CONTENTS Preface7 INTRODUCTION 9 Conveying ideas and planning aims in plans and images 10 Presentation methods in the past 11 Finding ideas and forms 20 Finding ideas and forms by drawing Finding ideas and forms by modelmaking PARTI FUNCTIONS 31 Plane - Two-dimensional presentations : possibilities and limitations 32 The ground plan as the basis for design 33 Height as a second dimension : sections and elevations 35 Plans and analyses of the existing fabric 36 Preliminary design and design plans 40 Sections and elevations 50 Landscape planning 58 Explanatory structural plans 60 Presentation drawings 62 Working plans 64 Space - Presentation of living spaces 66 Three-dimensional projections 71 Spatial representation by models 73 Parallel projections and perspectives 74 Perspective views 74 Bird's-eye view perspectives 88 Spatial representations for working planning 98 Physical and digital models 99 Time - The forth dimension 102 Change as a subject of design and presentation 102 Survey 104 Times of day 106 Seasons 110 The passage of time 112 Example : Transformations of an urban landscape : Bordeaux 114 Films 116 PART 2 CONCEPTS 121 Visual presentations over the course of the planning process 122 Example 1 : Beijing Yanshan Gas Implements Factory Park 123 Example 2 : Khalifa City C 130 Visual presentations for competitions 138 Example 1 : International Garden Show 2013 at Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg 139 Example 2 : Toronto Waterfront 146 Example 3: The High Line, New York 152 PARTS STRATEGIES 159 Urbanization : a challenge for sustainable landscape planning 160 Example : Ecological Infrastructure as the basis for a negative planning forTaizhou, China 161 Planning with climate change 170 Example 1: Retreat of the snow line 170 Example 2 : Sprawl landscape 173 Example 3 : Urban Growth: Delta and Beach Grove 174 Example 4 : Developments in the cityscape 177 Scenarios as a basis for guiding and designing the growth of major cities 178 Example : Scenarios of development for the city of Perth 179 APPENDIX 188 Illustration and film credits 188 About the author 188 Subject index 189 Index of practices and projects 190 Bibliography 191 Colophone DVD 192