TheLiving Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning
byFrederick Steiner
IslandPress, March 2008
TheLiving Landscape is a manifesto, resource, andtextbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners,students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its firstedition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new builtenvironments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such acomprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And noother book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasison sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-orientedecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals.
TheLiving Landscape offers
• a systematic, highly practicalapproach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, communityservice, and citizen participation
• more than 20 challenging casestudies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural Americato large cities
• scores of checklists andstep-by-step guides
• hands-on help with practicalzoning, land use, and regulatory issues
• coverage of major advances in GIStechnology and global sustainability standards
• more than 150 illustrations.
As Steiner emphasizes throughoutthis book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellowresidents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting thisplanet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.
byFrederick Steiner
IslandPress, March 2008
TheLiving Landscape is a manifesto, resource, andtextbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners,students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its firstedition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new builtenvironments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such acomprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And noother book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasison sustainable development. This second edition of The Living Landscape offers Frederick Steiner’s design-orientedecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals.
TheLiving Landscape offers
• a systematic, highly practicalapproach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, communityservice, and citizen participation
• more than 20 challenging casestudies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural Americato large cities
• scores of checklists andstep-by-step guides
• hands-on help with practicalzoning, land use, and regulatory issues
• coverage of major advances in GIStechnology and global sustainability standards
• more than 150 illustrations.
As Steiner emphasizes throughoutthis book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellowresidents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting thisplanet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.
