New Landscape DesignIn addition, the book provides the reader with insight into many of the other concerns facing landscape architects, such as the image and the function of urban spaces, ecological survival, sustainability, native people and their settlements, environmental education and the role and nature of human settlement. * Detailed technical information presented in accessible format with full color illustrations * Careful examination of past designs provides unique resource for landscape architects to learn and improve their own work * Clear focus on modern examples helps architects meet uniquely modern challenges such as urban sprawl and environmental concerns |
Contents
Pattern as Placemaker | 6 |
Mas de los Voltes | 14 |
Sony Complex | 22 |
Agnes Katz Plaza | 30 |
Ibaraki Prefecture Government Offices | 36 |
Ørestad | 44 |
Borneo Sporenburg | 52 |
Nasu History Museum | 60 |
Whiteinch Cross | 68 |
Matchworks | 76 |
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