Landscapes of Change

Landscapes of Change offers an intimate exploration of the increasingly high demands for functional, beautiful public spaces, highlighting key examples of innovative infrastructure, postindustrial landscape, vegetated architecture, ecological urbanism, and edible landscapes.
 

ISBN10: 160469386X
ISBN13: 9781604693867
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: 20141221
Publisher: Workman
Binding: Paperback
SKU: 9781604693867
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Climate change, natural resource use, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to help connect neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, and provide wildlife habitats. Landscapes of Change examines how these challenges drive the design process, inspire new design strategies, and result in innovative works that are redefining the field of landscape architecture. 

In 25 case studies from around the world, Roxi Thoren explores how the site can serve as the design generator, describing each project through the physical, material, ecological, and cultural processes that have shaped the site historically and continue to shape these ground-breaking projects.