Landscape performance : Ian McHarg's ecological planning in the Woodlands, Texas /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2019]
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| Series: | Routledge research in landscape and environmental design.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- Overview of landscape performance scholarship
- Ian McHarg : a pioneer in performance evaluation
- Recent development of performance assessment
- Premier research programs
- Social benefits
- Economic benefits
- Performance evaluation : the Woodlands vs. Houston
- The Woodlands : an exemplary case for performance assessment
- Planning and design process
- Resilience to flood
- Runoff volume
- Stormwater quality
- Urban heat island
- The Woodlands performance post-McHarg
- An evolving ecological plan
- Modeling development and runoff scenarios
- Stormwater performance
- Safety perception
- Major players and barriers
- Ecological wisdom and urban resilience
- McHarg's ecological wisdom
- Urban resilience and contemporary relevance.