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050 0 0 _aNA9053.E58
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245 0 0 _aNature and cities :
_bthe ecological imperative in urban design and planning /
_cEdited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell.
263 _a1611
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
_c2016.
300 _a465 pages :
_bIllus.
_fbook
_c30cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aThe Landscape Today and the Challenges Ahead / George F. Thompson, Frederick R. Steiner, and Armando Carbonell -- The Ecological Imagination: Life in the City and the Public Realm / James Corner -- The City Is Not an Egg: Western Urbanization in Relation to Changing Conceptions of Nature / Richard Weller -- The Granite Garden: Where Do We Stand Today? / Anne Whiston Spirn -- The Landscape Architect as Urbanist of Our Age / Charles Waldheim -- Creating Deep Forms in Urban Nature: The Peasant’s Approach to Urban Design / Kongjian Yu -- Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance Design / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- Creative Fitting: Toward Designing the City as Nature / Jose Alminaña and Carol Franklin -- Adaption and Regeneration: A Pathway to New Urban Places / Forster Ndubisi -- The Role of Utopia in Ecological Planning and Design / Danilo Palazzo -- WPA 2.0: Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of Twenty-First Century Public Infrastructure / Susannah Drake -- New Directions in Urban Nature: The Power and Promise of Biophilic Cities and Blue Urbanism / Timothy Beatley -- Gardening the Bay: Participatory Frameworks for Ecological and Economic Change / Kate Orff -- Resilience Beyond Rhetoric in Urban Design / Nina-Marie E. Lister -- Projective Ecologies in Urban Design and Planning / Chris Reed -- Form Follows Flows: Systems, Design, and the Aesthetic Experience of Ecological Change / Kristina Hill -- Water, Nature in Cities, and the Art of Landscape Design / Laurie Olin -- Prospects for Urban Ecological Design and Planning / Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell.
520 _a"A compilation of essays by leading international landscape architects, city planners, urban designers, and architects about the need for ecological urban design. Chapters explore the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities, including urban green spaces, streetscapes, and buildings"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCity planning
_xEnvironmental aspects.
650 0 _aSustainable urban development.
700 1 _aSteiner, Frederick R.,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aThompson, George F.,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aCarbonell, Armando,
_d1951-
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_tNature and cities
_dCambridge, Massachusetts : The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016
_z9781558443488
_w(DLC) 2016008538
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