Description
“. . . an enduring contribution to the technical literature of landscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection of writings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance of ecological principles in regional planning.” –Landscape and Urban Planning
In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by storm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankind’s place in nature and nature’s place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a “user’s manual for our world,” Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. In so doing, it provides nothing less than the scientific, technical, and philosophical foundations for a mature civilization that will, as Lewis Mumford ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition, “replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized, explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes.”
CONTENTS
- City and Countryside.
- Sea and Survival.
- The Plight.
- A Step Forward.
- The Cast and the Capsule.
- Nature in the Metropolis.
- On Values.
- A Response of Values.
- The World Is a Capsule.
- Processes as Values.
- The Naturalists.
- The River Basin.
- The Metropolitan Region.
- Process and Form.
- The City: Process and Form.
- The City: Health and Pathology.
- Prospect.
200 pages / 28 x 28 cm / English
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