Design with nature / Ian L. McHarg.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : J. Wiley, c1992.Description: ix, 197 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:- 0471557978
- 9780471114604
- 304.2 20
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | Course reserves |
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Reserve - Overnight loan | CYA Library | 304.2 MCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000007628 |
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, 1969.
"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."