Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Toward landscape realism / Bart R. Johnson and Kristina Hill -- The authority of nature : conflict, confusion, and renewal in design, planning, and ecology / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Ecology's new paradigm : what does it offer designers and planners? / H. Ronald Pulliam and Bart R. Johnson -- The missing catalyst : design and planning with ecology roots / Richard T.T. Forman -- Lead or fade into obscurity : can landscape educators ask and answer useful questions about ecology? / Carolyn A. Adams -- What from ecology is relevant to design and planning? / James R. Karr -- Toward an inclusive concept of infrastructure / William E. Wenk -- Human health and design : an essay in two parts. 1. Exquisite communion : the body, landscape, and toxic exposures / Sandra Steingraber ; 2. Design and planning as healing arts : the broader context of health and environment / Kristina Hill -- Ecological science and landscape design : a necessary relationship in changing landscapes / Joan Iverson Nassauer -- On teaching ecological principles to designers / Carl Steinitz -- Looking beneath the surface : teaching a landscape ethic / Michael Hough -- In expectation of relationships : centering theories around ecological understanding / Kristina Hill ... [et al.] -- The nature of dialogue and the dialogue of nature : designers and ecologists in collaboration / Bart R. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Interweaving ecology in design and planning curricula / Ken Tamminga ... [et al.] -- Integrating ecology "across" the curriculum of landscape architecture / Jack Ahern ... [et al.] -- Building ecological understandings in design studio : a repertoire for a well-crafted learning experience / Kathy Poole ... [et al.] -- From theory to practice : educational outcomes in the world of professional practice / René Senos ... [et al.] -- Conclusions : Frameworks for learning / Kristina Hill and Bart R. Johnson.

Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development. Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology as a standard part of their courses and curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers models from successful programs. The book: examines the need for change in the education and practice of landscape architecture and in the physical planning and design professions as a whole asks what designers and physical planners need to know about ecology and what applied ecologists can learn from design and planning develops conceptual frameworks needed to realize an ecologically based approach to design and planning offers recommendations for the integration of ecology within a landscape architecture curriculum, as an example for other design fields such as civil engineering and architecture considers the implications for professional practice explores innovative approaches to collaboration among designers and ecologists In addition to the editors, contributors include Carolyn Adams, Jack Ahern, Richard T. T. Forman, Michael Hough, James Karr, Joan Iverson Nassauer, David Orr, Kathy Poole, H. Ronald Pulliam, Anne Whiston Spirn, Sandra Steingraber, Carl Steinitz, Ken Tamminga, and William Wenk. Ecology and Design represents an important guidepost and source of ideas for faculty, students, and professionals in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and architecture, landscape ecology, conservation biology and restoration ecology, civil and environmental engineering, and related fields.

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