Ian L. McHarg

his book

commentary on his book

The relation of Design with Nature to the ecological planning method of identifying competing values.

"Each year I confront a new generation. . . . The audience, in common with western society at large, believes that the world, if not the universe, consists of a dialogue between men . . . . Nature is then an irrelevant backdrop to the human play called Progress or Profit. If nature is brought to the foreground, it is only to be conquered – man versus nature.

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Ecological Planning Method, McHarg's model.

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"if we can create the humane city... then the choice will be between two excellences, each indispensable, each different, both complementary, both life enhancing . . . humans in nature."

Ian McHarg, p. 2

The world is a abundant, we require only a deference born of understanding to fulfill man’s promise. . . . He must become the steward of the biosphere. To do this he must design with nature.

page 5.

Vermeer's landscape painting of Delft, Netherlands

Ian McHarg, Design with Nature (1969).

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Introduction by Lewis Mumford


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• 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 of Values
• The Naturalists
• The River Basin
• The Metropolitan Region
• Process and Form
• The City: Process & Form
• The City: Health and Pathology
• Prospect

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Ian McHarg, Design with Nature. (Garden City, New York: Natural History Press, 1969.)

 

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