Open Space: Urban Public Landscape Design

"Landscape architects are entering a new era, one where the term sustainability has broadened in scope to refer to social and cultural as well as environmental concerns. This 'livability' factor is now core among the challenges facing today's architects and planners, especially as some countries undergo rapid urbanization. Balancing aesthetic and sustainable considerations with the need to integrate their designs within a local context, effective designers utilize natural and artificial landscape elements to create outdoor spaces that respond to a population's physiological as well as psychological requirements. Open Space presents some of the most innovate urban landscape design of recent years with accompanying texts, photos and plans. Includes such stand-out projects as the incredible rooftop garden of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California, the River Manzanares Lineal Park in Madrid, Spain and the Young Circle Arts Park in Hollywood, Florida"-- "As the symbol and soul of a city, public landscape adds more charm to a city. Thus, it has been increasingly important to urban development process. Focusing mainly on the public landscape in the urban area, this book presents 56 landscape projects, which are the world’s best and most distinctive urban public landscape design works. In this book, high quality pictures and detailed plan images will stimulate the readers’ visual senses while text descriptions provide an overall realization of the landscape works to the readers"--