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E-raamat: Contemporary Landscape Performance Methods and Techniques: Lessons from the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and application of existing landscape performance tools in the current literature to date.



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 fulfil 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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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

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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