207-412 Plants and the Urban Environment
The relationships between urban vegetation and the environment in which it grows. The relationships between climate parameters and plant performance, urban meso- and microclimatic variation and plant responses to this variation, climate change and landscape management, identifying and specifying soil resources for landscape projects, specialized urban soils (roof-gardens, containers and planters, wetlands, load-bearing soils), water-sensitive urban design and the managing of irrigation of urban landscapes. The relationships between urban vegetation and the environment in which it grows. The relationships between climate parameters and plant performance, urban meso- and microclimatic variation and plant responses to this variation, climate change and landscape management, identifying and specifying soil resources for landscape projects, specialized urban soils (roof-gardens, containers and planters, wetlands, load-bearing soils), water-sensitive urban design and the managing of irrigation of urban landscapes.
At the conclusion of the you should be able to demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between the urban climatic environment and plant performance; of water-sensitive urban design; of the use of specialized urban soils and of the management of urban irrigation.
For full subject description please go to the handbook entry for 207-412 Environments of Urban Landscapes
This subject is taught by Mr Nick Williams.