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Informationen zum Autor M. ELEN DEMING, DDES, ASLA, RLA, is Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. She is past editor of the award-winning Landscape Journal , as well as current President and Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. She currently serves as on the editorial advisory boards for the European Journal of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Journal . SIMON R. SWAFFIELD, PHD, FNZILA, is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2007, he received the Outstanding Research and Communication Award from CELA. He is founding editor of Landscape Review and frequently authors and edits journal articles. Klappentext A practical, single-source guide to successful strategies for landscape architecture research As the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating, and validating knowledge. Landscape Architecture Research offers a framework for advancing better design thinking solutions by supplying readers with a system of inquiry tactics that open up a wider range of research possibilities. With a logical and innovative approach that favors legitimacy of knowledge based on collective, grounded practices, rather than strict adherence to protocols drawn only from scientific models, this comprehensive, illustrated guide produces a sound argument for establishing a new paradigm for legitimizing research quality. Landscape Architecture Research presents: Case studies that show how the range of presented research strategies have been successfully used in practice New perspective on the relationship between theory, research, practice, and critique, a relationship that is specific to landscape architecture Detailed coverage of the ways that new knowledge is produced through research activities and practical innovations in landscape architecture The first and only book on this topic of growing importance in landscape architecture, Landscape Architecture Research keeps professionals and students in step with the latest developments in landscape architecture, and delivers a dynamic and flexible game plan for verifying the integrity of their work. Zusammenfassung In landscape architecture! research refers to the analysis of the decision making and systematic inquiry that occurs throughout the design process. The ever present tension between science and art defines and challenges landscape architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Knowledge in Landscape Architecture 1 1.2 The Need for a Guide 2 1.3 The Gatekeeping Dilemma in Context 4 1.4 Mapping the Terrain 7 1.5 Building a Research-Based Discipline 13 References 15 Chapter 2 Knowing Landscape Architecture 17 2.1 Introduction 17 2.2 The Nature of Professional Disciplines 17 2.3 Domains of Knowledge in Landscape Architecture 20 2.4 Research Needs 26 References 29 Chapter 3 Theory/Research/Scholarship/Critique 30 3.1 Introduction 30 3.2 Competing Ideals of Theory 31 3.3 Representing Theory 34 3.4 Theoretical Conversations 35 3.5 Research and Scholarship 37 3.6 Studio Design as a Research Setting 40 3.7 Theory and Critique 42 3.8 Conclusion 43 References 44 Chapter 4 Integrating Design and Research 48 4.1 Introduction 48 4.2 Problems and Purpose 48 4.3 Framing a Research Question 52 4.4 Degrees of Research 53 4.5 Assessing Research Qua...
