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  • The Living Landscape, Second Edition

    An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    The Living Landscape is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Essential Ian McHarg

    Writings on Design and Nature

    by Ian L. McHarg ...
    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. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Making Plans

    How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    “Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Human Ecology

    Following Nature's Lead

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Human ecology is an emerging discipline that studies the interrelationships between humans and their environment, drawing on insights from biology, sociology, anthropology, geography, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and conservation. A vast, multidisciplinary literature underscores this approach, and in Human Ecology, noted landscape planner Frederick Steiner ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Urban Ecological Design

    A Process for Regenerative Places

    by Danilo Palazzo, Frederick R. Steiner ...
    This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • To Heal the Earth

    Selected Writings Of Ian L. McHarg

    by Ian L. McHarg ...
    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, ... Read more

    $48.29 USD