Design with nature

by McHarg, Ian L.

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Title Statements

Full title :Design with nature / Ian L. McHarg.

Summary

[This book] has done much to shape public environmental policy, internationally, over the past twenty years. It has helped redefine the fields of town planning, community planning, and ecological planning. [It has also contributed to] the discussion of humanity's place in nature and nature's place in humanity within the humanities and physical sciences. [This book also] offer[s] a viable synthesis of scientific insight and constructive environmental design. [The author] explore[s] the relationship between the built environment and nature and how to use both to their fullest potential, without being destructive. [The author's] purpose was not to impose design constraints but to use what nature offers to the fullest.-Dust jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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The Physical Object

Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn472461333
Dewey Decimal:301.31

City and countryside -- Sea and survival -- Plight -- Step forward -- Cast and the capsule -- Nature in the metropolis -- On values -- Response of values -- World is a capsule -- Processes as values -- Naturalists -- River basin -- Metropolitan region -- Process and form -- City, process and form -- City, health and pathology -- Prospect.