Wild by design : strategies for creating life-enhancing landscapes / Margie Ruddick.
Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:- text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9781610915991
- 1610915992
- Strategies for creating life-enhancing landscapes
- Landscape design
- Urban landscape architecture
- Sustainable urban development
- Sustainable design
- City planning -- Environmental aspects
- Public spaces -- Psychological aspects
- Aménagement paysager
- Paysage urbain
- Urbanisme durable
- Écoconception
- Espaces publics -- Aspect psychologique
- urban landscapes
- sustainable architecture
- Regional & area planning
- Landscape art & architecture
- City & town planning -- architectural aspects
- Human-computer interaction
- Sustainability
- ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape
- GARDENING -- Garden Design
- GARDENING -- Landscape
- City planning -- Environmental aspects
- Landscape design
- Public spaces -- Psychological aspects
- Sustainable design
- Sustainable urban development
- Urban landscape architecture
- Landscape Architecture (General)
- Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
- 712.5 23
- SB472.45 .R83 2016eb
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A laboratory for wild by design -- Reinvention -- Restoration -- Conservation -- Regeneration -- Expression -- Conclusion : what are we doing here, anyway?
"Can nature--in all its unruly wildness--be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the entrenched belief that natural processes cannot complement high-level landscape design. Wild by Design defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, beauty, and meaning to landscapes: Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration, and Expression. Drawing on her own projects--from New York City's Queens Plaza, formerly a concrete jungle of traffic, to a desertscape backyard in Baja, California, to the Living Water Park in Chengdu, China--she offers guidance on creating beautiful, healthy landscapes that successfully reconnect people with larger natural systems. A revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners, Wild by Design stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of broader, more flexible strategies and practical examples that allow for the unexpected exuberance of nature to be a welcome part of our gardens, parks, backyards, and cities"--Provided by publisher.
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