plan Arrangement, Circulation, Structures in the Landscape and Planning the Region. A comprehensive index completes the book which is abundantly illustrated throughout with line drawings and half-tone photographs.
Architects, city planners, landscape architects—or anyone planning a structure, a garden, a park, or a city, or any other project in the all embracing landscape—will find " Landscape Architecture " a definitive and authoritative source of ideas on site planning. 244 pages
Jacket photo of Richard Nentra's desert house is by Julius Schidman
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