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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.

Joshua Zeunert is a lecturer in Planning and Landscape Architecture at Deakin University, Australia.

Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1: Brief History of Landscape Architecture
Theories, Movements and People: Pre-20th Century
Theories, Movements and People: 20th Century
Theories, Movements and People: Late 20th and Early 21st Century
Timeline
Case studies: Emerald Necklace, Boston USA; North American Greenbelt project Toronto to Texas
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 2: Biodiversity, Ecology and Ecosystem Services
Preservation and Conservation
Ecology and Biodiversity
Restoration
Ecosystem Services
Land Management
Case studies: European Wildlife Bridge Project; Orongo Station (NZ), Nelson Bird Woltz, USA
Interview: TBC
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 3: Landscape as Cleanser
Remediation
Water-sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) /Sustainable Urban Drainage (SuDS)
Post-industrial Landscape Architecture
Waste
Case studies: Qunli Stormwater Park, Turenscape, China; Freshkills Park, Field Operations, USA
Interview: Professor Tony Wong/Sustainable urban water management
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 4: Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure
Networks
Resilience and Decentralisation
Transport
Energy
Retrofitting
Case studies: European Landscape Convention; Waste to Energy Plant, Seoul, South Korea
Interview: North American Green Infrastructure leader TBC
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 5: Food and Agriculture
Food Systems
Agrobiodiversity
Food Security and Food Sovereignty
Food Planning and Policy
Community, Education, Allotment and Kitchen Gardens
Case studies: Millenium Seed Bank Kew, London, UK; UC Davis Campus CA, USA
Interview: David Holmgren/Permaculture
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 6: Landscape Environmental Art, Landscape as Provocateur
Expression
Provocation
Case studies: Carrascoplein Amsterdam by West 8, NL; Splice Garden Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 7: Systems and Social Environmental Design, Influence Beyond Site
Education
Interpretation
Ethics
Design as Activism
Healthy Landscapes
Economics
Governance/Politics
Landscape as (Economic) Generator
Community Maintenance
Case studies: Legible London, UK; City of Chicago Project, USA
Interview: TBC
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 8: Less is More: a Light Touch Approach
Sensitivity/Disturbance
Restraint
Communication
Environmental Management and Maintenance
Case studies: Uluru Visitor Centre, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Australia; Collingwood Children's Farm, London, UK
Interview: Christine Ten Eyck, Landscape Architect, USA
Summary of Key Points

Chapter 9: Project and Material Ratings
Ecological Footprint
Performance/ Rating, Quantitative / Qualitative
Materials / Embodied Energy / Life Cycles / Cradle to Cradle
Post-Occupancy Review
Case studies: Landscape Community Tool, Green Building Council Australia; Sustainable Sites Initiative, USA
Interview: Meg Calkins/Sustainable Sites, USA
Summary of Key Points

Conclusion: Time, Change, Flux, Future Scenarios
Key Themes
Key People

Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements and Credits

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Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability Creating Positive Change Through Design

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability Creating Positive Change Through Design

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