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Nature, Design, and Health by
The renowned landscape architect David Kamp, FASLA, traces the first stirrings of his interest in landscape to his childhood in rural North Carolina. Kamp maintained his passion for nature through his architectural studies at the University of Virginia, and these in turn helped prepare him for his first design project, a landscape for Australia's new Parliament House in Canberra. In the mid-1990s, Kamp volunteered to design one of the first gardens created specifically for individuals with HIV/AIDS, the Joel Schnaper Memorial Garden at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in East Harlem. The experience proved life-altering, and Kamp resolved to dedicate his practice to exploring the web of relationships connecting design, nature, and health.In this work, Kamp has sought to put people in touch with nature, regardless of their capabilities-from children with autism spectrum disorder to elders with cognitive and physical challenges. He has also explored these ideas in the larger realm, where his plans have revitalized schools, brownfields, parks, and urban waterfronts. By putting personal health on a continuum with environmental health, Kamp has demonstrated that design can help make communities more vibrant, resilient, and equitable. In Nature, Design, and Health, Kamp chronicles his remarkable artistic journey through the stories of his projects for private residences, campuses, elder communities, hospitals, cancer centers, and other landscapes dedicated to health and well-being. Kamp's belief in the power of nature to sustain and connect is summed up in his firm's name-Dirtworks.
Call Number: SB470.K35 A4 2023
Landscape Architect's Pocket Book by
This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations, contracts, and a range of design guidelines including materials, SuDS, environmental impact, and landscape character assessment. The book is an indispensable tool for all landscape architects, providing a timesaving guide and first point of reference to everyday topics, both out on site and in the office. The pocket book covers all major subjects, including hard and soft landscaping, national guidelines and standards, and key planning policy and legislation. Providing concise, easy-to-read reference material, useful calculations, and instant access to a wide range of topics, it is an essential resource for landscape architects, construction industry professionals, and students.
Call Number: SB472.3 .V47 2022
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens by
"Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time." --The American Gardener The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is a comprehensive resource for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and garden history enthusiasts.
Call Number: SB472.45 .C453 2018
Principles of Ecological Landscape Design by
Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes--from public parks to backyards--to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice. This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape. For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.
Call Number: QH541.15.L35 B43 2013
Databases
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles about ecology, energy, natural resources, science, technology, law, public policy, and social impacts.
- Science (Journal)
A weekly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original scientific research, plus reviews and analyses of current research and science policy.
- Science Database
Articles on both the applied and general sciences like aerospace, computers, transportation, and biology.
- Biological Science Database
Articles on biology topics.
Landscape Plans
- Landscape Designs with Native Plants
from University of Maryland Extension - Landscape Design: Drawing a Planting Plan
from IFAS Extension, University of Florida - Landscape Plans
Examples of garden plans, renderings and drawings. From Landscapingnetwork.com - How to Plan a Landscape Designfrom HGTV
Landscape and Garden Design Websites
- What are Sustainable Landscapes?
Through this site, you will learn how landscape architects improve your world through projects ranging from the large-scale sustainable master plans and housing communities to small-scale green streets, parking lots, and private yards. - Earth-Kind Landscaping
Planning the Home Landscape by Texas A&M extension. Topics in the right column on needs, site, diagram, material, plants, landscape construction, and accessories give additional information. - Landscape Design from Watershed Protection Dept. Austin, Texas
Find useful information to help you create an attractive earth-friendly landscape. Includes a landscape fact sheet but some information specific to Texas.
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New Landscaping Ideas That Work by
Homeowners looking to revitalize their yards will absolutely love the more than 350 innovative design suggestions presented in New Landscaping Ideas that Work. In it, practical design advice is paired with the author's 30+ years of expertise to create a complete do-it-yourself guide and primer for homeowners looking to transform all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces. design strategies for combining elements and creating spaces that work for them and their home tips for working effectively with landscaping professionals innovative ideas for transforming all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces strategies for designing more sustainable landscapes and gardens Practical design advice as well as over 350 innovative ideas combine to give homeowners the only sourcebook they'll need to make smart design, buying, and installation decisions.
Publication Date: 2018
Making Plans by
"Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others," according to Frederick R. Steiner. "Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials." In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university, growth that inevitably overlapped because of UT's central location in Austin. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities. Both wise and frank, Making Plans is an important philosophical and practical statement on planning by a leader in the field.
ISBN: 9781477314302Publication Date: 2018
Landscape Design Techniques by
Maximize the beauty, privacy, and property value while reducing the maintenance, labor, and costs of your outdoor living space with BarCharts' new Landscape Design Techniques QuickStudy® guide. As companion title to the QuickStudy® Gardening guide, this guide takes a total-property, long-term approach to establishing goals and strategies to help you develop your vision for your property's landscape based on its existing natural character, as well as your life experiences and values.
Publication Date: 2013
Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens by
While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter into the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture. New commentaries by the authors accompany each of the essays and reflect on the thinking behind them as well as the evolution of the author's thoughts since their original publication. Although the central theme of these writings is landscape architecture broadly taken, the principal subject of several essays and commentaries is the garden, a subject historically plentiful in allusions and metaphors. As a whole Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens offers the general reader as well as the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape and the ways by which we perceive, consider, react, and dwell within them - and what they mean to us. The essays have been perennial favorites in landscape courses since their original publication in Landscape Journal. Bringing them together - bolstered by the new commentaries - creates a book valuable to all those creating gardens and landscapes, as well as those teaching and studying these subjects.
Publication Date: 2011
Professional Associatiions
- Association of Professional Landscape Designers The Association of Professional Landscape Designers is dedicated to advancing the profession of landscape design and to promoting the recognition of landscape designers as qualified and dedicated professionals
- American Society of Landscape Architects The mission of the American Society of Landscape Architects is to advance landscape architecture, especially landscape architecture that is sustainable, through advocacy, communication, education and fellowship.
- Landscape Architecture Foundation The Landscape Architecture Foundation woks to increase the influence and impact of landscape architects to create a more sustainable, just and resilient future.
- Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council The Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to researching, promoting and educating professionals and the public about conservation landscaping to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
