Landscape definitions

Question 1

Landscape Architecture

Answer 1

• A branch of architecture
• Deals with soil, climate, and drainage
• Artistic and structural
• Architecture, site design, and planning
• Art or science > arrangement of land with spaces and objects

Benefits:

• Support human behavior
• Create a safe, healthy, efficient human life

Question 2

Landscape Planning

Answer 2

• Reason: unplanned extraction of minerals
• Emphasizes the ecological behavior
• Approaches analysis, design, and planning
• Advocates the study of biophysical and socio-cultural systems to determine the optimum land uses patterns

Question 3

Urban Landscape

Answer 3

• patterns, traits, and structure of a city’s specific geographic area
• biological composition
• physical environment
• social patterns
• orienting through the layout

Question 4

Landscape Design

Answer 4

• arrangement of landscape features to create an urban area for aesthetic or practical purposes
• focuses on the artistic merits of design
• divided into softscape and hardscape

Question 5

Landscape Elements

Answer 5

1. Plantation
2. Land mosaics
3. Land patches

Question 6

Landscape Approaches

Answer 6

1. Landscape Ecology

2. Landscape Management

Question 7

Plantation

Answer 7

• A group of cultivated trees or plants
• intentional planting of a crop
• mostly trees and shrubs

Question 8

Land Mosaics

Answer 8

• A pattern of corridors, patches and matrices that form a landscape
• The edge between two types of landscape (e.g. A forest adjacent to grassland)

Question 9

Land Patches

Answer 9

• Basic unit of landscape
• A process called Patch Dynamics
• A non-linear homogenous area that differs from the surroundings
• have boundaries
• have different shape and spatial configuration
• determind by no. of trees and species and height of trees, etc.

Question 10

Landscape Ecology

Answer 10

• Art or science that studies and improves the relationship between spatial patterns and ecological processes
• Focuses on:
  1. the spacial relationship among landscape systems or ecosystems
  2. The flow of energy and mineral nutrients among the elements
  3. the ecological dynamics of landscape mosaic through time

Question 11

Landscape Management

Answer 11

• The process of establishing landscape plants over a period of time
• Concerned with developing management policies that conserve, enhance, and maintain landscape
• Aims to preserve landscape and control its transformation caused by anthropic activities and natural events
• Why landscape management?
  > to ensure that the design fulfills its required function
  > to ensure that the design intention is realized in the long-term