Ecological Design

Basic Landscape Architecture 02

Nanct Rottle, Ken Yocom

This book explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format.

Focusing primarily on urban environments, the book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods. It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes.