Design with Nature 25th Anniversary Edition

This was one of the required textbook reading when I attended school in the 80’s. It was fascinating then but moreso applicable now. We are seeing in a visceral and tangible way how lack of attention to the biological realities and its interaction with the environment is producing disasters after disaster.This is the reason why I have purchased this book again. It is filled with insight and thoughtful solutions, to problems we are just now understanding. I sincerely love Mr Mcharg’s handling of the information presented. The vibrancy of his language and thoughtful details as he connects the environmental dots. Much of his work was very much on the cutting edge of thought back then. Today it’s life!I would recommend this book most heartily and wish many more will take the challenge to understand things through the author’s eyes.

Helpful to plan and improve landscape

The book concerns the ecology of the world, especially the U.S. and Canada and its creation of North America.

Ian McHarg's Design with Nature revolutionized landscape planning just at the time when the modern built environment was being recognized for its devastating effects on natural systems. McHarg devised techniques for planners to envision not just the finished product of human development, but its complex interaction with watersheds, wildlife habitat, viewscapes and anything else that could be represented as a layer on a map. Fast forward to today....Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are complex databases that organize information into the "layers" that McHarg proposed. GIS analysis has found its way into urban planning, oil spill response, wildfire management, epidemiology, endangered species management, socio-economic analysis and many other forms of spatial planning and design. Maps that are products of GIS analysis are digital versions of the tissue and mylar overlays of McHarg's vision and technique. This book is essential reading -- not because planners aren't using its ideas (almost universally, with GIS, they are) but because they don't understand GIS's debt to McHarg's pioneering thinking.

Excelente contenido, pero el libro venía un poco usado, a pesar de que en ningún lado en la publicación decía ser usado. Los usados supuestamente eran más baratos.

Identical to 1971

Seller of this used book 5 star. As promised. Material is easy to read and I hope it help with testing.

I bought this on my Landscape Architect's suggestion, to help me understand his philosophy for steering nature rather than overriding nature.I was immediately drawn into the prose. It's quite a treatise, and deserves to be read attentively, not thumbed through. (Although it's admittedly fun to thumb through, owing to the interesting illustrations).