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001 2007050743
003 DLC
005 20100816091758.0
008 071211s2008 mnua b s000 0 eng
010 $a 2007050743
020 $a9780816653584 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a0816653585 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a9780816653591 (pb : alk. paper)
020 $a0816653593 (pb : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn183928634
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050 00 $aSB472.45$b.N38 2008
245 00 $aNature, landscape, and building for sustainability :$ba Harvard design magazine reader /$cWilliam S. Saunders, editor ; introduction by Robert L. Thayer, Jr.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$cc2008.
300 $axv, 201 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aHarvard design magazine readers ;$v6
500 $a"The essays in this book previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aThe destitution of space : from cosmic order to cyber disorientation / Albert Borgmann -- Humans supplant God, everything changes / Bill McKibben -- Too much : the Grand Canyon(s) / Lucy R. Lippard -- What do we make of nature now? / Catherine Howett -- Kiss nature goodbye : marketing the great outdoors / John Beardsley -- Beyond wilderness and lawn / Michael Pollan -- Nature used and abused : politics and rhetoric in American preservation and conservation / Rossana Vaccarino -- Five reasons to adopt environmental design / Susannah Hagan -- Invitation to the dance : sustainability and the expanded realm of design / Peter Buchanan -- Green world, gray heart? The promise and reality of landscape architecture in sustaining nature / Robert France -- Green good, better, and best : effective ecological design in cities / Kristina Hill -- Energy, body, building : rethinking sustainable design solutions / Michelle Addington -- Here come the hyperaccumulators! Cleaning toxic sites from the roots up / Niall Kirkwood -- Neocreationism and the illusion of ecological restoration / Peter Del Tredici -- A word for landscape architecture / John Beardsley.
520 $aThe complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision - sustainability - to guide their practices.
650 0 $aEcological landscape design.
700 1 $aSaunders, William S.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007050743.html