Research in Landscape Architecture

This book looks at research methods that are specific to and for landscape architecture, and contributes to the further development of landscape architecture as an academic discipline in its own right.

This book looks at research methods that are specific to and for landscape architecture, and contributes to the further development of landscape architecture as an academic discipline in its own right.

Introduction (Adri van den Brink, Diedrich Bruns, Simon Bell and Hilde Tobi) Part I: Raising Awareness, 1. Advancing Landscape Architecture Research (Diedrich Bruns, Adri van den Brink, Hilde Tobi and Simon Bell), 2. Research in Landscape Architecture: A Process Approach (Hilde Tobi and Adri van den Brink), Part II: Setting the Stage, 3. The Role of Theory (Ian H. Thompson), 4. The Relationship between Research and Design (Sanda Lenzholzer, Ingrid Duchhart and Adri van den Brink), 5. The Challenge of Publication (Maggie Roe), 6. Assessing Research Priorities and Quality (Jurian Meijering, Hilde Tobi, Adri van den Brink and Diedrich Bruns), Part III: Selected Approaches and Methods, 7. Case Studies (Simon Swaffield), 8. Landscape Biography (Jan Kolen, Hans Renes and Koos Bosma), 9. Social Media: The New Resource (Ron van Lammeren, Simone Theile, Boris Stemmer and Diedrich Bruns), 10. Virtual Environments (Sigrid Hehl-Lange and Eckart Lange), 11. Walking (Henrik Schulz and Rudi van Etteger), 12. Design Guidelines (Martin Prominski), Part IV: Addressing some of the Grand Challenges, 13. Cultural Landscape Meanings and Values (Ken Taylor), 14. Landscape and Health (Catharine Ward Thompson), 15. Thermally Comfortable Urban Environments (Robert D. Brown and Terry J. Gillespie), 16. The Urban Water Challenge (Antje Backhaus, Ole Fryd and Torben Dam)