Designing landscapes with Google SketchUp.
Landscape architects can now use the powerful tools of Google SketchUp for their own practices. This focused, illustrated guide details the capabilities of Google SketchUp and describes techniques that best incorporate SketchUp into a landscape architecture-and-design firm. Landscape architects will learn how to use the software to:
* Efficiently use SketchUp within project scopes, fees and services
* Integrate SketchUp into each design phase: schematic, design, design development and construction documents
* Use step-by-step techniques for modeling a variety of different project types including terrain modeling
* Understand the system requirements and limitations of the software
* Design and depict spaces and environments that include plazas and civic spaces, pedestrian malls, streetscapes, parks and park amenities, recreation areas, playgrounds, trails, bio-swales and natural systems, and master planning for universities, communities and cities
