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Critical Planning and DesignAll the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969

Critical Planning and Design: All the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian... [In McHaig biography there are events, relations, and profiles that let us better understand his book Design with Nature: the love for nature cultivated in the childhood hiking, the passion of rhetoric speech learned by the missionary father, the committeement to reconstruction of a better world after the war, his popularity in TV broadcast, and his prestige at top government officials. Design with Nature concentrate the best the author can teach as a reflective practitioner and leading academic. It is also a pivot of a cultural movement and a powerful fuel of progressive politics. In modernism urbanism we found two trends: the rational, with anthropocentric bias; the organic, coming from Geddes (1915), and developed by McHarg. After the book was written, and the urban change in progressed, two critical thinking were borne in the University of Pennsylvania, one claiming for social equity starting from Davidoff and the other for ecological sustainability from McHarg. Because now each of them compete for primacy, the suggestion of this paper is that their cooperation should be better fruitful because they could—as is needed—integrate ecology and equity in the next urban and regional change. Put in this track that book will still be a central knowledge in planners training.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Planning and DesignAll the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Perrone, Camilla
Moccia, Francesco Domenico
Critical Planning and Design — Jul 24, 2022
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[In McHaig biography there are events, relations, and profiles that let us better understand his book Design with Nature: the love for nature cultivated in the childhood hiking, the passion of rhetoric speech learned by the missionary father, the committeement to reconstruction of a better world after the war, his popularity in TV broadcast, and his prestige at top government officials. Design with Nature concentrate the best the author can teach as a reflective practitioner and leading academic. It is also a pivot of a cultural movement and a powerful fuel of progressive politics. In modernism urbanism we found two trends: the rational, with anthropocentric bias; the organic, coming from Geddes (1915), and developed by McHarg. After the book was written, and the urban change in progressed, two critical thinking were borne in the University of Pennsylvania, one claiming for social equity starting from Davidoff and the other for ecological sustainability from McHarg. Because now each of them compete for primacy, the suggestion of this paper is that their cooperation should be better fruitful because they could—as is needed—integrate ecology and equity in the next urban and regional change. Put in this track that book will still be a central knowledge in planners training.]

Published: Jul 24, 2022

Keywords: Landscape; Regional planning; CBD; Overlay mapping; Planning theory; Nature

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