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Ecology and design : frameworks for learning

This work explains why design professors should teach ecology as a standard part of their courses and provides examples from professors who already teach ecology and design in this way
Print Book, English, ©2002
Island Press, Washington, DC, ©2002
xxiii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781559638135, 1559638133
48398994
Introduction : Toward landscape realism / Bart R. Johnson and Kristina Hill
The authority of nature : conflict, confusion, and renewal in design, planning, and ecology / Anne Whiston Spirn
Ecology's new paradigm : what does it offer designers and planners? / H. Ronald Pulliam and Bart R. Johnson
The missing catalyst : design and planning with ecology roots / Richard T.T. Forman
Lead or fade into obscurity : can landscape educators ask and answer useful questions about ecology? / Carolyn A. Adams
What from ecology is relevant to design and planning? / James R. Karr
Toward an inclusive concept of infrastructure / William E. Wenk
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
Ecological science and landscape design : a necessary relationship in changing landscapes / Joan Iverson Nassauer
On teaching ecological principles to designers / Carl Steinitz
Looking beneath the surface : teaching a landscape ethic / Michael Hough
In expectation of relationships : centering theories around ecological understanding / Kristina Hill [and others]
The nature of dialogue and the dialogue of nature : designers and ecologists in collaboration / Bart R. Johnson [and others]
Interweaving ecology in design and planning curricula / Ken Tamminga [and others]
Integrating ecology "across" the curriculum of landscape architecture / Jack Ahern [and others]
Building ecological understandings in design studio : a repertoire for a well-crafted learning experience / Kathy Poole [and others]
From theory to practice : educational outcomes in the world of professional practice / René Senos [and others]
Conclusions : Frameworks for learning / Kristina Hill and Bart R. Johnson