Applying Ecological Landscape Design Principles to University Planning

Ecological Design of Urban Landscape

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

Applying GIS and landscape ecological principles to evaluate land conservation alternatives

Nowhere in the eastern United States is the con ̄ict between the conservation of the rich biological diversity of existing forested landscapes vs. a continued expansion of suburban/exurban development more evident than in the case of Sterling Forest, a 7245 ha tract of land on the New York±New Jersey border. This paper reports on our application of geographic information systems (GIS)-based asse...

Ecological Landscape Design

Map of ecological networks for landscape planning

This paper presents a method based on a geographical information system (GIS) to model ecological networks in a fragmented landscape. The ecological networks are generated with the help of a landscape model (which integrate human activities) and with a wildlife dispersal model. The main results are maps which permit the analysis and the understanding of the impact of human activities on wildlif...

Applying Design Space Analysis To Planning

This paper describes a design space analysis approach towards a complete planning solution A complete solution is de ned as one containing the resultant plan the context in which it applies and the argument structure that justi es it The focus in this paper is on de ning and communicating the argument struc ture component A perspective of a plan as a spe cialised type of design and planning as ...