- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (25 April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471525065
- ISBN-13: 978-0471525066
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.3 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,025,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This text focuses on environmental problems associated with land planning, landscape design and land use. It is designed for the science student interested in understanding how the environment relates to planning problems as well as being a valuable reference for the professional in planning and design.
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"Landscape Planning. . . could well be described as ‘How to Design with Nature.’” ––Ian McHarg, from the Foreword
“In North America, there are few places where we have been able to achieve a lasting balance among land use activities, facilities, and environment. . . Planning. . . has been transformed into a bureaucratic process made up of inventories, checklists, and permits, which asks for little understanding of the landscape’s true character.
The route to finding the true character of the landscape lies in understanding the way land functions, changes, and interacts with the life it supports. . . Landscape planning must do more than respond to mere shapes and features but must also respond to the processes themselves.”––William Marsh, from the introduction to Chapter 3
This authoritative text provides comprehensive coverage of the key methods and techniques involved in landscape planning. The Fourth Edition is extensively updated and revised to incorporate the rapid expansions taking place in this field. By focusing on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis, Marsh’s book has received much praise and is an excellent complement to Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature (Wiley, 1995). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Great book
26 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
This book was a great tool for the beginning landscape architect. Many great tools for land planning including equations and tables and charts to determine various things like water runoff, erosion, sun exposure, and much more.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Where Physical Geography & Env. Planning share common ground
16 Dec 2004
Format:Paperback
This may be one of the best introductions to environmental planning for geography students interested in the application of physical geographic techniques. When inquiring minds ask how a Geography major like myself ended up doing septic plan review as a county Environmental Health Specialist I simply point to Marsh's chapter on waste disposal and describe the necessary physical parameters familiar to physical geographers (soil types and percolation rates, groundwater levels, slopes and topography, surface water, geohazards, mapping, etc). There is something for everybody in this book and you don't have to be a geography major to benefit. A very practical text.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
excellent book!
8 May 2009
Format:Paperback
I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually just read this entire book cramming for an Environmental Planning exam (I was originally just going to skim some chapters). I wish I'd been reading it all along! There's a lot of cross-over with a Geology class I'm taking too.
Chapter 3 is one of the best explanations of the form/function(process) relationship in terms of the environment that I've ever read. I also found Chapter 9 very insightful concerning drainage basins. The diagrams and pictures are incredible. There is just enough technical scientific detail in the book to get a really good understanding of processes without overloading you with too many complicated equations.
Chapter 3 is one of the best explanations of the form/function(process) relationship in terms of the environment that I've ever read. I also found Chapter 9 very insightful concerning drainage basins. The diagrams and pictures are incredible. There is just enough technical scientific detail in the book to get a really good understanding of processes without overloading you with too many complicated equations.
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