To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings 1559635738, 9781559635738

Table of contents :
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Forward......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I. Changing the Nature of Design and Planning: Theoretical Writings......Page 20
Ch. 1: Man and Environment......Page 25
Ch. 2: The Place of Nature in the City of Man......Page 39
Ch. 3: Ecological Determinism......Page 54
Ch. 4: Values, Process and Form......Page 72
Ch. 5: Natural Factors in Planning......Page 87
Part II. Planning the Ecological Region......Page 100
Ch. 6: Regional Landscape Planning......Page 109
Ch. 7: Open Space from Natural Processes......Page 123
Ch. 8: Must We Sacrifice the West?......Page 147
Ch. 9: Ecological Planning: The Planner as Catalyst......Page 154
Ch. 10: Human Ecological Planning at Pennsylvania......Page 157
Part III. Form and Function are Indivisible......Page 172
Ch. 11: The Court House Concept......Page 178
Ch. 12: Architecture in an Ecological View of the World......Page 190
Ch. 13: Nature Is More Than a Garden......Page 201
Ch. 14: Landscape Architecture......Page 203
Ch. 15: Ecology and Design......Page 209
Part IV. Revealing the Genius of the Place: Methods and Techniques for Ecological Planning......Page 218
Ch. 16: An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture......Page 227
Ch. 17: A Comprehensive Highway Route Selection Method......Page 234
Ch. 18: Biological Alternatives to Water Pollution......Page 249
Ch. 19: A Case Study in Ecological Planning: The Woodlands, Texas......Page 257
Part V. Linking Knowledge to Action......Page 280
Ch. 20: Plan for the Valleys vs. Spectre of Uncontrolled Growth......Page 286
Ch. 21: An Ecological Planning Study for Wilmington and Dover, Vermont......Page 293
Ch. 22: Ecological Plumbing for the Texas Coastal Plain......Page 340
Ch. 23: A Strategy for a National Ecological Inventory......Page 356
Prospectus......Page 372
Acknowledgment of Sources......Page 376
Index......Page 378