andrew doyle. "The Land Unit"

The article begins by several methods and ideas, such as how a land unit survey can serve as a preliminary tool for landscape analysis. It mentioned how a resulting map can either be expressed in several maps (separate soil, vegetation, land use, and land form maps) or a single value map. Moreover, the notion of holistic design is explored stating that one must study a subject as a whole. including all of its parts at different scales in order to truly understand it. This translates into our regional study of Poverty Point in studio, and how important it is to not only explore the site scale but how the systems operate on a larger scale as well. One way to achieve this, unfamiliar to me, as mentioned in the article is to approach land units as topological or chorological. Meaning that material exchanges happen vertically/ within a given unit, or horizontal/ across land units respectively. This new way of classification may help give a new way of approaching the task of assigning landscape suitability.