Sustainable landscape architecture
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Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of outdoor space.[1]
This can include ecological, politically correct, social and economic aspects of sustainability. For example, the design of a sustainable urban drainage system can: improve habitats for fauna and flora; improve recreational facilities, because people love to be beside water; save money, because building culverts is expensive and floods cause severe financial harm.
The design of a green roof or a roof garden can also contribute to the sustainability of a landscape architecture project. The roof will help manage surface water, provide for wildlife and provide for recreation.
Sustainability appears to be a new addition to the traditional Vitruvian objectives of the design process: a structure must be solid, useful, and beautiful (firmitas, utilitas, venustas). But it can be seen as an aspect of both solidity and usefulness: an outdoor space is likely to last longer and give more usefulness to its owners if it requires low inputs of energy, water, fertiliser etc., and if it produces fewer outputs of noise, pollution, surface water runoff etc.
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Professional Practice[edit]
The American Society of Landscape Architects' sustainable design guidelines include the following[2]:
- Public Health + Landscape Architecture: Health benefits of nature
- Community Design: Climate change, green infrastructure, healthy and livable communities, resilient design, sustainable transportation, sustainable urban development.
- Residential Design: Improving water management, increasing water efficiency, applying ecological design, using low impact materials.
The American Society of Landscape Architects also provide a sustainability toolkit that includes economic, environmental, and social models, for projects of different scales, that can be used in practicing landscape architecture[3].
The scales includes:
Sustainable Cities & Community Planning
Sustainable Neighborhood Planning
Professional Certifications[edit]
- The Sustainable Sites Initiative Accredited Professional (SITES AP) by The Sustainable Sites Initiative
- Envision Sustainability Professional (Env SP) by The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by The United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Award Winning Sustainable Landscape Architecture Projects[edit]
2017
- The Olana Strategic Landscape Design Plan: Restoring an American Masterpiec e | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - Planning and Analysis
- Conservation at the Edge - Prototyping low-intervention conservation in the Patagonian wilderness | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - Planning and Analysis
- Merging Culture and Ecology at The North Carolina Museum of Art | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
2016
- Framing Terrain and Water: Quzhou Luming Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
- Corktown Common: Flood Protection and a Neighbourhood Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
- Eco-Corridor Resurrects Former Brownfield | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
2015
- At the Hudson's Edge: Beacon's Long Dock a Resilient Riverfront Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Excellence - General Design
- Mill River Park and Greenway | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
- Weishan Wetland Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
2014
- Woodland Rain Gardens | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Excellence - Residential Design
- Slow Down: Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
- Low Maintenance Eco-Campus: Vanke Research Center | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
2013
- A Mother River Recovered: Qian'an Sanlihe Greenway | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitors Center | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor - General Design
See also[edit]
- Carbon cycle re-balancing
- Climate-friendly gardening
- Context theory
- Energy-efficient landscaping
- Green roof
- Green transport
- Landscape planning
- List of sustainable agriculture topics
- Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Public open space (POS)
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable gardening
- Sustainable landscaping
- Sustainable planting
- Urban agriculture
- Urban forestry
- Urbanization
References[edit]
- ^ Orr, Stephen. "A Sustainability That Aims to Seduce". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
- ^ "Sustainable Design Guides | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "Sustainable Design Guides | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- Landscape and sustainability John F. Benson, Maggie H. Roe (2007)
- Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Process, and Case Studies Claudia Dinep, Kristin Schwab (2009)
- Sustainable urban design: perspectives and examplesWork Group for Sustainable Urban Development (2005)
External links[edit]
- The Sustainable Landscapes Conference at Utah State University
- Information on designing a sustainable urban landscape
- Sustainable Environmental Design and Landscape Stewardship
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