Landscape Design: A Practical Approach

Hannebaum, Leroy G.

ISBN 10: 0130821837 ISBN 13: 9780130821836

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1994

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive view of landscape design as it applies to the professional landscape designer.

Landscape Design: A Practical Approach includes chapters on topography: surveying, topographical mapping, designing terraces & retaining walls, and subsurface drainage; an entire chapter covering irrigation design. The fourth edition of Landscape Design: A Practical Approach has been revised to include a new section on drafting tools in the first chapter, an updated guidelist of plant materials, a new perennials list, and an updated section on computers in landscaping.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Written for horticulture and landscaping students and professional landscapers, Landscape Design: A Practical Approach will also serve as a valuable reference for landscape architects because of many practical applications.

This comprehensive guidebook provides a good, basic understanding of the landscape design process, including:

• design analysis,
• study of land forms and planning of land form manipulation,
• area creation and circulation,
• environmental adjustments,
• aesthetics of good design,
• appropriate materials selection, and
• proper use of enriching materials in the landscape.

Additionally, valuable materials covering specification reading and writing, bidding and estimating, and sales are included.

You can't find another landscape designer's manual so chock-full of practical guidelines and handy techniques designed to put you at the forefront of your profession sooner than you thought possible!

Synopsis

New edition of a text for landscape design and horticulture students covering the basic principles of plantings and architecture, along with chapters on special landscape problems of business and rental properties; specifications, estimations, and bids; using computers; and designing automatic irrigation systems. Drawings and photos (in b&w and col

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0130821837
• ISBN 13: 9780130821836
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 446