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Imprint:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1998.
Description:x, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3048624
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Other authors / contributors:Eckbo, Garrett.
ISBN:0133866408
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-270) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The World According to Garrett Eckbo
  • 2. Futurology
  • 3. How We See the World: Ecology, Society, and Design
  • 4. Social Landscape Poetics
  • 5. State of the World
  • 6. Contextualism
  • 7. Density
  • 8. Accumulation
  • 9. Ecological Boundaries, Borders, and Visual Scales
  • 10. The American Way
  • 11. Democracy
  • 12. Urban Culture
  • 13. Social and Environmental Activism
  • 14. Nature plus Society Equals Environment
  • 15. Culture and Nature
  • 16. The Power Pyramid of Design
  • 17. Players in Planning and Design
  • 18. Urban Design Urban or Urbane?
  • 19. Professional Designers versus Political Activists
  • 20. Nationalism and Ecological Reconstruction
  • 21. Regional Planning
  • 22. State and Open Space Planning in California
  • 23. Regional Spatial Design
  • 24. Design Process
  • 25. Spatial Composition from a Greater Vocabulary
  • 26. Science and Art
  • 27. Comparison of Architecture Theory to Landscape Theory
  • 28. Planning: Putting Away the Dart Boards
  • 29. Developing Cities and New Towns
  • 30. Land and People
  • 31. A Plan, A Plan, A Plan
  • 32. Landscape as Objet d'Art
  • 33. Construction; Parasite on Nature
  • 34. A Crisis Is Brewing; What to Do!
  • 35. New Attitudes: Experiencing the Environment
  • 36. The Good Designer
  • 37. Calls for Action
  • 38. The New Age of Landscapes
  • 39. Design and Nature
  • 40. The Design Professional in Ecological World Reconstruction
  • 41. The Academy of Ecological-Environmental Design and Planning
  • 42. The CEQ and CSA
  • 43. Overpopulation, Overurbanization, Overindustrialization, and Visions
  • 44. Integration of Technology and Nature
  • 45. How Does the World Work?
  • 46. Building a Brave New World
  • 47. Brave New World for Whom?
  • 48. Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
  • 49. Survey of Literature
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index