Regional Landscape Design

LA 302

Paul Anderson and Mimi Wagner

• Course syllabus
• Course projects
  • Project 1 -- Perceptual investigation of the regional landscape
  • Project 2 -- Regional designers and their concepts
  • Project 3 -- Air photo interpretation and site analysis
  • Project 4 -- Road impacts and mitigation design
  • Project 5 -- Digital GIS data and tutorials
  • Project 6 -- Regional landscape design
• Course bibliography

COURSE SYLLABUS

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Course description and syllabus
  • ISU catalog description
  • Project characteristics
  • Regional design and you
  • Learning outcomes
  • Course specifics
• Semester overview
  • Course outline and schedule
  • Projects
  • Skills and activities

COURSE PROJECTS

Project 1 -- Perceptual investigation of the regional landscape

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement
• Grading rubric

The following JPG image file is available:

• Study area map for Anderson's section

Project 2 -- Regional designers and their concepts

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement
• Grading rubric
• Example abstract
• Abstracts and bibliographies
• Extra credit project statement

Project 3 -- Air photo interpretation and site analysis

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement 3-A for air photo interpretation
• Land cover classification for Anderson's section
• Cathy Brown's guide to photo interpretation classification
• Common land cover changes from air photo interpretation
• Project statement 3-B for site analysis
• Suitability table for site analysis
• Project statement 3-C for watershed sketch problem

The following JPG image files are available:

• Air photo index map for Anderson's section

• Orthophoto year for images from Iowa Geographic Image Map Server
• Aerial photo year for NWI maps

• Site analysis index map for Anderson's section

• Soil map for Anderson's section -- Section 25 (Dallas County)
• Soil map for Anderson's section -- Sections 29 & 30
• Soil map for Anderson's section -- Sections 27 (west portion) and Section 28
• Soil map for Anderson's section -- Sections 27 & 34 (east portion)

Project 4 -- Road impacts and mitigation design

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement 4-A for environmental report review
• Project statement 4-B for tracing overlay maps
• Project statement for Engeldinger Marsh field trip and mitigation program
• Project statement 4-D for mitigation design

The following JPG image files are available:

• DOT air photo of Engeldinger Marsh study area
• Polk County Conservation map of Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt

• Overlays of Engeldinger Marsh study area (soils, wetlands, slope, land cover)

Project 5 -- Digital GIS data and tutorials

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement 5 for digital GIS tutorials
• GIS Tutorial 1 for toboggan suitability
• GIS Tutorial 2 for agricultural suitability
• GIS Tutorial 3 for urban park suitability
• GIS Tutorial 4 for rural housing suitability
• GIS Tutorial 5 for land cover digitizing
• GIS Tutorial 6 for land cover change
• GIS Tutorial 7 for downloading data

The following JPG and GIF image files are available:

• Example maps for ArcView tutorials

• Little Beaver Creek topographic map for Anderson's section

Project 6 -- Regional landscape design

The following Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files) are available:

• Project statement 6-A for final project contemplations and preparation
• Project statement 6-B evaluation and schedule
• Programmatic guidelines
• Requirements for final design / planning projects

The following linked documents are available:

• Bioretention studies (from Lee Skabelund)

The following Excel documents (XLS files) are available:

• Agricultural statistics with product weights (from Bryan Wright--Version 3)
• Agricultural statistics with product weights (completed example from Bryan Wright--Version 3)
• Plant lists (colonizers and seed numbers) for Camp Dodge (from Cathy Mabry)

The following JPG and GIF image files are available:

• Study areas for Mimi's section and Paul's section

The following ArcView GIS data files are available:

• Study area shape files (Zipped) for Mimi's section (approx. 4,740 acres) and Paul's section (approx. 4,775 acres)
• Land cover shape files (Zipped) for Mimi's section for 1938 and 1994 and 2003
• Land cover shape files (Zipped) for Paul's section for 1990 and 2002 (thank you, Lara)
• Housing and agriculture shape files (Zipped) for Paul's section (thank you, Jason)

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Texts

Hanna, Karen C. 1999. GIS for Landscape Architects. ESRI Press, Redlands, CA.

Steiner, Frederick. 2000. The Living Landscape: an ecological approach to landscape planning. Second edition.  McGraw-Hill, New York.

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Burrough, P.A., and Rachel McDonnell. 1998. Principles of Geographical Information Systems. Oxford University Press, New York.

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