Land Lines July 2019

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

Introduction

Design in the Anthropocene

By Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, and Frederick Steiner, July 1, 2019

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 face our most urgent ecological challenges.

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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 1, 2019

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; Freshkills Park in New York; and the city streets of Medellín, Colombia.

This issue features excerpts from the book Design with Nature Now (October 2019), showcasing some of today’s most advanced ecological design projects, in honor of visionary landscape architect Ian McHarg. This collaboration by the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy demonstrates McHarg’s enduring influence as practitioners use his approach to confront climate change and other 21st-century challenges.

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