LSC6111   Landscape Architecture: Nature, Design and People   (25 credits)

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An introduction to core methods, concepts and contexts for contemporary landscape architecture at the scale of design. Through an integrated project: methods of survey, strategic, and site-specific design, analytical and creative processes are applied, using new media, tools and sources. The project addresses an urban greenspace: designing with topography, vegetation, surfaces and water to create a sustainable community resource. An intensive series of lectures, workshops and seminars addressing theory, society, ethics and culture and approaches to ecology and vegetation and topographic water and constructional studies and applied in the project, which is assessed by portfolio

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