In this way, he argued that our cities, industries and farms could avoid major natural hazards and become truly regenerative. McHarg (1920-2001) was one of the most influential environmental planners and landscape architects of the 20th century.īy “design with nature” McHarg meant that the way we occupy and modify the earth is best when it is planned and designed with careful regard to both the ecology and the character of the landscape.

Renowned for his book “Design with Nature” Ian L. 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.Richard Weller, Frederick Steiner, and Billy Fleming Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a 'user's manual for our world,' Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankind's place in nature and nature's place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. 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. 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 'This century's most influential landscape architecture book.' -Landscape Architecture 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. '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

Design With Nature by Ian L. McHarg