"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and
human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open
up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis
Mumford
*"This century''s most influential landscape architecture
book." --Landscape Architecture
*In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic
world by storm, 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."
關於作者:
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, presented by President Bush in 1990.
目錄:
City and Countryside.
*The Plight.
*The Cast and the Capsule.
*On Values.
*The World Is a Capsule.
*The Naturalists.
*The Metropolitan Region.
*The City: Process and Form.
*Prospect.