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Sustainable
Landscape
Architecture
Cayce Bean and Chia-Hui Yang (Mayla)
csd
Center for Sustainable Development
UTSoA - Seminar in Sustainable Architecture
Standards in Sustainable
Landscape Architecture
Cayce Bean
Chia-Hui Yang (Mayla)
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UTSoA - Seminar in Sustainable Architecture
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Standards in Sustainable Landscape Architecture
Fig. 02 Examples of some of the goods and services various ecosystems can provide for communities.
cultural identity.”7 10. Food and renewable non-food strategies is a cost worthy expense.
products This means “presenting an
The initiative has defined twelve 11. Culture benefits9 accurate valuation of the benefits of
essential ecosystem services. A ecosystems.”10
sustainable site should protect Often, sites are not developed in a
and enhance these services.8 The way to preserve these services or Ecosystem services are the structure
specified ecosystem services are: they are used and then abandoned for the Initiative’s guidelines because
as brownfields. Even brownfields, they believe that any landscape
1. Global climate regulation however, are performing some “holds the potential both to improve
2. Local climate regulation valuable ecosystem services and and to regenerate the natural
3. Air and water cleansing furthermore, could be restored in benefits and services provided by
4. Water supply and regulation such a way to restore and enhance ecosystems in their undeveloped
5. Erosion and sediment control the ecosystem services of the site. state,” and that sites can be
6. Hazard mitigation In the restoration of brownfields, in developed in a way to enhance these
7. Pollination particular, and the development of services and improve the benefits for
8. Habitat functions new projects, in general, there is a the humans and the ecosystem.11
9. Waste decomposition and challenge to convince developers
treatment that changing conventional site
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Constructed Wetlands
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Xeriscaping
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Maintenance Systems
Metabolic Systems
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is no right solution that will produce 16. Liat Margolis, Living Systems: Innovative
a sustainable landscape everytime. Materials and Technologies for Landscape 36. Ibid.
Architecture (a Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007),
Secondly, every proposal must be 10-11. 37. “Why Native Plants.” Lady Bird Johnson
contextually responsive and specific. Wildflower Center. http://www.wildflower.org/
Finally, sustainable landscapes are 17. Ibid. whynatives/.
not just about creating green spaces,
18. J. William Thompson, Sustainable 38. Margolis, Living Systems, 10-11.
but are about implementing design Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green
that can benefit both humans and Building Outdoors (Washington, D.C: Island 39. Ibid., 14-15.
ecosystems simultaneously. Press, 2000), 133.
40. Ibid., 36-37.
19. U.S. EPA, “Water Availability,”
Environmental Protection Agency, http:// 41. Ibid., 56-57.
... www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/water/
availability.html. 42. Ibid., 76-77.
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com/resources/about-constructed-wetlands/.
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