The Ecological Design And Planning Reader

Author : Forster O. Ndubisi
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610914902

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The Ecological Design and Planning Reader by Forster O. Ndubisi Pdf

From Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural environment to accommodate our daily needs for food, work, shelter, and recreation are greatly intensified. Concerted efforts to balance human use with ecological concerns are needed now more than ever. A rich body of literature on the effect of human actions on the natural environment provides a window into what we now refer to as ecological design and planning. The study and practice of ecological design and planning provide a promising way to manage change in the landscape so that human actions are more in tune with natural processes. In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader Professor Ndubisi offers refreshing insights into key themes that shape the theory and practice of ecological design and planning. He has assembled, synthesized, and framed selected seminal published scholarly works in the field from the past one hundred and fifty years——ranging from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow to Anne Whiston Spirn’s, “Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities.” The reader ends with a hopeful look forward, which suggests an agenda for future research and analysis in ecological design and planning. This is the first volume to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the history, evolution, theory, methods, and exemplary practice of ecological design and planning. The collection provides students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and our natural environment.

Author : George F. Thompson,Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036060971

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Ecological Design and Planning by George F. Thompson,Frederick R. Steiner Pdf

Addressing the central controversy of ecological landscape and design planning the authors conclude that the polarity of care for the environment and pure aesthetic consideration has to be harmonised, and that both are justifiably pertinent.

Author : Forster Ndubisi
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801877759

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Ecological Planning by Forster Ndubisi Pdf

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Ecological planning is the process of understanding, evaluating, and providing options for the use of landscape to ensure a better fit with human habitation. In this ambitious analysis, Forster Ndubisi provides a succinct historical and comparative account of the various approaches to this process. He then reveals how each of these approaches offers different and uniquely useful perspectives for understanding the dialogue between human and environmental processes. Ndubisi begins by examining the philosophies behind and major contributors to ecological thinking during the past 150 years, as well as the paradigm shift in planning that occurred in recent decades as a result of a growing global ecological awareness. He then turns to landscape suitability analysis and discusses alternative approaches to ecological planning, such as applied human ecology, applied landscape ecology, and others. Finally, he offers a comparative synthesis of the approaches in order to reveal the theoretical and methodological assumptions inherent when planners choose one approach over the other. Ndubisi concludes that no one approach can by itself adequately address the whole spectrum of ecological planning issues. For this reason he offers guidance as to when it may be appropriate for landscape architects and planners to emphasize one approach rather than another.

Author : Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597265973

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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan Pdf

Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, Ecological Design provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse.

Author : Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610912266

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Urban Ecological Design by Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner Pdf

This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies. In essence, it presents a "how-to" method to transform the urban landscape that is thoroughly informed by theory and practice. The authors note that urban design is viewed as an interface between different disciplines. They describe the field as "peacefully overrun, invaded, and occupied" by city planners, architects, engineers, and landscape architects (with developers and politicians frequently joining in). They suggest that environmental concerns demand the consideration of ecology and sustainability issues in urban design. It is, after all, the urban designer who helps to orchestrate human relationships with other living organisms in the built environment. The overall objective of the book is to reinforce the role of the urban designer as an honest broker and promoter of design processes and as an active agent of social creativity in the production of the public realm.

Author : Nancy Rottle,Ken Yocom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350034143

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Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design by Nancy Rottle,Ken Yocom Pdf

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on urban environments, this book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods. It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes.

Author : Ian L. McHarg
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597261173

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The Essential Ian McHarg by Ian L. McHarg Pdf

A concise, illuminating collection of essential essays from one of the pioneers of the field of landscape architecture.

Author : Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351201094

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Planning for Climate Change by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan Pdf

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions.

Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000818512

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The Sustainable Urban Development Reader by Stephen M. Wheeler Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences. The Reader begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through classic readings. It then explores dimensions of urban sustainability, including land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, sustainable development internationally, visions of sustainable community, and case studies from around the world. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader remains unique in presenting a broad array of sustainable city readings, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. Presenting an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format, this book is a valuable resource for general readers as well as students and researchers in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields.

Author : Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031835534

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Ecological Design by Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan Pdf

This is a book about ecological design, which can be defined as "any form of design that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itselves with living processes." Ecological design is an integrated, ecologically responsible design discipline. It helps connect scattered efforts in green architecture, sustainable agriculture, ecological engineering, and other fieldss. Ecological design is both a profoundly hopeful vision and a pragmatic tool. By placing ecology in the foreground of design, it provides specific ways of minimizing energy and material use, reducing pollution, preserving habitat, and fostering community, health, and beauty. It provides a new way of thinking about design

Author : William M. Marsh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013007672

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Landscape Planning by William M. Marsh Pdf

This reprint, originally published in 1983, draws attention to the important lines of thought that have emerged during the past several decades to offer a portrait of contemporary physical geography which have been drawn together in this text. It introduces conventional terms and topics of the subject and weaves them into a conceptual fabric that rests on three major themes, including the energy-balance concept; a model for understanding the forces and processes in the landscape; the stress-threshold concept; the relationship between the stress produced by forces such as wind and water and the resistance of the earth's materials; and the magnitude and frequency of change in the landscape. Chapter summaries are featured along with numerous illustrations.

Author : Daniel E. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471709534

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Sustainable Design by Daniel E. Williams Pdf

Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Design "Daniel Williams's Sustainable Design is . . . a thoroughly practical call for the design professions to take the next steps toward transformation of the human prospect toward a future that is sustainable and sustaining of the best in human life lived in partnership not domination." --From the Foreword by David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College "In this pioneering book, Daniel Williams provides the sort of intelligent, thoughtful, experienced insights that--if followed--will ensure that we make the right choices. It should be on the desk of every architect in the world." --Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation and coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 Architects identify "sustainability" as the most important change in the future of their profession. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical, comprehensive guide to design and plan a built environment compatible with the region's economic, social, and ecological patterns. In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, Sustainable Design answers key questions such as: * How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? * What is the difference between "green design" and "sustainable design"? * What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work. Williams's book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.

Author : Stephen M. Wheeler,Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317672166

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Sustainable Urban Development Reader by Stephen M. Wheeler,Timothy Beatley Pdf

Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction to this topic. It begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept. Topics covered include land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. All sections have a concise editorial introduction that places the selection in context and suggests further reading. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, international sustainable development, visions of sustainable community and case studies from around the world. The book also includes educational exercises for individuals, university classes, or community groups, and an extensive list of recommended readings. The anthology remains unique in presenting a broad array of classic and contemporary readings in this field, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader presents an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format for university classes in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields. It also makes a wide range of sustainable urban planning-related material available to the public in a clear and accessible way, forming an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of urban environments.

Author : Jala Makhzoumi,Gloria Pungetti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135809225

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Ecological Landscape Design and Planning by Jala Makhzoumi,Gloria Pungetti Pdf

The authors of this book offer an holistic methodological approach to the design and planning of landscape, based on both research and practical experience.

Author : Doug Aberley
Publisher : Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015026899925

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Futures by Design by Doug Aberley Pdf