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ix, 197 p. ill. ; (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. 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.'' Contents : Preface v -- Introduction x -- City and Countryside 1 -- Sea and Survival 7 -- The Plight 19 -- A Step Forward 31 -- The Cast and the Capsule 43 -- Nature in the Metropolis 55 -- On Values 67 -- A Response of Values 79 -- The World is a Capsule 95 -- Processes as Values 103 -- The Naturalists 117 -- The River Basin 127 -- The Metropolitan Region 153 -- Process and form 163 -- The City : Process and Form 175 -- The City : Health and Pathology 187 -- Prospect 196 -- Ian L. McHarg. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, 1969. n-us--- Environmental policy United States Nature Effect of human beings on Human ecology Human beings Effect of environment on Regional planning Environmental aspects Architecture environmental aspects City planning--Environmental aspects Ecología humana United States HC110.E5 M33 1992 304.2 0471557978 91036694 pucpr 022510 20241107161943.0 eng