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Mcharg, who founded the landscape architecture department at the university of pennsylvania, heavily promoted the book, even appearing on television programs such as the mike douglas show. In 1969, his theories were published in his seminal book design with nature, which helped redefine the design of new communities and regional planning all over the country, and influenced u. He left military service after the war as a confident major in command of one of britains most elite combat units. Mcharg, a landscape architect, planner and teacher whose passion for meshing communities and ecology inspired scores of successors, died. Design with nature wiley series in sustainable design. The first book to describe an ecologically sound approach to the planning and design of communities, design with nature has done much over the past 25 years to. The publication of ian mchargs design with nature in 1969 signaled the highwater mark of the ecological movement in the united states. Ian mcharg built bridges between nature and culture, planning and design, science and policy, and inspired a network of professions in the ecological use of land. Before the war, he was a child of the great depression in industrial glasgow, scotland. Mcharg was the founder of and is professor emeritus in the department of landscape architecture and regional planning at the university of pennsylvania. Ian mcharg, 80, architect who valued a sites natural. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 color photos and line drawings.
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