Architecture & Landscape

Background

The historic roots of GIS lies within Landscape Architecture - from the geographer Roger Tomlinson  and mapping forestry land use within the Canada Geographic Information System; to Ian McHarg and the foundational overlay analysis techniques in Design with Nature; and Jack Dangermond - the founder of Esri founder with its pivitol GIS software provision. 

GIS provides landscape architects with spatial data frameworks to analyze environmental contexts, model terrain, and evaluate design performance.

GIS is taught across all Landscape Architecture programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. You can see some examples of how GIS is used within Landscape Architecture below.

Mapping inequalities in greenspace provision

Work in progress

Mapping inequalities in playground provision

Work in progress

Use of GIS within measuring the health and wellbeing benefits of urban greenspace

Work in progress

Contact

Please email Dr Paul Brindley @ p.brindley@sheffield.ac.uk

Paul has over 20 years experience of GIS within academia, with over 80 peer reviewed publications and having worked on over 50 funded research projects. Click here to find out more about his work.