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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J William Thompson; Kim Sorvig |
| ISBN: | 9781597261425 1597261424 9781597261432 1597261432 |
| OCLC Number: | 145431837 |
| Description: | xxvii, 381 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : "Sustainability" in context : What is sustainability: politics, ethics, and semantics ; Landscapes against climate change ; Sustainability, substance, and style -- Principle 1. Keep healthy sites healthy : What is a health site? Take a role in "pre-construction" ; Do your homework first: knowledge as sustainability ; Avoid survey damage ; Minimize utility damage ; Physically protect site during construction ; Preserve healthy topsoil ; Save every possible existing tree: even just one ; Use Appropriate construction machinery ; Related design and planning issues ; Coordination and follow-up -- Principle 2. Heal injured sites : Turn wastelands to gardens ; Balance the environmental costs and benefits of restoration ; Involve the community in site restoration ; Restore landscapes structurally ; Restore damaged soils on-site ; Restore regionally appropriate vegetation ; Restore forests and coexist with wildfire -- Principle 3. Favor living, flexible materials : Hold slopes in place with biotechnical erosion control ; Make vertical structures "habitat-able" with greenwalls ; Turn barren roof spaces into "greenroofs" ; Construct for and with plants -- Evaluate turf: the green, the bad, and the ugly ; Count on plants to sustain -- Principle 4. Respect the waters of life : Work with the site's water regime ; Understand, protect, and restore natural wetlands ; Restore rivers and streams to full health ; Collect and conserve water ; Irrigate intelligently and sparingly ; Reuse graywater ; Purify water at every opportunity ; Test modern hardware for cleaner piped stormwater ; Let constructed wetlands treat water -- Principle 5. Pave less : Plan and design to reduce paving ; Take advantage of "context-sensitive road design" ; Use techniques that reduce runoff from paving ; Use porous paving materials ; Cool asphalt with planting and albedo. Principle 6. Consider origin and fate of materials : Recall some simple guidelines ; Let reuse be re-inspiration ; Use local, salvaged, or recycled materials ; Evaluate environmental costs when choosing suppliers ; Use sustainably harvested renewables ; Avoid toxic and nonrenewable materials ; Know general toxicity issues by material type ; Avoid three controversial materials ; Prioritize hazard-reduction efforts -- Principle 7. Know the costs of energy over time : Understand how landscape energy use is different ; Manage energy for machines, tools, and labor ; Embodied energy: why do we care? ; Use life-cycle costing to justify sustainable design ; Apply guidelines for landscape energy conservation -- Principle 8. Celebrate light, respect darkness : Respect the need for darkness ; Talk lighting: a brief glossary ; Try low-voltage lighting for flexibility ; Evaluate lamp performance ; Join the LED lighting revolution -- Principle 9. Quietly defend silence : Understand noise terminology ; Be aware of damage caused by noise ; Don't rely on noise "barriers" in most landscapes ; Try noise-absorbing barriers ; Modify pavement to reduce road noise ; Make noise invisible ; Fight noise with noise ; Push for quieter landscape tools ; Protect "soundscapes" through planning -- Principle 10. Maintain to sustain : Know the resource costs of conventional landscape maintenance ; Plan for maintainable spaces ; Expect change ; Use appropriate machinery and fuels ; Switch to bio-based maintenance products ; Apply integrated pest management ; Use fertilizers sustainably ; Don't water on-site resources ; Consider alternatives to mowing ; Adapt to using native plants ; Manage large public landscapes holistically, too ; Evaluate life-cycle costs of maintenance options ; Coordinate design, construction, and maintenance -- Conclusions and beginnings : Learning from the landscape: themes and strategies ; Green education in design and construction ; Landscapes as public environmental education ; Thinking one hundred years ahead. |
| Responsibility: | William Thompson and Kim Sorvig ; with drawings by Craig D. Farnsworth. |
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Abstract:
Provides ideas for designing, building, and maintaining environmentally sensitive landscapes. This book describes and illustrates projects from around the globe. It also contains a chapter which details ways in which landscape architectural practice must respond to the dangers posed by fire, floods, drought, extreme storms, and climate change.
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