Sustainable Residential Landscapes

doi:10.3390/books978-3-03921-873-8

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Sustainable Residential Landscapes

An International Perspective

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January 2020

264 pages

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This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Sustainable Residential Landscapes: An International Perspective that was published in

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Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities

Summary

This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies, scales, and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health, exercise, and nutrition. In summary, these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21^st century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.

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rain gardens; bioretention; monoculture; polyculture; substrate; phosphorus; low impact development; green infrastructure; carbon reduction; building energy saving; urban tree; design model; ecological service; tree planting structure; ecological priority, All-Area Integrated Development; coordinated development of rural communities & small towns; landscape performance evaluation; rural landscape architecture; urban villages transformation; residential sustainability; new rural construction model (NRCM); demolition/relocation-oriented market model (D/RMM); sustainable livelihoods; intergenerational engagement; parks; residential neighborhood parks; social sustainability; wellbeing; circular economy; Guatemala; action research; social sustainability; community service learning; CPTED; youth at risk; public space recovery; prevention of gender-based violence; tactical urbanism; dwellings; sustainability; comfort; climate sensitive design; rural revitalization; China; Origin Farmer Indigenous Territory; Bolivian Amazon; Indigenous versus non-indigenous land-use; land use change; urban commons; residential landscapes; spatial theory; cohousing; governance; shared resources; territory