Design with Nature

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"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis Mumford ". . . important to America and all the rest of the world in our struggle to design rational wholesome and productive landscapes." --Laurie Olin Hanna Olin Ltd. "This centurys most influential landscape architecture book." --Landscape Architecture ". . . an enduring contribution to the technical literature of landscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection of writings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance of ecological principles in regional planning." --Landscape and Urban Planning In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by storm Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture urban and regional planning and ecological design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankinds place in nature and natures place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a "users manual for our world " Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. In so doing it provides nothing less than the scientific technical and philosophical foundations for a mature civilization that will as Lewis Mumford ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition "replace the polluted bulldozed machine-dominated dehumanized explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes."