The Environment and Landscape in Motorway Design

by Shuyu Tang, Guochao Qian, Min Zhang

The construction and operation of highways has a significant impact on the environment. While such impact is impossible to avoid, modern highways are constructed and landscaped to minimise these impacts as far as possible. Good landscaping minimises the impact on those living or working close to the highway, while at the same time regenerating the natural landscape disturbed during construction. Using as its background the successful landscape design...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118332970
• ISBN13: 9781118332979
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.6"