Research Catalog

Title

Ecology and design : frameworks for learning / edited by Bart R. Johnson and Kristina Hill.

Publication

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Johnson, J. Bart.

Description

xxiii, 530 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Ecological landscape design

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / David W. Orr -- Preface / Robert Z. Melnick. Ch. 1. Introduction: Toward Landscape Realism / Bart R. Johnson and Kristina Hill -- Pt. I. Theories of Nature in Ecology and Design. Ch. 2. The Authority of Nature: Conflict, Confussion, and Renewal in Design, Planning, and Ecology / Anne Whiston Spirn. Ch. 3. Ecology's New Paradigm: What Does It Offer Designers and Planners? / H. Ronald Pulliam and Bart R. Johnson. Ch. 4. The Missing Catalyst: Design and Planning with Ecology Roots / Richard T. T. Forman -- Pt. II. Perspectives on Theory and Practice. Ch. 5. Lead or Fade into Obscurity: Can Landscape Educators Ask and Answer Useful Questions about Ecology? / Carolyn A. Adams. Ch. 6. What from Ecology Is Relevant to Design and Planning? / James R. Karr. Ch. 7. Toward an Inclusive Concept of Infrastructure / William E. Wenk. Ch. 8. Human Health and Design: An Essay in Two Parts. 1. Exquisite Communion: The Body, Landscape, and Toxic Exposures / Sandra Steingraber.
• 2. Design and Planning as Healing Arts: The Broader Context of Health and Environment / Kristina Hill -- Pt. III. Education for Practice. Ch. 9. Ecological Science and Landscape Design: A Necessary Relationship in Changing Landscapes / Joan Iverson Nassauer. Ch. 10. On Teaching Ecological Principles to Designers / Carl Steinitz. Ch. 11. Looking Beneath the Surface: Teaching a Landscape Ethic / Michael Hough -- Pt. IV. Prescriptions for Change. Ch. 12. In Expectation of Relationships: Centering Theories around Ecological Understanding / Kristina Hill, Denis White and Miranda Maupin / [et al.]. Ch. 13. The Nature of Dialogue and the Dialogue of Nature: Designers and Ecologists in Collaboration / Bart R. Johnson, Janet Silbernagel and Mark Hostetler / [et al.]. Ch. 14. Interweaving Ecology in Design and Planning Curricula / Ken Tamminga, Louise Mozingo and Donna Erickson / [et al.].
• Ch. 15. Integrating Ecology "across" the Curriculum of Landscape Architecture / Jack Ahern, Robert France and Michael Hough / [et al.]. Ch. 16. Building Ecological Understandings in Design Studio: A Repertoire for a Well-Crafted Learning Experience / Kathy Poole, Susan Galatowitsch and Robert Grese / [et al.]. Ch. 17. From Theory to Practice: Educational Outcomes in the World of Professional Practice / Rene Senos, Carolyn A. Adams and Dean Apostol / [et al.]. Ch. 18. Conclusions: Frameworks for Learning / Kristina Hill and Bart R. Johnson.

ISBN

1559638133 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001006880

OCLC

• ocm48398994
• SCSB-4232000

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries