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Reflection
Traverse Before TransectRevista Land LinesJulio 2019By Anuradha MathurIan McHarg introduced me to the ecological transect. It situated me uniquely in the land to which I had recently arrived as a student from India, 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) away. I was not just...
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Remembrance
A Few Choruses Low Down, but Not So Blue for IanRevista Land LinesJulio 2019By Laurie OlinThe publication of Design with Nature forever changed the field of landscape architecture. The book, its ecological point of view, its rational method, and its author also had a significant and...
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Projects: Five Themes
From New York City to Jining, China, These Projects Exemplify the Principle of Designing with NatureRevista Land LinesJulio 2019Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy FlemingDesign with Nature Now spotlights 25 projects around the world that exemplify and extend Ian McHarg’s design philosophy. This article offers a glimpse of five such projects: the Malpai...
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Biography
“Why Do I Have to Be the Man to Bring You the Bad News?”Revista Land LinesJulio 2019By William WhitakerThe following is an excerpt from a longer essay in Design with Nature Now. Its title refers to the opening line of Ian McHarg’s speech at the first Earth Day in 1970. As a native of Clydebank,...
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Introduction
Design in the AnthropoceneRevista Land LinesJulio 2019By Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, and Frederick SteinerFifty years after the publication of Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature, a new volume pays tribute to his ideas. Published by the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of...
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President’s Message
Restoring Nature to Its Rightful PlaceRevista Land LinesJulio 2019“You’ve got no future!” Author and landscape ecologist Ian McHarg made that proclamation to thousands of people at the first Earth Day in 1970, hoping to open their eyes to society...
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Mensaje del presidente
Donde el agua se une con el sueloRevista Land LinesEnero 2019Hace cuatro años, me hallé en un avión sobre el delta del Colorado con Katie Lincoln, la presidenta de nuestra junta. Desde nuestro punto panorámico, veíamos kilómetros y kilómetros de sedimento...
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Harnessing Technology for Land Conservation
Reflections on the Evolving Role of Geographic Information Services and Technology in Advancing the Land for People Mission of The Trust for Public LandDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Will RogersBy developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...
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Green Infrastructure in Patagonia
Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation CommunityDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom KirscheyThis paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...
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Conservation Easements Outside of the United States
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2011For the past thirty years, nonprofits in the United States have been authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, which are perpetual restrictions that prevent alteration of the subject...
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