Basic principles, techniques, and skills for creating sustainable infrastructures of built landscapes. Basic concepts of plant taxonomy, plant community structure, earthwork, water management, and landscape structures. Considerations of sustainability of construction materials and processes and how landscape infrastructures relate to climate change adaptation. Skills in creating technical construction drawings. Consideration of construction costs including economic cost and carbon footprints. Understanding of local building codes and introduction to the ADA.
prereq: Master of Landscape Architecture Student, [or instr consent]