GIS for Landscape Architects
Landscape architecture—the design, planning, and
management of natural and built environments—is a discipline grounded in
spatial thinking. For progressive landscape architects, GIS technology is
an increasingly important software tool for organizing digital spatial
data in an accessible and logical manner. This allows landscape architects
to consider more design options and to do so more quickly and efficiently
than ever before.
GIS for Landscape Architects shows that
this technology is no longer the exclusive realm of geographers and
scientists. Through actual examples, you'll learn how landscape
architects, land planners, and designers now rely on GIS to create visual
frameworks within which spatial data and information are gathered,
interpreted, manipulated, and shared.
Case studies drawn from the real world show how GIS was used to:
- Prepare a comprehensive plan for a historic streetscape
- Create a site design for a major vacation resort
- Design and manage a recreation area
- Visualize a proposed landfill
- Solicit public input and manage resources for a river restoration project
GIS for Landscape Architects also includes a detailed chapter on the GIS Graphic Method developed by the author to make GIS concepts accessible to landscape architects.
About the author:
Karen Calhoon Hanna is chairperson of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Arkansas, a registered landscape architect in two states, and coauthor of GIS in Site Design.