LARC 160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Green Roof, Landscape Architecture, Complete Streets
27 Jan 2016
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Behavior mapping: looking how people use an area, move, and congregate. William whyte principle/guideline: good urban area is made up of food, water, triangulation, and sunlight. Evergreen tree: needle like leaves don"t fall off. Canopy tree : tree that grow up and above others. Plant habitat: the local living environment of an organism. Plant community/association: plant communities/plant community association are plants that like to grow next to each other to exchange nutrients. Never plant plants that are not in the same community together because they require different nutrients causing one plant to die. Xeriscaping: minimizing water use, plants that don"t need a lot of attention. Hardiness zone: areas that is geographically defined with specific category of plant life. Defined by temperature (minimum degrees a plant can withstand). Plants in their natural habitat : native plants. Floodplain: a floodplain is an area of land that is prone to flooding.
