International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2015)
Published
Table of contents
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Effective Site Planning For Sustainable Development
Abstract: Site Planning involves the organization of built mass with the outdoor spaces to meet human needs and desires while protecting, conserving or enhancing natural environment and processes. However, the creation of spaces that meet social, environmental, cultural, aesthetic and practical requirements of the people in the best possible way define the Effective Site Planning. The analysis of site helps in the assessment of potential and constraints of the site. Site …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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Historic Gardens – Patterns of Nature and Culture
Abstract: Historically, the way Landscape and the gardens were treated, depended upon the attitude and view of the people towards nature. Landscape and gardens have been viewed and designed differently in the Eastern and Western cultures. Nature can be dominated and controlled and made to serve humans is the view generally attributed to the west. Harmony and co-existence with nature and the action taken not to radically change nature but to …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 19–28 Read article
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Study of Environment-Behaviour to Examine Intervention Impact at the Lakefront Landscape and Neighbourhood Residents’ Response at Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Abstract: Professional interventions at the neighbourhood lakefront environments often produce superficially pleasant environment, brushing aside the place perception and place attachment of the neighbourhood residents. This research principally aimed to grasp a holistic apprehension of such an intervention entitled as ‘Dhanmondi lake redevelopment project’, initiated in 1998 by the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Bangladesh. An in-depth investigation revealed the gap between the designer’s objective in transforming the waterfront environment and end-user’s …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 9–18 Read article