Overview

This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC) as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and application of existing landscape performance tools in the current literature to date. Landscape performance is a measure of the effectiveness with which landscape solutions fulfill their intended purpose and contribute to sustainability. The design of the HANC is a prime case for measuring landscape performance as the site has undergone a pervasive transformation of its 65-acre core as an initial phase of improvements. The massive six-year effort has reconfigured arrival, circulation, and parking, developed new educational facilities, constructed a network of walks and trails, and established sustainable ecologies of prairie, savannah, riparian woods, and upland woods across the northern half of its property. This book uses landscape performance as an integral method of not only blending science into the design process but using scientific outputs as the rationale for design-decision-making. Through this, the book showcases a multitude of proven quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods which can be applied to other designs and plans, calculating their specific impacts on the HANC, and guiding readers through how to use each tool through an applied process. This book provides a comprehensive set of tools and approaches to measuring landscape performance that could be used as a guide for other projects to replicate or expand upon. The book helps move the design professions beyond simple stereotypes of simple beauty of form, showcasing and describing how the design professions (primarily landscape architecture) are an extremely scientific and evidence-based industry.

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Author:   Galen Newman ,  Rui Zhu ,  Dongying Li ,  Megan Barnes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032801100

ISBN 10:   1032801107
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   14 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword by Barbara Deutsch Preface by Galen Newman, Rui Zhu, Megan Barnes, and Dongying Li Chapter 1. Defining and Explaining Landscape Performance Megan Barnes, Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Zhihan Tao Chapter 2. Landscape Performance Tools and Calculators: An Overview Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Megan Barnes Chapter 3. Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC): Design, Implementation, and Issues Conners Ladner, Beau Burris, Debbie Markey, Joseph James, Allyson Mendenhall, Galen Newman, Rui Zhu and Dongying Li 1. Environmental Benefits Chapter 4. Environmental Benefits: Investigating Urban Heat Mitigation Through In-Situ Microclimate Measurements Xiaoyu Li, Jiang Zheng, Jingxi Peng, Yue Zhang, Dongying Li and Galen Newman Chapter 5. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Stormwater Runoff Contamination with Comparison Sampling Zhihan Tao and Galen Newman Chapter 6. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Annual Pollutant Load Using the L-THIA Model Rui Zhu, Sara Prybutok, Zhenhang Cai, and Galen Newman Chapter 7. Environmental Benefits: Methodological Overview for eBird, iNaturalist, GAP Data, and Wildlife Richness Rui Zhu and Galen Newman Chapter 8. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Birds Using eBird and GAP Data Rui Zhu and Galen Newman Chapter 9. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Mammals Using iNaturalist and GAP Data Rui Zhu and Galen Newman Chapter 10. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Insects Using iNaturalist and GAP Data Rui Zhu and Galen Newman Chapter 11. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Flora Species Richness Using Biodiversity Indexes Rui Zhu and Galen Newman Chapter 12. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Habitat Quality and Pollinator Benefits Rui Zhu, Jiang Zheng, and Galen Newman Chapter 13. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Material Reuse from Construction Documents Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman 2. Social Benefits Chapter 14. Social Benefits: Assessing Accessibility Impact Using Census Data Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Dongying Li Chapter 15. Social Benefits: Spatiotemporal Visitor Characterization through SafeGraph Data Analysis Xiaoyu Li, Yue Zhang, Dongying Li, Heng Cai and Hao Tian Chapter 16. Social Benefits: Analyzing Visitor Motivations and Benefits Based on Retrospective and On-Site Surveys Yue Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Jingxi Peng, and Dongying Li Chapter 17. Social Benefits: Modeling Visitor Thermal Comfort in Various Park Zones with Heat Budget Calculations Xiaoyu Li, Jingxi Peng, Yue Zhang, and Dongying Li Chapter 18. Social Benefits: Capturing Real-Time Mental Health Conditions using Geographically Explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment Dongying Li, Yue Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, and Jingxi Peng 3. Economic Benefits Chapter 19. Economic Benefits: Assessing Property Tax Revenue through a Pre-Post Evaluation Rui Zhu, Zhenhang Cai, and Galen Newman Chapter 20. Economic Benefits: Assessing Property Value through a Pre-Post Evaluation Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman Chapter 21. Economic Benefits: Evaluating Revenue Impacts with Financial Reports Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman Chapter 22. Economic Benefits: Analyzing Seeding and Water Savings Across Scenarios Rui Zhu and Galen Newman 4. The Future of Landscape Performance Chapter 23. Moving Forward: Future Needs and Directions for Landscape Performance Galen Newman, Rui Zhu, Megan Barnes, Dongying Li, and Zhihan Tao Index

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Galen Newman is a Professor and Department Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, United States. His research interests include community resilience, urban regeneration, landscape performance, and advanced land use science and analytics. Rui Zhu is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, United States. Her research revolves around the intersections of community resilience, urban regeneration, urban analytics, landscape performance, and land use science. Dongying Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, United States. Her primary area of research elucidates the relationship between human exposure to green infrastructure and mental health. She also focuses on identifying the environmental enablers and barriers to health equity. Megan Barnes is Senior Program Manager for Research at the Landscape Architecture Foundation, United States. She manages LAF's Case Study Investigation (CSI) program and Landscape Performance Series initiatives. She has a diverse background in landscape architecture, international development, and nonprofit work and specializes in the quantification of benefits of exemplary landscapes.

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