Roadside Vegetation Concept and Planning Manual |
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Complete Manual (File size approximately 20 MB) |
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For users on slower connections, we offer four segmented downloads.
1 - The Covers
2 - Pages 2-108
3 - The Plant Palette
4 - Pages 121-166.
These are indicated by the links in the manual's contents listing below: |
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Covers (Download 1 - File size approximately 1 MB |
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Inside Cover (Download 2 - File size approximately 14 MB) |
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Acknowledgements |
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Preface |
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Table of Contents: |
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Introduction |
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Benefits and rationale for roadside landscape design and management |
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Objectives of the manual |
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Audiences for the manual |
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History and Tradition of Roadside Vegetation |
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Legislation relevant to roadside vegetation |
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History of roadside landscape design |
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Elements of landscape as they apply to roadsides |
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Public Opinion |
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Design Opportunities and Limiting Factors |
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Defining roadside zones |
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Clear zone distances |
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Drainage issues |
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Utility locations |
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Lines of sight |
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Erosion control |
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Functions of roadside vegetation |
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Landscape Planning Process |
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Site inventory |
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Roadway limitations |
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Climate and growth conditions |
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Cultural and historical characteristics |
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Design approach description and selection |
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Regional approach |
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Regional-ornamental approach |
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Fully ornamental approach |
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Selection |
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Landscape layers and elements |
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Ground layer |
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Shrub layer |
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Tree layer |
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Installation and maintenance strategies |
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Editing |
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Cutting back |
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Routine mowing |
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Periodic |
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Discontinued mowing |
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Deliberate planting |
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Illustrated examples |
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Examples of the regional design approach |
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Examples of the regional-ornamental design approach |
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Examples of the fully ornamental design approach |
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The Plant Palette: Charts by Plant Type (Download 3 - File size approximately 4 MB) |
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Cost Analysis (Download 4 - File size approximately 5 MB) |
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Appendices |
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Appendix A: Checklists-Inventory of Site Conditions |
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Appendix B: Cross Reference of Plant Palette by Common Name |
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Appendix C: Illustrated Plant Palette: Selected Examples |
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Appendix D: Recommended References |
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Literature Cited |
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Glossary |
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Index |
Written, edited and prepared by:
Susan Barton, University of Delaware
Rick Darke, Rick Darke LLC
Gary Schwetz, Delaware Center for Horticulture
Graphic Design by: Carrie Finnie
Produced under contract with the Delaware Department of Transportation,
Nathan Hayward III, Secretary
April 2005
A copy of this manual is available free of charge by e-mailing Dot Milsom at the University of Delaware.
dmilsom@udel.edu |
