Description
Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses. These projects demonstrate the transformative potential of a nature-based approach to landscape architecture.
The nature-based design approach supports and encourages natural regeneration with a view to promoting sustainable environments, preserving natural resources, and mitigating the impacts of climate change and development. The projects selected for this book demonstrate the potential of nature-based landscape design to support healthy, natural and managed ecosystems, sequester carbon, and support the recovery of biodiversity. In addition to examples of design-led environmental interventions, Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture, the book, also demonstrates the potential for nature-based design to improve people’s relationship with their surroundings by encouraging them to be active participants in their communities. As such, each project featured in the book promotes a discussion around future scenarios in which landscape architects can and will be engaged, from minimizing environmental impact through sustainable design to fostering social justice through community engagement.
This book will be a welcome supplement for undergraduate landscape architecture, survey or design studio courses, and may also be used at the master’s degree level either as part of a landscape architecture survey seminar or early design studio.
Table of Contents
1. Employing the process of natural plant succession in landscape architecture 2. Achieving resiliency in using native plants 3. Wild play environments 4. Practicing at different scales for different purposes 5. Garden as art 6. Working with streams 7. Adaptive reuse 8. Re-energizing an older city center 9. Creating a native plant garden in the city 10. Creating resilient stormwater management 11. Cultural and ecological regeneration through infrastructure 12. Public healing spaces through nature-based design 13. Community engagement 14. Wrap-up
