The Process of Landscape Design

Covering prominent landscape projects from Canberra, Australia, to Telluride, Colorado, Scottish landscape architect Seamus Filor shows how to design successful landscapes that can be maintained and managed throughout the life of a project. The author examines five subject areas in detail, illustrating each with a completed project and then analyzes the factors that generated the design, assesses the responses of the architects to special conditions, describes the stages of development, and evaluates the performance of the completed design. Projects included are: landscape planning - the Parramatta River, Australia; urban regeneration - the Glasgow Area Renewal Project, Scotland; new town development - the Diplomatic Quarter, Ar-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; university campus - Stirling University, Scotland; and Recreational development - Telluride, Colorado, USA. Throughout, Filor emphasizes time- and cost-savings and shows how to ensure that designs not only meet their original goals but are flexible enough to adapt to changing needs and demands. To tie it all together, he concludes with the special case of Canberra, a project that has evolved over the past 80 years.