The designer's one-stop resource to green roofs that merges landscape and architecture

Green Roof Systems offers substantive and technical information on living green roofs and landscapes over structure. It goes beyond a mere overview of the green roof movement by providing reliable advice on building ecologically practical, accessible, and useful open spaces over structures.

From planning and collaboration to successfully handling the technical aspects of green roof systems, components, and applications-this single-source reference:
* Explains the environmental, social, and economic benefits of turning the underutilized surfaces of roofs into multifunctional systems
* Features a comprehensive, system-based approach to understanding, designing, building, and maintaining green roofs in an urban environment
* Examines the ins-and-outs of green roofs from a technical perspective
* Offers design and technological material alongside issues surrounding urban design and planning, engineering, architectural and landscape architectural considerations, and stormwater management