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Reconsidering Ian McHarg

Reconsidering Ian McHarg

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0367092425
ISBN13: 9780367092429
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban development. The road was paved with good intentions. But where exactly did it lead? And where do we go from here?Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg's lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg's idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have delayed the kind of urban redevelopment needed to make today's cities more sustainable.

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