TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Alan
AU  - Sijmons,Dirk
ED  - Wouter Mikmak Foundation.
TI  - Systemic Design© can change the world: Utopia's practical cousin. 
T2  - Designers of the future
SN  - 9789085068761
AV  - HT391 B4344 2009
U1  - 745.4 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Sun
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Local
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Land use
N1  - Contents :
About the author 8 --
Reflections on the Present : Design schools and creation on knowledge 11 --
Historical Landscape Content and Contemporary Environmental Trends 11 --
Today ‘ s Urban Waste 12 --
Systemic Design and Research 13 --
P – REX : The Project For Reclamation Excellence 14 --
Mutation of Research into Practice 15 --
French Gulch Concept Plan and Systemic Reclamation 16 --
Drosscape and Systemic Urbanism 18 --
Sarkozy ‘ s Grand Paris and Toyota ‘ s Micropolis : Systematic Inteligence 19 --
The Pontine Marshes and Wetland + Dune Machines 20 --
A Landscape Lesson from Mussolini ‘ s Integrated Urbanism 20 --
A New Systemic Nature : The Wetland Machine 22 --
The Dune Machine 23 --
Coda 24 --
Acknowledments 25 --
Utopia ‘ s Practical Cousin Responded By Dirk Sijmons 88 --
Reflective 90 --
Responsive 91 --
Landscape Urbanism 92 --
Broadening the Agenda 95 --
Avoiding the collision with a Melting Iceberg 96 --


N2  - In his design lab P-REX, Alan Berger, Professor of Urbanism and Landscape Design, investigates the principle of Systemic Design. Systemic Design seeks to interact with the environmental, economic and programmatic stresses across regional territories. According to Berger this will lead to more intelligent project scenarios to address the most pressing environmental and social challenges of our time --
ER  -