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Paperback $25.00 ISBN: 9781597261173 Published November 2006

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The Essential Ian McHarg

Writings on Design and Nature

The Essential Ian McHarg
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Ian L. McHarg; Edited by Frederick R. Steiner

192 pages | 6 x 9

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.

Table of Contents

Man and Environment
The Place of Nature in the City of Man
Ecological Determinism
Values, Process, and Form
Open Space from Natural Processes
Ecological Planning: The Planner as Catalyst
Human Ecological Planning at Pennsylvania
Landscape Architecture
Natural Factors in Planning
Ecology and Design
Complete Bibliography of Ian McHarg

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