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Introduction
Design in the Anthropocene
By Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, and Frederick Steiner
July 2019, English
In 1969, Ian L. McHarg, professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, published a manifesto titled Design with Nature. Translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, and still in print to this day, it is arguably the most important book to come out of the design professions in the […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
July 2019, English
In 1969, Ian L. McHarg, professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, published a manifesto titled Design with Nature. Translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, and still in print to this day, it is arguably the most important book to come out of the design professions in the […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
Biography
“Why Do I Have to Be the Man to Bring You the Bad News?”
By William Whitaker
July 2019, English
The 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, Scotland, Ian McHarg (1920–2001) grew up on the shadowy fringes of the Industrial Revolution. His father, […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning
July 2019, English
The 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, Scotland, Ian McHarg (1920–2001) grew up on the shadowy fringes of the Industrial Revolution. His father, […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning
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
July 2019, English
The projects featured in this article are excerpted from Design with Nature Now. They were selected for the book because each in some way narrows the gap between theory and practice and opens up a wider horizon for the future of landscape architecture. Arriving at the full set of 25 projects for the book […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
July 2019, English
The projects featured in this article are excerpted from Design with Nature Now. They were selected for the book because each in some way narrows the gap between theory and practice and opens up a wider horizon for the future of landscape architecture. Arriving at the full set of 25 projects for the book […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
Remembrance
A Few Choruses Low Down, but Not So Blue for Ian
By Laurie Olin
July 2019, English
The 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 positive effect on my own life and career. I first heard of Ian McHarg when architecture classmates from Seattle stayed at my apartment […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
July 2019, English
The 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 positive effect on my own life and career. I first heard of Ian McHarg when architecture classmates from Seattle stayed at my apartment […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
Reflection
Traverse Before Transect
By Anuradha Mathur
July 2019, English
Ian 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 in Philadelphia; I was on a line drawn from the Appalachian Mountains across the Piedmont Plateau down to the […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
July 2019, English
Ian 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 in Philadelphia; I was on a line drawn from the Appalachian Mountains across the Piedmont Plateau down to the […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools
Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture
Negotiating Better Public Infrastructure
Erwin van der Krabben, Ary Samsura, and Jinshuo Wang
June 2019, English
Working Papers
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Public Finance, Value Capture
June 2019, English
Working Papers
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Public Finance, Value Capture
Planificación de escenarios
Aceptar la incertidumbre para tomar mejores decisiones
Robert Goodspeed
June 2019, Spanish
Policy Briefs
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools
June 2019, Spanish
Policy Briefs
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools
Property Tax
Fifty-State Study Details Growing Tax Breaks for Longtime Homeowners
By Will Jason
June 2019, English
In states with property tax assessment limits, tax breaks for longtime homeowners are growing at the expense of new homeowners, a new study shows.
Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
June 2019, English
In states with property tax assessment limits, tax breaks for longtime homeowners are growing at the expense of new homeowners, a new study shows.
Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
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