People in a landscape

Eckbo, Garrett. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0133866408
ISBN: 9780133866407
Physical Description: print
x, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-270) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The world according to Garrett Eckbo -- Futurology -- How we see the world -- Social landscape poetics -- State of the world -- Contextualism -- Density -- Accumulation -- Ecological boundaries, borders, and visual scales -- The American way -- Democracy -- Urban culture -- Social and environmental activism -- Nature plus society equals environment -- Culture and nature -- The power pyramid of design -- Players in planning and design -- Urban design - urban or urbane? -- Professional designers versus political activists -- Nationalism and ecological reconstruction -- Regional planning -- State and open space planning in California -- Regional spatial design -- Design process -- Spatial composition from a greater vocabulary -- Science and art -- Comparison of architecture theory to landscape theory -- Planning : Putting away the dart boards -- Developing cities and towns -- Land and people -- A plan, a plan, a plan -- Landscape as objet d'art -- Construction; parasite on nature -- A crisis is brewing; what to do! -- New attitudes : Experiencing the environment -- The good designer -- Calls for action -- The new age of landscapes -- Design and nature -- The design professional in ecological world reconstruction -- The academy of ecological-environmental design and planning -- The CEQ and CSA -- Overpopulation, overurbanization, overindustrialization, and visions -- Integration of technology and nature -- How does the world work? -- Building a brave new world -- Brave new world for whom? -- Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier -- Survey of literature.