Publisher's Synopsis
The landscape architect has the great responsibility of creating projects that dont undermine the fragile natural balance of arid areas. Proper understanding of such landscapes will be of enormous help in preserving our world and the quality of life of the huge population that inhabits such regions. Aridscapes presents numerous examples of oases, gardens and agriculture in the desert, providing a demonstration of how it is possible to work with an initially hostile landscape. The issue of protecting the landscape versus regional development is also addressed via a number of notable examples. This analysis of the different ways of intervening in arid environments opens up new perspectives when it comes to tackling landscape design projects undertaken in areas that are not so extreme from the climactic point of view and thereby enriches our way of understanding the landscape that surrounds us.
