LAAR 547 - Landscape Performance Assessment Methods & Systems

3 Credits

This is an interdisciplinary course that orients students to methods and rating systems of assessing performance of built and proposed landscape architecture projects. Methods and rating systems that will be covered in this course are drawn from landscape as well as other disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, engineering and industrial ecology and will include: landscape focused-Sustainable SITES initiative, green building and site planning oriented LEEDS rating system, Life cycle assessment, ecological footprint, design for environment and Instructor developed-methods.