Nature and Cities - The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning
The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning
Published on 21. November 2016
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-1-55844-347-1 (ISBN)
Description
Deemed "one of the best books of 2016" by the American Society of Landscape Architects' The Dirt, this illustrated collection of essays by leading international architects, landscape architects, city planners, and urban designers demonstrates the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: Up to 99 years
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
294 color photos & figures, 66 b-w figures
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 302 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
2786 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55844-347-1 (9781558443471)
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Persons
Frederick Steiner serves as the dean and Paley Professor for the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
George F. Thompson has been a professional editor and publisher since 1984.
Armando Carbonell is vice president of programs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
George F. Thompson has been a professional editor and publisher since 1984.
Armando Carbonell is vice president of programs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Content
George F. Thompson, Frederick R. Steiner, and Armando Carbonell
The Landscape Today and the Challenges Ahead
James Corner
The Ecological Imagination: Life in the City and the Public Realm
Richard Weller
The City Is Not an Egg: Western Urbanization in Relation to Changing Conceptions of Nature
Anne Whiston Spirn
The Granite Garden: Where Do We Stand Today?
Charles Waldheim
The Landscape Architect as Urbanist of Our Age
Kongjian Yu
Creating Deep Forms in Urban Nature: The Peasant's Approach to Urban Design
Elizabeth K. Meyer
Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance Design
Jose Almiñana and Carol Franklin
Creative Fitting: Toward Designing the City as Nature
Forster Ndubisi
Adaption and Regeneration: A Pathway to New Urban Places
Danilo Palazzo
The Role of Utopia in Ecological Planning and Design
Susannah Drake
WPA 2.0: Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of Twenty-First Century Public Infrastructure
Timothy Beatley
New Directions in Urban Nature: The Power and Promise of Biophilic Cities and Blue Urbanism
Kate Orff
Gardening the Bay: Participatory Frameworks for Ecological and Economic Change
Nina-Marie E. Lister
Resilience Beyond Rhetoric in Urban Design
Chris Reed
Projective Ecologies in Urban Design and Planning
Kristina Hill
Form Follows Flows: Systems, Design, and the Aesthetic Experience of Ecological Change
Laurie Olin
Water, Nature in Cities, and the Art of Landscape Design
Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell
Afterword: Prospects for Urban Ecological Design and Planning
The Landscape Today and the Challenges Ahead
James Corner
The Ecological Imagination: Life in the City and the Public Realm
Richard Weller
The City Is Not an Egg: Western Urbanization in Relation to Changing Conceptions of Nature
Anne Whiston Spirn
The Granite Garden: Where Do We Stand Today?
Charles Waldheim
The Landscape Architect as Urbanist of Our Age
Kongjian Yu
Creating Deep Forms in Urban Nature: The Peasant's Approach to Urban Design
Elizabeth K. Meyer
Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance Design
Jose Almiñana and Carol Franklin
Creative Fitting: Toward Designing the City as Nature
Forster Ndubisi
Adaption and Regeneration: A Pathway to New Urban Places
Danilo Palazzo
The Role of Utopia in Ecological Planning and Design
Susannah Drake
WPA 2.0: Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of Twenty-First Century Public Infrastructure
Timothy Beatley
New Directions in Urban Nature: The Power and Promise of Biophilic Cities and Blue Urbanism
Kate Orff
Gardening the Bay: Participatory Frameworks for Ecological and Economic Change
Nina-Marie E. Lister
Resilience Beyond Rhetoric in Urban Design
Chris Reed
Projective Ecologies in Urban Design and Planning
Kristina Hill
Form Follows Flows: Systems, Design, and the Aesthetic Experience of Ecological Change
Laurie Olin
Water, Nature in Cities, and the Art of Landscape Design
Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell
Afterword: Prospects for Urban Ecological Design and Planning