The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature - Softcover

McHarg, Ian L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597261173 ISBN 13: 9781597261173

Publisher: Island Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick Steiner is Dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Previously, he was Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas–Austin for 15 years. He has also taught planning, landscape architecture, and environmental science at Arizona State University, where he was Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design; Washington State University; and the University of Colorado–Denver.

Steiner is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and a presidential appointee to the national board of the American Institute of Architects. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in 1980, he conducted research on ecological planning at the Wageningen Agricultural and Environmental Science University, The Netherlands. In 1998 he was the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome. Steiner has written, edited, or co-edited 17 books.

Review:

"McHarg's words, his actions, and his works remain memorable and timely. His tersely expressed principles of working in collaborative partnerships of scientists, designers, and planners are as important today as when they were first published. Given the growing oil and energy issues, likely changes in transportation and food production, and resource wars relative to water, designing with nature, as a general truth applied to the healthy fit of people and their landscapes, is all the more important today. The Essential Ian McHarg and its 'Bibliography' will be all the more valuable to landscape architects and land planners in the coming decade."
(Landscape Architecture Magazine)

"Ian McHarg built bridges between nature and culture, planning and design, science and policy, and inspired a network of professions in the ecological use of land. A new generation of planners and designers seeking inspiration for a more sustainable future will find it in The Essential Ian McHarg, and pass his legacy to future generations."
(Paul Wack, AICP, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

"...provides a timely reminder of where we have been, what remains undone, and how we could go about doing better."
(Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Ethics)

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597261173
• ISBN 13: 9781597261173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Steiner Frederick R.