Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability - Creating Positive Change Through Design

Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017 Winner of the AILA VIC Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017 Highly Commended (Communication and Presentation) Landscape Institute Awards 2018 Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potential routes to addressing them. The book covers essential concepts of landscape architecture and environmental sustainability, including: - Ecology, multifunctional landscapes and sensitive intervention- Remediation, cleansing and environmental infrastructure- Social sustainability, design activism and healthy landscapes - Food systems, productive landscapes and transportation- Performance ratings, materials and life cycles Through case studies from around the world and interviews with leading landscape architects and practitioners, this book invites discussion about possible future scenarios, relevant theories and project responses in landscape environmental design. With hundreds of color images throughout the book, and additional study material in the companion website, Joshua Zeunert provides an overview of the multidimensional qualities of landscape sustainability.>

About the author

Joshua Zeunart is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Zeunert, Joshua (University of New South Wales Zeunert, Zeunert Joshua
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781472590626
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-9062-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 268 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Required Reading Range; Required Reading Range
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Landscape architecture and design, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design