LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: PLANNING-ENGINEERING-HORTICULTURE

The book Landscape Architecture begins with contextually rooted historic gardens that celebrate the cultures art and nature. It covers landscape policy planning and design and explains the synthesis of sustainability principles ecology climate botany geology hydrology and aesthetics. The natural processes of bio-diversity forestry aquatic and riverine ecology have a relationship with local culture climate and abatement of pollution. The greening of the brownfields to make the cities more sustainable are the major challenges which the book covers. The concepts of drainage greenways streetscaping micro-gardening xeriscaping urban farming and play environment have been explained in detail. The book also covers nursery horticulture planting design and symbolic language of flowers.