Landscape architecture and design Books

Book SynopsisNow in its Sixth Edition, Site Engineering for Landscape Architects has long been the leading textbook used in site engineering, planning, and construction courses. It presents the complex principles and techniques of site grading, drainage, earthwork, and road alignment in a way that is easy for students to understand.Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Site Engineering IS Design 1 Why Is an Understanding of This Material Important? 1 The Design Language of Site Engineering 1 Summary 17 2 Grading Constraints 19 Environmental Constraints 19 Functional Constraints 23 Summary of Critical Constraints 32 3 Contours and Form 33 Definition 33 Constructing a Section 37 Characteristics of Contour Lines 37 Contour Signatures and Landform 38 Case Studies 53 4 Interpolation and Slope 63 Topographic Data 63 Interpolation 64 Calculating Slope 68 Slope s Expressed as Ratios and Degrees 71 Slope Analysis 71 5 Grading of Simple Design Elements 77 Grading of Linear Elements 77 Grading by Proportion 87 Visualizing Topography from Contour Lines 90 Grading of Planar Areas 90 Swales to Divert Runoff 97 Area Grading Process 98 6 Grading Process 101 Introduction 101 Applying the Grading Process 103 Grading Plan Graphics 108 7 Soils in Construction 113 Role of Soil in Site Planning 113 Implications of Soils for Site Construction 113 Geotechnical Exploration and Soil Investigation 115 Soil Characteristics 117 Soil Classification 118 Engineering Properties of Soils 120 Structural Soils 121 Structured Soil Volumes 122 Lightweight Soils 123 Geotextiles 123 Construction Sequence for Grading 124 Placing and Compacting Soils 126 Earthwork Specifications 128 8 Earthwork 129 Definitions 129 Grading Operations 130 Computation of Cut-and-Fill Volumes 131 Case Study 141 9 Storm Water Management 147 Storm Runoff 147 Hydrologic Cycle 148 Nature of the Problem 148 Management Philosophy 150 System Functions 151 Storm Water Management Strategies 153 Beyond Storm Water Management 155 Summary 156 10 Storm Water Management System Components 157 Traditional Storm Water Management System Components 157 Principles and Techniques 160 Infiltration Systems 161 Detention Systems 164 Rainwater Harvesting Systems 168 Constructed Treatment Wetlands 170 Green Roofs 170 Bioretention Systems 174 Landscape Practices 176 Future Developments: Net Zero Water and Integrated Water Management 176 Case Studies 178 Summary 190 11 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control 191 Introduction 191 Regulatory Requirements 191 Soil Erosion Factors 192 Erosion and Sedimentation Processes 193 Erosion and Sediment Control Principles 193 Development of an Erosion and Sediment Control Plan 195 Runoff Considerations 195 Construction Sequencing 196 Erosion Control Measures 196 Sediment Control Measures 202 Case Studies 202 Summary 205 12 Determining Rates and Volumes of Storm Runoff : Th e Rational and Modified Rational Methods 207 Introduction 207 Rational Method 208 Modified Rational Method 218 Volumes of Runoff, Storage, and Release 222 Required Storage for Detention or Retention Ponds by the Modified Rational Method 224 Summary 226 13 Natural Resources Conservation Service Methods of Estimating Runoff Rates, Volumes, and Required Detention Storage 227 Introduction 227 Rainfall 229 Procedures of TR55 229 Volume for Detention Storage 242 Summary 245 14 Designing and Sizing Storm Water Management Systems 247 Management Systems 247 Design and Layout of Drainage Systems 249 Designing and Sizing Grassed Swales (Waterways) 251 Designing and Sizing Pipe Systems 262 Designing and Sizing Subsurface Drainage 270 Designing and Sizing Rainwater Harvesting Systems 275 Designing and Sizing Integrated Water Management Systems 277 Summary 277 15 Site Layout and Dimensioning 279 Hierarchy of Dimensioning 280 Dimensioning Guidelines 281 Horizontal Layout Methods 283 Layout Plans 288 16 Horizontal Road Alignment 291 Types of Horizontal Curves 291 Circular Curve Elements 293 Circular Curve Formulas 293 Degree of Curve 295 Stationing 297 Horizontal Sight Distance 300 Construction Drawing Graphics 300 Horizontal Alignment Procedures 300 Superelevation 301 Case Study 305 17 Vertical Road Alignment 311 Vertical Curve Formula 312 Equal Tangent Curves 313 Calculating the Locations of High and Low Points 315 Unequal Tangent Curves 318 Construction Drawing Graphics 321 Vertical Sight Distances 322 Road Alignment Procedure 322 Appendix I: Table of Metric Equivalents 327 Appendix II: Metric Drawing Scales 329 Glossary 331 Bibliography 337 Index 341

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Book SynopsisThis gorgeous book will appeal to landscape professionals, park administrators, historians, architects, city planners, and students-and it is a perfect gift for Olmsted aficionados throughout North America.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the fields of landscape design would surely want this book as a reference or simply as a celebration of the first and foremost American landscape architect. Garden Design Online Peer into the mind of the nation's most prolific park maker with this book, which showcases more than 70 public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted... Plans and Views of Public Parks is a visual compendium of Olmsted's work, taking readers on a visual tour through some of America's most significant public landscapes. -- Eryn Carlson Boston Globe Enlightening and lavishly illustrated... Whether your interest is in Olmsted and his work, landscape architecture in general, the development of nature-based recreation, or American history, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks can provide a substantial expansion and deepening of your thoughts in your area of interest, as well as help connect it to other related (and perhaps even previously unconsidered) areas of study. Well-read Naturalist A welcome addition to Olmsted scholarship and an excellent companion to the series documenting his extensive papers. Library Journal [ Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks] is a treasure trove of visual materials, with surprises for even the Olmstedian aficionado. Landscape Architecture Magazine Beveridge, the preeminent Olmsted scholar... gathers in a sumptuous, gorgeous volume of the designs that defined what made many American cities great, and livable. Harvard Magazine These visual documents will generate historical evidence and interpretive questions alike, surely the mark of an important contribution. New England Quarterly Had Olmsted never existed, someone else surely would have applied the moral force of this ethic to landscape design, making parks the vehicle of social reform. But it is inconceivable that anyone else would have had the same deep cistern of human sympathy to drawn on. First ThingsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. New York City, New YorkCentral ParkTompkins SquareUnion SquareRiverside ParkMorningside Park2. San Francisco, CaliforniaPleasure Grounds System3. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove, CaliforniaReservation4. Brooklyn, New YorkProspect ParkFort Greene ParkTompkins ParkBrooklyn Parkways5. Bridgeport, ConnecticutSeaside ParkBeardsley Park6. Newark, New JerseyProposed Park7. Albany, New YorkProposed Park System8. Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFairmount Park9. New Britain, ConnecticutWalnut Hill Park10. Buffalo, New YorkPark System, 1870sParkwaysNiagara SquareThe Park (Delaware Park)The FrontThe ParadeLater Extensions and AlterationsSouth Park, 1888 (Proposed)Southside Park System, 1890s11. Fall River, MassachusettsSouth Park12. Hartford, ConnecticutSystem of Public Grounds13. Chicago, IllinoisSouth Park- The Era of 1871-1893The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893- The Lagoon and Wooded IslandPost-Exposition Redesign and Construction of Jackson ParkWashington Park, Post-1893The Midway PlaisanceBoulevards14. Amherst, MassachusettsTown Common15. Baltimore, MarylandMount Vernon Square16. Montreal, QuebecMount Royal17. Detroit, MichiganBelle Isle18. North Easton, MassachusettsMemorial Cairn19. Boston, MassachusettsThe Park SystemCommonwealth AvenueThe Back Bay FensMuddy River Sanitary Improvement, Brookline and BostonOlmstead Park, Boston and BrooklineJamaica Pond and Environs, BostonThe ArborwayThe Arnold ArboretumFranklin ParkFranklin FieldParkways from Franklin Park to Marine ParkMarine ParkBoston Harbor Islands ProposalCharlesbankWood Island ParkCharlestown HeightsCharlestown Playground20. New London, ConnecticutMemorial Park21. St. Catharine's, OntarioMontebello Park22. Niagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Reservation23. Pawtucket, Rhode IslandPublic Recreation Grounds (Proposed)24. Wilmington, DelawareKentmere Parkway25. Trenton, New JerseyCadwalader Park26. Rochester, New YorkPark SystemGenesse Valley ParkHighland ParkSeneca Park27. Louisville, KentuckyPark SystemCherokee ParkIroquois ParkShawnee ParkLouisville ParkwaysLouisville Squares and Places28. Kansas City, MissouriEleventh Street Parkway and Park System (Proposed)Milwaukee, WisconsinPark SystemWest ParkRiver ParkLake Park30. Newburgh, New YorkDowning Park31. Newport, Rhode IslandMorton Park

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Book SynopsisSanitary Commission, the quality of landscape design in England and France, the biographical circumstances that proved most important to his development as an artist, and his hopes and fears for the future of his profession.Trade ReviewA fascinating new door stop of a book... [whose]revealing glimpses into the mind of America's greatest landscape architect take on fresh relevance. -- Blair Kamin Chicago Tribune It goes without saying-yet it must be said-the editors David Schuyler and Gregory Kaliss, with Jeffrey Schlossberg as assistant editor, continue to perform a massive task... There are indeed hoards of materials here that will be perhaps not just looted but used and cited punctiliously by scholars and modern architects. -- John Dixon Hunt Landscape Architecture Magazine The excellence of the scholarship... as well as [the] comprehensiveness is indisputable. Needless to say, those deeply interested in the works of Olmsted would be remiss indeed not to at least consider the acquisition of these volumes for their respective permanent collections. -- John Riutta Well-Read Naturalist Essential. Academic and general readers; practicing landscape professionals. ChoiceTable of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsBiographical DirectoryChapter 1. April 1890-August 1890Chapter 2. August 1890-December 1890Chapter 3. December 1890-March 1891Chapter 4. April 1891-October 1891Chapter 5. November 1891-April 1892Chapter 6. April 1892-August 1892Chapter 7. September 1892-May 1983Chapter 8. May 1983-November 1893Chapter 9. December 1893-May 1894Chapter 10. June 1894-November 1894Chapter 11. December 1894-May 1895Chapter 12. May 1985-December 1985Appendix 1. Selected Undated WritingsAppendix 2. Chronology of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1890-1895Appendix 3. List of Textual AlterationsIndex of Plant Materials General Index

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Book SynopsisA new facsimile edition of a classic work on New York's architectural masterpieceCentral Park Central Park receives millions of visitors every year, tourists and locals alike. A Description of the New York Central Park, published in 1869, is recognized today as the most important book about the park to appear during its early years. The lively, often wry, text was written by Clarence C. Cook, a distinguished Victorian art critic, while the illustrations were drawn by the popular Albert Fitch Bellows. The author and artist examine many sites in the park that survive to this day as well as features that have vanished over time. In a new Introduction, Maureen Meister reveals how the book came about. In the mid-1860s, the park's designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, were battling to defend their plan. Of greatest concern was a proposal to build ornate entrances, suggestive of French imperialism. If realized, the gates would have undermined the park's natural and democratic imaTrade Review"A Description of the New York Central Park by Clarence Cook was one of the first comprehensive guides to Central Park and it remains one of the finest. Albert Fitch Bellows's rich illustrations of the Parks historic structures were an essential reference tool as the Conservancy fulfilled its mission of bringing the Park back from decades of decline to the healthy vibrant park of today. This book is a must for anyone who cherishes Central Park and understands its historic significance as a masterpiece of landscape architecture." -- Douglas Blonsky,President and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy and Central Park Administrator"Clarence Cook is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the original creators of Central Park wished visitors to experience this first great public designed landscape. In her introduction, Maureen Meister reveals the interesting circumstances surrounding the book's conception and production." -- Francis R. Kowsky,author of Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux"I love reissues of essential books with new forewords that provide the backstories of the creators.. Maureen Meister ...unpacks the personalities, prejudices, and relationships between the publisher, printer, author, illustrator and the designers of the object of their attention, Central Park, all of whom were interconnected in multiple, fascinating ways." -- Keith N. Morgan,Professor Emeritus, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University""This delightful early history of Central Park was written with considerable assistance from Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and thus accurately reflects their intent in designing and administering the park. To Clarence Cook's insightful tour of the park and the handsome engravings prepared by Albert F. Bellows, Maureen Meister has contributed an intelligent introduction that explains the book's publication history, especially the roles of Cook, Bellows, printer Corydon Alvord, and publisher F. J. Huntington." -- David Schuyler,author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, and the Hudson River Valley

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Book SynopsisWhat do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by slaves, Indians, indentured servants, and children. Sermons in Stone is the surprising and illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization. "Who would think that a history of that humble workaday structure, the stone wall, would be so full of the fascinating, the peculiar, the downright eccentric? But here it is, laid out in a sprightly style and beautifully illustrated by the ink drawings of David Howell." —Dallas Morning News

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Book SynopsisIncludes raised tombs, ornate statuary, and the alleged grave of voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

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Book SynopsisBuilt in 1707, the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) is a masterpiece integrating the classic garden-building arts of China. It is reputed as the "Garden of all Gardens," due to its rich and incomparable landscaping. The beautiful and expansive gardens were known to the world, and triggered the craze of Chinese gardens in 18th century Europe. Victor Hugo, one of the best and greatest known French writers, described it as "Achievements generated from the imagination of a super nation." The Old Summer Palace was also the second political center in addition to the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty (1636–1911). Five emperors chose the Old Summer Palace as their venue for administrative governance. They felt it expressed an ideal of state governing and an appeal of aesthetics. Meanwhile, it was the base for turning out important national policies while serving as an important venue for the exchange between Chinese and foreign envoys. Having gone through a span of over 150 years, the Old Summer Palace reflects the history of the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty. Deserving its honor as the largest royal art museum, the Old Summer Palace contained calligraphic works and paintings of many noted artists, numerous rarities such as secret and valuable books, ancient bells, tri-pots, precious articles, gold and silver wares, jewelry and jade as well as rare flowers and trees of that time. In 1860, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by British-French Allied Forces and all the collections inside were looted, resulting in a terrible disaster in the history of international culture. Today, the Older Summer Palace represents an important piece of cultural history for human civilization. At the end of the 20th century, Guo Daiheng, the author of this book, led over 80 experts, scholars and professionals in starting a project of Digital Reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace, an unprecedented task in the history of international historic parks. Over the past 15 years, the project has included an orderly development in 3D molding, digital restoration, and digital experience. Scenes of the Old Summer Palace in this book are the exact results from a digitalized Old Summer Palace, which reveals the magnificence of the garden in its prime.

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Book SynopsisThis ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.

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Book SynopsisLaurie Olin shares his insights into seemingly ordinary elements of these places, and how they intersect with our individual lives and experiences. An expert treatise on a niche topic, Olin's analysis of the importance of public seating goes beyond their aesthetic or comfort value. He explores how public seating influences our social conduct, our role as citizens, and our establishment of place and community.

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Book SynopsisLA+ WILD explores the concept of WILD and its role in design, large-scale habitat and species conservation, scientific research, the human psyche, and aesthetics. This issue of LA+ includes contributions drawn from disciplines as diverse as evolutionary ecology, biology, visual arts, bioengineering, landscape architecture, planning, architecture, climatology, environmental history, philosophy, and literature. It features essays by Timothy Mousseau and Anders Moller, Timothy Morton, Paul Carter, Richard Weller, Julian Raxworthy, Emma Marris, Stefan Rahmstorf, Stephen Pyne, Nina-Marie Lister, and Orkan Telhan, among others. It also includes a review of the New York s Rebuild by Design competition, and interviews with eminent ecologists Richard T.T. Forman and Daniel Janzen. The feature artist for this issue is Viennese bio-artist Sonja Baumel. LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) Journal from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design is the first truly interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture. Within its pages you hear not only from designers, but also from historians, artists, lawyers, ecologists, planners, scientists, philosophers, and many more besides. LA+ aims to reveal connections and build collaborations between landscape architecture/urban design and other disciplines by exploring each issue's theme from multiple perspectives. The journal features a range of contribution types including essays, interviews, design criticism, graphic features, illustrations, and short-form pieces designed to provoke and inspire readers. LA+ Journal brings you a rich collection of contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually."

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Book SynopsisIt is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the process to collect and memorise traces is the way to consider memory as a primary medium for creativity. The selected collection of over 150 drawings, thought and imagined over many years, delineates a personal city experience, without any intention of building a new city theory. No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world. These drawings are a different form of communication than the beautiful renderings produced in endless numbers.

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Book SynopsisAlmost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately for a community. Community can be the boon or bane of a project, and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities. We ask how different disciplines construct different ideas of community and how those communities are anchored in space and time, whose interests they serve, and what traces they leave. And we examine how — in this pluralistic, fragmented, and fluid world — designers can meaningfully engage with communities. Contributions from: Anne Whiston Spirn reflects upon her personal and professional journey through her long-term engagement with the Mill Creek community in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project. Architect and cofounder of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project Jocelyn Boys discusses how designers and policy-makers make assumptions about the "ordinary user" of public space and explores ways of understanding and improving how people with disabilities engage with such spaces. Historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson contemplates the conceptual and practical slippages between understanding community in both its geographical and sociological forms, and what this means for designers seeking to give spatial form to the concept of community. A multi-perspective Q+A with BIPOC designers, educators, and artists Kofi Boone, Julian Agyeman, Hanna Kim, Alma du Solier, Jeffrey Hou, Melissa Guerrero, and Kat Engleman confronts the enduring practices of spatial injustice and the need for new processes, engagement, and outcomes for a racially and culturally inclusive future. Philosopher and author Mark Kingwell considers the literal ins and outs of the question “What is community?” in the midst of a global pandemic. Landscape architect Kate Orff speaks about the ways in which she uses community activism and different practices of engagement to drive better design outcomes. Criminologists James Petty + Alison Young open our eyes to the rise of hostile architecture and criminalisation of homelessness in public space. Designer Chrili Car reflects on lessons learned from working with a self-organised community in a remote village in northern Ghana to masterplan long-term local sustainability and greenbelt projects. Ecologist Jodi Hilty, President and Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative, speaks about the realisation of this visionary wildlife-corridor project spanning 3,200 km, two countries, and hundreds of different communities and interests. Historic preservationist and planner Francesca Russello Ammon teases out the contradictions in the canonical urban renewal success story of Philadelphia’s Society Hill. Landscape architect Jessica Henson gives us the inside story on the intractably complex socio-political and ecological task of master planning a 51-mile swath of the Los Angeles River with a diverse range of user communities. Michael Schwarze-Rodrian recounts the extraordinary achievements of the Emscher Landscape Park in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet, where over the last 30 years a working-class community facing the trauma of transition to a post-industrial economy has been sustained by the medium of landscape, without the forms of displacement or gentrification typically associated with high-end greening. Urban planner and author of Just Sustainabilities Julian Agyeman elucidates what the culturally inclusive design of public space entails. Architect Mario Matamoros delivers a stinging critique of the way in which developers and designers in the Honduran city of Tegucigalpa dupe the public with cynical community consultation so as to anesthetise the possibility of dissent, and Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard interviews the CEO of the Federation of Traditional Owner Corporations, Paul Paton and landscape architect Anne-Marie Pisani about working with Indigenous communities in Australia to help facilitate self-determination and connection to their lands.

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Book SynopsisThere are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanised and exceedingly industrialised cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural wilderness, urban wildernesses see similar community structures and often offer similar services, with strong vitality and resilience. However, such natural resources are often misunderstood or overlooked as undesirable places and thus, their great ecological, social, economic, and aesthetic values are ignored. Meanwhile, due to constant changes of global and regional ecological environments, lagged design theories and techniques, and limited aesthetic consciousness, urban plantscapes—the most important producer with provisioning and regulating services for both urban wildernesses and constructed ecosystems—are confronting problems such as poor species and structural diversity, high maintenance requirements, and insufficient ecosystem services. This issue hopes to interpret and display the treasured qualities of urban wildernesses and inspire landscape architects to strike the balance between urban wildernesses and human settlements via ecological planting methods that facilitate natural evolution and ecological flows. Landscape Architecture Frontiers attempts to define an “urban wilderness” and its images, connotations, implications, and resources; explore related techniques to provide full play to its irreplaceable role in providing ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation; and focus on urban re-wilding practices and ecological planting theories, aiming at well integrating urban wildernesses into the naturally constructed urban ecosystem to enhance the city’s ecological sustainability and resilience.

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