Design with nature now. / txt
edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M'Closkey, and Billy Fleming.
- xiii, 351 pages : ill. ; photo. ; col. ; maps ; plans ; 27 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : design as a quest, not a task / Andrew Revkin -- Introduction : design in the anthropocene -- Design with nature : reflections, tributes, and inspirations. -- 1 Green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth / Frederick Steiner -- 2 McHarg : the long view, shortened / Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa -- 3 Thinking big : design with nature [crossed-out] culture / James Corner -- 4 Traverse before transect / Anuradha Mathur -- 5 A few choruses low down, but not so blue for Ian / Laurie Olin -- 6 A landscape of ideas and action : place, process, form, and language / Anne Whiston Spirn -- 7 The power of nature and/or the nature of power / Dana Tomlin -- 8 Ian Lennox McHarg, Scotland, and the emergence of green consciousness / Brian M. Evans -- 9 A book of days / Laurel McSherry -- Human ecology and design. -- 10 Nature as designer : emancipating nonhuman ecologies in an increasingly human world / Erle C. Ellis -- 11 Mapping urban nature and multispecies storyworlds / Ursula K. Heise -- Project : five themes. -- Big wilds. -- Great green wall (Africa) ; -- Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative (USA and Canada) ; -- National ecological security pattern plan (China) ; -- Malpai borderlands (Arizona and New Mexico, USA) ; -- Samboja Lestari (East Kalimantan, Indonesia) ; -- Landscape regeneration of western Waikeke Island (New Zealand) -- Rising tides. -- The BIG U (New York, New York, USA) ; -- A new urban ground (New York, New York, USA) ; -- Fingers of high ground (Norfolk, Virginia, USA) ; -- Zandmotor (Ter Heijde, The Netherlands) ; -- 2050--An energetic odyssey (North Sea, The Netherlands) -- Fresh waters. -- Healthy port futures (Great Lakes region, USA) ; -- Room for the river (The Netherlands) ; -- Los Angeles River master plan (California, USA) ; -- Weishan Wetland Park (Jining, China) ; -- GreenPlan Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) -- Toxic lands. -- Emscher Landscape Park (Ruhr Valley, Germany) ; -- Stapleton (Denver, Colorado, USA) ; -- Freshkills Park (New York, New York, USA) ; -- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (London, England) -- Urban futures. -- Barcelona metro region (Spain) ; -- Medellín (Colombia) ; -- Willamette River Basin (Oregon, USA) ; -- Qianhai Water City (Shenzhen, China) ; -- Envision Utah (Salt Lake City region, USA) -- Projects : commentaries. -- 17 The planetary optic and finding the real ground / Alan M. Berger and Jonah Susskind -- 18 Saved by a salt marsh / Thomas J. Campanella -- 19 Design with change / Rob Holmes -- 20 Hybrid thoughts / Kathleen John-Alder ; 21 Design on the edge (a dance between emergence and extinction) / Nina-Marie E. Lister -- 22 Landscape design and the democratic prospect / David W. Orr -- 23 Dump-heap naturalists / Catherine Seavitt Nordenson -- 24 The paradox of security / Allan W. Shearer -- 25 Ecology, scarcity, and the global south / Jillian Walliss -- 26 "Why do I have to be the man to bring you the bad news?" / William Whitaker.
"This collection of essays and illustrated projects by landscape architects and planners from PennDesign celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's book about regional planning using natural systems, Design with Nature; showcases ecological design projects from around the world; and demonstrates McHarg's influence on contemporary landscape architects and other practitioners"--
9781558443938 (hardcover) 1558443932
Landscape architecture. Sustainable architecture. Land use, Urban.