LAS653: Landscape Architecture Research Method / College of Built Environment

The course is designed to gain an understanding of the nature and utility of research to inform landscape planning and design process. It focuses on developing the understanding of the complex relationships between people and their physical surrounding, which is essential for successful landscape design. With this caveat, the course provide an array of tools, which includes mapping as well as qualitative and quantitative methods, to make inquiry inot landscape architecture research topics and to translate research findings into realistic and usable strategies and solutions. The course builds the foundation to explore individual interest for a topical study and how to go about conducting research to address these interests.