A computerized model for integrating the physical environmental factors into metropolitan landscape planning

Julius Gy Fabos; Kimball H. Ferris

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A computerized model for integrating the physical environmental factors into metropolitan landscape planning

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Authors:

Julius Gy Fabos, Kimball H. Ferris

Year:

1977

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Heisler, Gordon M.; Herrington, Lee P., eds. Proceedings of the conference on metropolitan physical environment; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-25. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 422-431

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Abstract

This paper justifies and illustrates (in simplified form) a landscape planning approach to the environmental management of the metropolitan landscape. The model utilizes a computerized assessment and mapping system, which exhibits a recent advancement in computer technology that allows for greater accuracy and the weighting of different values when mapping at the regional scale. It assesses resource, hazardous, and developmentally suitable areas in order to determine the consequences of development in these areas, and to channel development to the most environmentally appropriate of these areas.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the conference on metropolitan physical environment

Citation

Fabos, Julius Gy; Ferris, Kimball H. 1977. A computerized model for integrating the physical environmental factors into metropolitan landscape planning. In: Heisler, Gordon M.; Herrington, Lee P., eds. Proceedings of the conference on metropolitan physical environment; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-25. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 422-431