Conservation of natural resources requires a design
		J. Siry
	The Design Process
includes steps to inventory, analyze and synthesize your site, its features, assets, liabilities and conditions so as to distinguish obstacles from opportunities and overcome inherent limitations.
	Inventory | Analysis | Synthesis

Site survey

Inventory begins by our making a list what exists examine constraints put parts together.

Coastal North Carolina's "Outer Banks"

Original site of the lighthouse established on Cape Hattaras, North Carolina

context: parts of whole

natural and social

Natural:

context	attributes	outcomes
Elements		Analysis
Site		Naturally speaking any place is really an overlay of seven to eight feature maps
geology
altitude
soil profile
hydrology		aquifer recharge
drainage
vegetation	wildlife
		Synthesis

Natural features compiled

• Inventory of elements
• findings and analysis of the site
• synthesis of native conditions

Synthesis

context		outcomes
social:	land-use plan architectural concepts zoning	Product Social factors include existing land survey systems, land-use patterns, structures and civic attributes of a site.   Synthesis
		alternatives
density	structure	strategic services

Social considerations require a synthesis of the analytical factors that begin with density, involve structural considerations of surroundings and existing elements and include the essential services that the structures are intended to sustain in the community.

Any Design Process must consider each of these facets of good composition:

goals & objectives

strategic vs. tactical

market failures

Ecological planning and design

ecosystem management

ecological services

• American Academy for the Advancement of Science, AAAS: Atlas.
• Environmental topics portal for the web.
• Inside the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.
• New York Public Library.
• Population Reference Bureau,
• US Geological Survey, USGS.
• World Resources Institute, WRI