Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and indexes

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conveying Ideas and Planning Aims in Plans and Images -- Presentation Methodsin the Past -- Finding Ideas and Forms -- Finding Ideas and Forms By Drawing -- Finding Ideas and Forms By Modelmaking -- Part 1 Functions -- Functions Plane -- Two-Dimensional Presentations: Possibilities and Limitations -- Functions Space -- Presentation of Living Spaces -- Functions Time -- Time As the Fourth Dimension -- Part 2 Concepts -- Concepts Planning Process -- Visual Presentations Over the Course of the Planning Process -- Concepts Competitions -- Visual Presentations for Competitions -- Part 3 Strategies -- Strategies Landscape Planning -- Urbanization: a Challenge for Sustainable Landscape Planning -- Strategies Climate Change -- Planning With Climate Change -- Strategies Scenarios -- Scenarios As a Basis for Guiding and Designing the Growth of Major Cities -- Appendix -- Illustration Credits -- Film Credits -- About the Author -- Subject Index on Visualizat Ion in Landscape Architecture -- Index of Practices Andprojects -- Bibliography

"We don't sell gardens--we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities, including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used, and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom

English translation of the original German

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