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Research in landscape architecture : methods and methodology / edited by Adri van den Brink, Diedrich Bruns, Hilde Tobi and Simon Bell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.Description: xiii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138020931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB469.4 R31 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. Raising awareness --Advancing landscape architecture -- A process approach to research in landscape architecture -- Part II. Setting the stage -- The role of theory -- The relationship between research and design -- The challenge of publication -- Assessing research priorities and quality -- Part III. Selected approaches and methods --Case studies -- Landscap biography -- Social media -- Virtual environments -- Walking -- Design guidelines -- Part IV. Addressing some of the grand challenges -- Cultural landscape meanings and values -- Landscape and health -- Thermally comfortable urban environments -- The urban water challenge.
Summary: "Research in Landscape Architecture provides guidance on the rationales needed for selecting methods and offers direction to help to frame and design academic research within the discipline. Over the last couple of decades the traditional orientation in landscape architecture as a field of professional practice has gradually been complemented by a growing focus on research. This book will help you to develop the connections between research, teaching and practice, to help you to build a common framework of theory and research methods."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Raising awareness --Advancing landscape architecture -- A process approach to research in landscape architecture -- Part II. Setting the stage -- The role of theory -- The relationship between research and design -- The challenge of publication -- Assessing research priorities and quality -- Part III. Selected approaches and methods --Case studies -- Landscap biography -- Social media -- Virtual environments -- Walking -- Design guidelines -- Part IV. Addressing some of the grand challenges -- Cultural landscape meanings and values -- Landscape and health -- Thermally comfortable urban environments -- The urban water challenge.

"Research in Landscape Architecture provides guidance on the rationales needed for selecting methods and offers direction to help to frame and design academic research within the discipline. Over the last couple of decades the traditional orientation in landscape architecture as a field of professional practice has gradually been complemented by a growing focus on research. This book will help you to develop the connections between research, teaching and practice, to help you to build a common framework of theory and research methods."--Back cover.

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