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Sustainable Landscape Performance | TSM 2200 | Hongbing Tang

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Landscape performance is a vital part of landscape architectural research, education, and practice. Landscape performance evaluation is used to assess the impact of a multi-benefit landscape solution by quantifying environmental, social, and economic outcomes of a built project related to its goals and objectives. Evaluating the performance of built projects and learning from those past impacts can inform goals and design on future projects. 

This course will provide students with an understanding of landscape performance and help them gain the basic skills they need to plan for, assess, and convey the impact of landscape projects. Students will be introduced to the concept of landscape performance and methodology in measuring various outcomes. They will examine Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)'s Case Study Investigation (CSI) series as precedent studies. Subsequently, students will gain knowledge and learn methods on how to measure environmental, social, and economic benefits of built projects. In the second half of the semester, students will work on locally built projects to conduct landscape performance evaluation and produce a final project report. They will take human research protection training prior to the start of the term project. - Tang