Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities
- ISBN-10
- 1597267643
- ISBN-13
- 9781597267649
- Series
- Green Infrastructure
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-26
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Authors
- Edward T. McMahon, Mark A. Benedict, Mark A. The Conservation Fund
Description
With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape architects, and citizen activists
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