Advances in Landscape Architecture

This book contains chapters on recent developments in studies of landscape architecture. This book is for landscape architects theoretical foundations, theories, methods, and applications will be essential parts of this reference book. The book addresses several very different subjects of study: landscape planning, landscape engineering, biodiversity, landscape restoration, landscape design, and urban design related to theory, practice and the results will be covered.
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome.
The scope of the profession includes: urban design site planning town or urban planning environmental restoration parks and recreation planning visual resource management green infrastructure planning and provision and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design - all at varying scales of design, planning and management. The book would be useful to the relevant professional disciplines.