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To Heal the Earth : Selected Writings of Ian L. McHarg by McHarg, Ian L;Yaro, Robert(Foreword);Steiner, Frederick R(Editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ian L. McHarg's landmark book Design with Nature changed the face of landscape architecture and planning by promoting the idea that the design of human settlements should be based on ecological principles. McHarg was one of the earliest and most influential proponents of the notion that an understanding of the processes that form landscapes should underlie design decisions. In To Heal the Earth, McHarg has joined with Frederick Steiner, a noted scholar of landscape architecture and planning, to bring forth a valuable cache of his writings produced between the 1950s and the 1990s. McHarg and Steiner have each provided original material that links the writings together, and places them within the historical context of planning design work and within the larger field of ecological planning as practiced today. The book moves from the theoretical-beginning with the 1962 essay'Man and Environment'which sets forth the themes of religion, science, and creativity that emerge and reappear throughout McHarg's work -- to the practical, including discussions of methods and techniques for ecological planning as well as case studies. Other sections address the link between ecology and design, and

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Author

McHarg, Ian L;Yaro, Robert(Foreword);Steiner, Frederick R(Editor)

Publisher

Island Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597269223

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Architecture, Biology