景观绩效过去现状及未来.pdf

Landscape Performance: Past, Present, and Future Text by: Forster NDUBISI(US) Heather WHITLOW(US) Barbara DEUTSCH(US) Translation: DUAN Shi-le ZHANG Xue-wei Proofreading: LIU Jing-yi LI Ming-han Abstract: This paper provides a synopsis and discussion of landscape performance research and practice, especially in the United States a nd explores its future as a vehicle for creating sustainable, high-performing, and resilient landscapes. Performance evaluation has been employed in many disciplines for a variety of purposes since the early 1940s. In landscape architecture and planning, landscape performance has been defined as “a measure of the efficiency with which landscape solutions fuli ll their intended purpose and contribute toward achieving sustainability.” In this dei nition, sustainability is one of the major goals of a design and planning intervention. Performance assesses progress toward achieving the environmental, social, and economic goals based on measurable outcomes. This paper reviews the growing need for and the emergence of performance systems that strive to provide credible evidence (data and information) to support, guide and evaluate the outcomes of design decisions, with special