Environmental Sciences

Landscape Planning

Edited by Murat Ozyavuz, ISBN 978-953-51-0654-8, Hard cover, 360 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published June 13, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/2761

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes: urban design; site planning; town or urban planning; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; visual resource management; green infrastructure planning and provision; and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design - all at varying scales of design, planning and management. This book contains chapters on recent developments in studies of landscape architecture. For this reason I believe the book would be useful to the relevant professional disciplines.