The Living Landscape: an Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

Course Value: 10 marks (5%)

Please answer the following questions from the text and do so in sentence format, wordprocessed – not point form. BRING TEXT TO CLASS.

1. In the introduction, list the various types of plans Steiner identifies. How do Landscape Plans build on these various types of plans?

2. What are the contents of the National Parks Service (NPS) general management plans? How are they different from traditional city or county planning?

3. The text identifies four key elements included in a landscape. Describe each of these four elements in a short paragraph.

4. Explain the meaning and the relationships between the terms, goals, objectives and strategies as set out in the text.

5. What is the purpose and contents of the Landscape Plan Map?

6. In the Comprehensive Management Plan for the New Jersey Pinelands, describe the development credit program and the purpose of the program.

7. What were the three main issues that residents of Teller CountyCity of Woodland Park, Colorado were trying to address and what was the source of the issues?

8. How are the Pinelands and Teller County plans different from conventional comprehensive plans as set out on p. 269 of the text.