Design with Nature
Author: McHarg Summary: A canonical text that reshaped design and planning disciplines about a concern for the environment and nature. This is about considering nature and man as complementary: a practice of ecological design that sees nature as a relative value system (as offering opportunities and limitations for human activities) that can inform the optimal location of human activities. Development should seek to preserve and enhance the characteristics of site in which it takes place through the built environment, rather than obliterate them, in designing with nature....