Sustainable landscape construction : a guide to green building outdoors /
J. William Thompson and Kim Sorvig ; drawings by Craig D. Farnsworth.
- xxi, 348 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía (p. 327-338).
Successes and challenges -- Keep healthy sites healthy -- Heal injured sites -- Favor living, flexible materials -- Respect the waters of life -- Pave less -- Consider origin and fate of materials -- Know the costs of energy over time -- Celebrate light, respect darkness -- Quietly defend silence -- Maintain to sustain -- Conclusions and beginnings -- Appendix A: the hazards and impacts of landscape materials -- Appendix B: limits of embodied energy methods today -- Appendix C: landscape projects cited in this book.
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Arquitectura del paisaje--Aspectos económicos. Desarrollo sostenible.