Visualizing Landscape Architecture : : Functions, Concepts, Strategies / / Elke Mertens.

“We don’t sell gardens; we sell images of gardens.” This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers’ p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2009]
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 1. FUNCTIONS
  • Plane–Two-dimensional presentations: possibilities and limitations
  • Space–Presentation of living spaces
  • Time–Time as the fourth dimension
  • PART 2. CONCEPTS
  • Visual presentations over the course of the planning process
  • Visual presentations for competitions
  • PART 3. STRATEGIES
  • Urbanization: a challenge for sustainable landscape planning
  • Planning with climate change
  • Scenarios as a basis for guiding and designing the growth of major cities
  • Backmatter