Constructed ecologies : critical reflections on ecology with design / Margaret Grose.

Main entry:

Grose, Margaret, author.

Title & Author:

Constructed ecologies : critical reflections on ecology with design / Margaret Grose.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Description:

xvi, 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A background to design. The environment is not a human construct -- Global differences, not universals -- Shifting adaptabilities, not static concepts -- Thinking about design. Multiple, not solo voices -- Inquiries, not assumptions -- Thinking backwards, not forwards as a linear narrative -- Concluding comments.

Summary:

"Today, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design, and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science. In the questioning narrative of Constructed Ecologies, the author discards many old and tired theories in landscape architecture. With detailed documentation, she casts off the savannah theory, critiques the search for universals, reveals the needed role of designers in large-scale agriculture, abandons the overlay technique of McHarg, and introduces the ecological and urban health urgency of public night lighting. Margaret Grose presents wide-ranging new approaches and shows the importance of learning from science for design, of going beyond assumptions, of working in multiple rather than single issues, of disrupting linear design thinking, and of dealing with data. This book is written with a clear voice by an ecologist and landscape architect who has led design students into loving ecological science for the support it gives design."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781138890213 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1138890219 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781138890220 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1138890227 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315712543
9781317495253 (ePub ebook)
9781317495260 (PDF ebook)
9781317495246 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Landscape architecture Environmental aspects.
Landscape ecology.
Architecture du paysage Aspect de l'environnement.
Écologie du paysage.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295057
Call No.: BIB 240960
Status: Available

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