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Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.

This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.

Chapters cover:

  • patches – size, number, and location
  • edges and boundaries
  • corridors and connectivity
  • mosaics
  • summaries of case studies from around the world


Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Chicago’s South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted’s concerns extended beyond the hills and lakes, the flora and fauna of the park: he also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their parks. He thus reinvented the American urban landscape as a democratic outdoor setting that encouraged a new kind of participation in city life. Olmsted was one of the most gifted of American writers of his generation: prior to designing Central Park, he had written five important books, including The Cotton Kingdom (an account of his travels in the slave states, also available from Da Capo Press); and his writings on American landscapes are unfailingly lively, eloquent, and passionate. Civilizing American Cities collects Olmsted’s plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston; his suburban plans for Berkeley, California and Riverside, Illinois; and a generous helping of his writings on urban landscape in general. These selections, expertly edited and introduced, are not only enjoyable but essential reading for anyone interested in the history – and the future – of America’s cities.


Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

D-Day Normandy Revisited: A Photographic Pilgramage

This book takes a fresh look at the crucial twenty-four hours of the Allied landing of June 1944 and revisits the beaches of Normandy where it took place. Today, the landscape is still crisscrossed by the bunkers and anti-tank defenses of the Atlantic Wall, and by the infrastructure brought in by the allies. Like dinosaurs, they contrast starkly with the quiet beaches and the lush countryside, and bring to mind the thousands of lives lost on that day. Richard Bougaardt is a young and talented photographer who has been interested in WWII since his childhood. He has made an impressive photographic study of the sites of the landing and his images are both beautiful and strangely haunting. Being roughly the same age as the British, American and Canadian soldiers, who fought and often died there in the name of freedom and, of course, the German troops who had felt safe behind their defenses, gave him a special empathy with his subject. Richard Bougaardt wrote the commentary and edited the personal recollections of soldiers on both sides, and of the French civilians who waited and hoped. Whenever possible, the modern images are matched with archive pictures showing the same structures or locations in 1944. The book is a moving tribute to human spirit and to a beautiful and tragic part of France.


D-Day Normandy Revisited: A Photographic Pilgramage