Landscape Planning

"Landscape planning" is the first comprehensive textbook of its kind, making a positive contribution to the topical subject of environmental impact assessment and design. It deals with the difficult problem of integrating various land uses to produce a landscape that is both useful and beautiful. The text has been written in a clear and factual style, and is fully complemented with 200 high-quality photographs. There is a comprehensive reference list at the end of each chapter and a selected bibliography at the end of the book. Tom Turner reviews the way in which land use practices have changed, considers how older projects should be reclaimed to form part of a collective landscape, and makes proposals for the environmental impact design of future projects. There are chapters on landscape planning for industry, reservoirs, mining, parks, flood control, forestry, housing, new towns and urban renewal. "Landscape planning" will be essential reading for students of landscape architecture, town and country planning, landscape management, conservation and urban design.
It will also appeal to practitioners in other disciplines -- such as civil engineers, surveyors, foresters, and mining engineers -- who want to become more familiar with the landscape implications of their activities. A series of texts on environmental planning for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process. Tom Turner has been teaching planning at Thames Poytechnic since 1980 and is studio master for the final year of the landscape course. He is joint editor of the London Landscape Guide and has published many articles on landscape planning and related subjects. This book is intended for students of town and country planning.