Land Lines July 2019

Features

Black and white full cover of the book Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg. The back cover shows the planet Earth from space with no type, and the front cover shows a large moon rising over a cityscape. The moon, like the Earth on the back cover, takes up almost all of the space on the cover.

Introduction

Design in the Anthropocene

By Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, and Frederick Steiner

Fifty 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 Design and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Design with Nature Now offers new thinking about how to...

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A clear, light blue sky fills the top half of the image and a green wetland, with grasses, algae, and lily pads, fills the bottom. A fenced, raised boardwalk made of wood is shown on the right side of the image, zig zagging toward the horizon..

Projects: Five Themes

From New York City to Jining, China, These Projects Exemplify the Principle of Designing with Nature

Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming

Design 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 Borderlands in Arizona and New Mexico; 2050—An Energetic Odyssey in the North Sea; Weishan Wetland Park in China;...

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