Farmscape The Design Of Productive Landscapes | Landscape & Planning

Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural processes technologies and cycles have long shaped landscape architectural projects from the ornamented farm of the eighteenth century to contemporary projects that integrate agriculture and ecological restoration. The book describes the history of agriculture within landscape architecture and reveals the diversity of current design practices that use the rhythms and forms of agriculture to create productive farms that are also sites of beauty community ecological conservation remediation and pleasure. Highly illustrated in full colour this book provides essential context resources and best practice examples of rural and periurban designed sites for professionals and students alike. |Farmscape The Design of Productive Landscapes | Landscape & Planning