ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the landscape architecture site analysis process, and suggests a new workflow using digital tools. It explains the case study project done in Haiti to illustrate how to use dynamic visualization in the site analysis process. Dynamic visualization may make site analysis dynamic in two ways. One, it is relatively easy to animate information now. Programs that animate drawn diagrams, time-lapse images, and video can relate information about ecological processes to professional collaborators and stakeholders so the complexities of sites can be understood with minimal abstraction. Second, information can become dynamic through integrating narratives about sites. Dynamic visualization, incorporated into the traditional site analysis process, does have the capability to weave together accessible stories to help the landscape architect advocate to allied professions, clients, and other stakeholders how to develop sites sustainably. Site analysis is important. It is an essential method to optimize the relationship between land development and ecological function.
