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Design with Nature (25th Anniversary Ed.) by Ian L. McHarg
Design with Nature (25th Anniversary Ed.) by Ian L. McHarg
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Design with Nature (25th Anniversary Ed.) by Ian L. McHarg
Publisher: Wiley
US SRP: $70.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 1992
Pub Date: February 28, 1995
Physical Info: 0.6" H x 11.03" L x 11.04" W (1.98 lbs) 208 pages
In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world bystorm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankind's place in nature and nature's place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a "user's manual for our world," Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. In so doing, it provides nothing less than the scientific, technical, and philosophical foundations for a mature civilization that will, as Lewis Mumford ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition,"replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized, explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes."
IAN L. McHARG was the founder of and is professor emeritus in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Known as the father of ecological planning, his landmark design projects include The Woodlands, Texas, and Amelia Island, Florida. Professor McHarg has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including The National Medal of Art in 1990.
