Designing the Sustainable Site (ePub)

The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable
residential landscapes and small-scale sites

Enhanced with three video walk-throughs of case studies,
Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for
Small-Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes Enhanced eBook
gives site designers and landscape architects the tools and
information they need to become a driving force in the quest for
sustainability.

Advocating a regenerative design approach in which built
landscapes sustain and restore vital ecological functions, this
book guides readers through a design process for new and
redeveloped sites that not only minimizes damage to the environment
but also actively helps to repair it. Designing the Sustainable
Site Enhanced eBook:

* Assists designers in identifying and incorporating sustainable
practices that have the greatest positive impact on both the
project and the surrounding community, within a regional
context

* Provides a comprehensive look at successful green landscape
design through photographs, sketches, and video walkthroughs of
case studies that illustrate sustainable landscape practices

* Illustrates how sustainable practices are relevant and
applicable to projects of any size or budget

* Demonstrates how built environments can protect and restore
ecosystem services

* Explains the multiple and far-reaching benefits that
sustainable design solutions can provide

* Assists project teams in fulfilling credit requirements of
green building assessment tools, such as LEED, BREEAM, or
SITES

With attention to six global environmental
challenges--including air pollution, urban flooding and water
pollution, water shortages, invasive species, and loss of
biodiversity--along with guidance on how to meet these
challenges, Designing the Sustainable Site Enhanced eBook is
a practical design manual for sustainable alternatives to
small-scale site and residential landscape design.