''In presenting us with a vision of organic
exuberance and human delight, which ecology and
ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg
revives the hope for a better world.'' --Lewis Mumford
''...important to America and all the rest of the world
in our struggle to design rational, wholesome, and
productive landscapes.'' --Laurie Olin, Hanna Olin, Ltd.
''This century's most influential landscape architecture
book.'' --Landscape Architecture ''...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.'' |
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