"Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design" by M. Elen Deming, Simon Swaffield
"Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design" by M. Elen Deming, Simon Swaffield
John Wiley & Sons | 2011 | ISBN: 0470564172 9780470950654 9780470950760 | 274 pages | PDF | 5 MB
John Wiley & Sons | 2011 | ISBN: 0470564172 9780470950654 9780470950760 | 274 pages | PDF | 5 MB
A practical, single-source guide tosuccessful strategies for landscape architecture research. Case studies that show how the range of presented research strategies have been successfully used in practice
Detailed coverage of the ways that new knowledge is produced through research activities and practical innovations in landscape architecture
The first and only book on this topic of growing importance in landscape architecture, the book keeps professionals and students in step with the latest developments in landscape architecture, and delivers a dynamic and flexible game plan for verifying the integrity of their work.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: Knowing Landscape Architecture
3: Theory/Research/ Scholarship/Critique
4: Integrating Design and Research
5: Descriptive Strategies
6: Modeling and Correlational Strategies
7: Experimental Strategies
8: Classification Schemes
9: Interpretive Strategies
10: Evaluation and Diagnosis
11: Engaged Action Research
12: Projective Design
13: Logical Systems (Axioms, Rules, and Argumentation)
14: Research and Practice
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks