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Simonds, John Ormsbee and Starke, Barry. Landscape Architecture, Fourth Edition. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006.

Landscape Architecture, Fourth Edition

Authors: John Ormsbee Simonds and Barry Starke

Published:  June 2006

eISBN: 9780071491266 0071491260 | ISBN: 9780071461207
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  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Foreword
  • The Hunter and the Philosopher
  • 1. The Human Habitat
  • The Human Animal
  • Nature
  • The Natural Sciences
  • The Ecological Basis
  • Earthscape
  • 2. Climate
  • Climate and Response
  • Social Imprint
  • Accommodation
  • Global Warming
  • Microclimatology
  • 3. Land
  • Human Impact
  • Land as a Resource
  • Land Grants
  • Land Rights
  • Surveying
  • Use
  • 4. Water
  • Water as a Resource
  • Natural Systems
  • Management
  • Water-Related Site Design
  • 5. Vegetation
  • Topsoil Mantle
  • Plants in Nature
  • Plant Identification
  • Plant Culture
  • Introduced Plantations
  • Vanishing Green
  • 6. Landscape Character
  • The Natural Landscape
  • Modification
  • The Built Environment
  • 7. Topography
  • Representation by Contours
  • Surveys
  • Supplementary Data
  • 8. Site Planning
  • Program Development
  • Site Selection
  • Site Analysis
  • Comprehensive Land Planning
  • The Conceptual Plan
  • Computer Application
  • 9. Site Development
  • Site-Structure Expression
  • Site-Structure Plan Development
  • Site-Structure Unity
  • Site Systems
  • 10. Landscape Planting
  • Purpose
  • Process
  • Guidelines
  • Advances
  • 11. Site Volumes
  • Spaces
  • The Base Plane
  • The Overhead Plane
  • The Verticals
  • 12. Visible Landscape
  • The View
  • The Vista
  • The Axis
  • The Symmetrical Plan
  • Asymmetry
  • Visual Resource Management
  • 13. Circulation
  • Motion
  • Sequence
  • Pedestrian Movement
  • The Automobile
  • Travel by Rail, Air, and Water
  • People Movers
  • 14. Structures
  • Common Denominators
  • Composition
  • Structures in the Landscape
  • The Defined Open Space
  • 15. Habitations
  • Dwelling-Nature Relationships
  • Human Needs and Habitat
  • Residential Components
  • 16. Community Planning
  • The Group Imperative
  • Problems
  • Possibilities
  • New Directions
  • 17. Urban Design
  • Cityscape
  • The City Diagram
  • The Ubiquitous Automobile
  • People Places
  • Urban Green, Urban Blue
  • The New Urbanity
  • 18. Growth Management
  • The Guideline Plan
  • Scatteration and Urban Sprawl
  • Restoration
  • 19. The Regional Landscape
  • Interrelationships
  • Regional Form
  • Open-Space Frame
  • The Essentials
  • Regional Planning
  • Governance
  • 20. The Planned Environment
  • A Conservation Credo
  • Environmental Issues
  • 21. Perspective
  • Disavowal and Quest
  • Findings
  • Insights
  • Evolution and Revolution
  • The Planned Experience
  • Retrospective
  • Project Credits
  • Quotation Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index