Design with nature

McHarg, Ian L. (Author). American Museum of Natural History. (Added Author).

Summary: The first book to describe an ecologically sound approach to the planning and design of communities, Design with Nature has done much over the past 25 years to shape public environmental policy. This paperback edition makes this classic accessible to a wider audience than ever before. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 color photos and line drawings. -- Amazon

Record details

Physical Description: print
viii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Published for the American Museum of Natural History ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday/Natural History Press, 1971, ©1969.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	City and countryside -- Sea and survival -- The plight -- A step forward -- The cast and the capsule -- Nature in the metropolis -- On values -- A response to values -- The world is a capsule -- Processes as values -- The naturalists -- The river basin -- The metropolitan region -- Process and form -- The city : process and form -- The city : health and pathology -- Prospect.