GIS for Landscape Architects

 

GIS for Landscape Architects is a new book by Karen Calhoon Hanna, chairperson of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Arkansas.

GIS technology (geographic information systems) is an increasingly important software tool for organizing digital spatial data in an accessible and logical manner. It allows landscape architects to consider more design options and to do so more quickly and efficiently than ever.

The new book on the subject, GIS for Landscape Architects by Karen Calhoon Hanna, chairperson of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Arkansas, shows that this technology is no longer the exclusive realm of geographers and scientists. Through examples, she explains how landscape architects, land planners and designers now rely on GIS to create visual frameworks within which spatial data and information are gathered, interpreted, manipulated and shared.

This 120-page book reveals case studies on how GIS is used for: a comprehensive plan for a historic streetscape; a site design for a major vacation resort; a design and management of a recreational area; visualizing a proposed landfill; and solicit public input and manage resources for a river restoration project.GIS for Landscape Architects also includes a detailed chapter on the GIS graphic method developed by the author to make GIS concepts accessible to landscape architects.

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