The Ecological Design and Planning Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Introduction to Part One....Pages 13-19
Higher Laws....Pages 20-24
Introduction (excerpts)....Pages 25-32
New Introduction by David Lowenthal (2003)....Pages 33-50
The Town-Country Magnet....Pages 51-57
The study of Cities....Pages 58-65
Regional Planning and Ecology....Pages 66-71
Ecological Planning: Retrospect and Prospect....Pages 72-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Introduction to Part Two....Pages 93-96
Man and the Environment....Pages 97-107
The Land Ethic....Pages 108-121
The Obligation to Endure....Pages 122-130
Ethical duties to the Environment....Pages 131-148
Whither Conservation Ethics?....Pages 149-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Introduction to Part Three....Pages 163-168
Systems, Signs, Sensibilities: Sources for a New Landscape Aesthetic....Pages 169-180
Open space from Natural Processes....Pages 181-190
An Introduction to Ecological Design....Pages 191-202
The strategy of Ecosystem development....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Foundations....Pages 217-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Introduction to Part Four....Pages 237-242
The First Landscape-suitability Approach....Pages 243-265
Introduction....Pages 266-278
Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the use of the Land....Pages 279-298
Basic Principles for Molding Land Mosaics....Pages 299-319
Introduction....Pages 320-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Introduction to Part Five....Pages 335-340
An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture....Pages 341-347
Methods for Generating Land suitability Maps: A Comparative Evaluation....Pages 348-367
The Art of site Planning....Pages 368-378
Processes....Pages 379-389
On teaching Ecological Principles to designers....Pages 390-395
Framing the Land use Plan: A Systems Approach....Pages 396-403
A synthesis of Approaches to Ecological Planning....Pages 404-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Introduction to Part six....Pages 429-435
A Case study in Ecological Planning: The Woodlands, Texas....Pages 436-450
Project Discussion: Aguas Claras, Belo Horizonte, Brazil....Pages 451-455
Foreword....Pages 456-460
The Upper San Pedro River Basin....Pages 461-465
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Reinvent the Good Earth: National Ecological Security Pattern Plan, China....Pages 466-469
From Regional Planning to Site Design—The Application of the “Shan-shui City” Concept in Multi-scale Landscape Planning of New Cities in China....Pages 470-482
Site: Building through Ecological Planning....Pages 483-490
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Introduction to Part Seven....Pages 493-500
Ecological Footprints for Beginners....Pages 501-505
The Region....Pages 506-514
Smart Growth: Why We Discuss It More than We Do It....Pages 515-532
Landscape Ecological Urbanism: Origins and Trajectories....Pages 533-540
Ecological Resilience as a Foundation for Urban Design and Sustainability....Pages 541-556
Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities (2014)....Pages 557-571
Back Matter....Pages 572-625