The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature

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Island Press, 13 nov 2006 - 164 pagine
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The Essential Ian McHarg brings together a series of short essays that reveal the full range of Ian McHarg's thoughts on design and nature. Adapted from the comprehensive book of his work, To Heal the Earth, these carefully selected essays provide an ideal reader for undergraduate and graduate students in planning and landscape architecture.

 

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Man and Environment 1963
1
The Place of Nature in the City of Man 1964
15
Ecological Determinism 1966
30
Values Process and Form 1968
47
Open Space from Natural Processes 1970
62
Ecological Planning The Planner as Catlyst 1978
86
Human Ecological Planning at Pennsylvania 1981
90
Landscape Architecture 1997
104
Natural Factors in Planning 1997
110
Ecology and Design 1997
122
Complete Bibliography of Ian L McHarg
131
Acknowledgment of Sources
159
Index
160
Board of Directors
165
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The late Ian McHarg founded the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning in 1954. He chaired the department until 1986 and continued to teach at Penn as a professor emeritus until his death in 2001. His books include Design with Nature and A Quest for Life. He co-edited the comprehensive selected collection of his writings, To Heal the Earth, with Frederick Steiner.

Frederick Steiner is the dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead and The Living Landscape.

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TitoloThe Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature
EBSCO ebook academic collection
AutoreIan L. McHarg
CuratoreFrederick R. Steiner
EditoreIsland Press, 2006
ISBN1597261173, 9781597261173
Lunghezza164 pagine
  
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