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The Ecological Design and Planning Read

  • For the first time, important classic and contemporary published works in ecological design and planning in one volume -The essays and Ndubisi's framework offer a critical analysis and synthesis of key issues -Offers historic and contemporary case studies of exemplary practice as well as emerging frameworks for intervention -Provides an agenda for issues to be addressed by scholars and researchers in balancing human use with ecological concerns

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

  1. Substantive Theory

    1. Open space from Natural Processes

      • Ian L. McHarg
      Pages 181-190
    2. An Introduction to Ecological Design

      • Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan
      Pages 191-202
    3. The strategy of Ecosystem development

      • Eugene P. Odum
      Pages 203-216
    4. Foundations

      • Richard T. T. Forman
      Pages 217-234
  2. Procedural Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Introduction to Part Four

      • Forster O. Ndubisi
      Pages 237-242
    3. The First Landscape-suitability Approach

      • Forster Ndubisi
      Pages 243-265
    4. Introduction

      • John Tillman Lyle
      Pages 266-278
    5. Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the use of the Land

      • V. H. Dale, S. Brown, R. A. Haeuber, N. T. Hobbs, N. Huntly, R. J. Naiman et al.
      Pages 279-298
    6. Basic Principles for Molding Land Mosaics

      • Richard T. T. Forman
      Pages 299-319
    7. Introduction

      • Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, Mary Lee York
      Pages 320-331
  3. Methods and Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
    2. Introduction to Part Five

      • Forster O. Ndubisi
      Pages 335-340
    3. The Art of site Planning

      • Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack
      Pages 368-378
    4. Processes

      • Danilo Palazzo, Frederick Steiner
      Pages 379-389
    5. Framing the Land use Plan: A Systems Approach

      • William M. Marsh
      Pages 396-403

About this book

From Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural environment to accommodate our daily needs for food, work, shelter, and recreation are greatly intensified. Concerted efforts to balance human use with ecological concerns are needed now more than ever. In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader Professor Ndubisi offers refreshing insights into key themes that shape the theory and practice of ecological design and planning. He has assembled, synthesized, and framed selected seminal published scholarly works in the field from the past one hundred and fifty years, ending with a suggested agenda for future research and analysis in ecological design and planning. This is the first volume to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the history, evolution, theory, methods, and exemplary practice of ecological design and planning. The collection provides students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners of landscape architecture, urban design, land use planning, and related fields with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and our natural environment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, College Station Texas, USA

    Forster O. Ndubisi

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