Basics Landscape Architecture 02‎:‎ Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects‎.‎ It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format‎.‎ Focusing primarily on urban environments‎,‎ this book examines the relationships between ecological design theory and design methods‎.‎ It describes and illustrates the basic structures and functions of natural and human systems through landscape ecology principles and the dynamics of landscape processes‎.‎