People in a Landscape considers how politics, government, etc. relate to Mother Nature.

Features:

• Explains how the processes and products of that interaction are gradually destroying her
• Offers suggestions for gaining deeper insights into the problem, and for developing more creative, effective and ecological management solutions
• Explains that past and present traditions and policies have resulted in overpopulation and environmental overuse and abuse

Contents

1. The World According to Garrett Eckbo.
2. Futurology
3. How We See the World: Ecology, Society, and Design
4. Social Landscape Poetics
5. State of the World
6. Contextualism
7. Density
8. Accumulation
9. Ecological Boundaries, Borders, and Visual Scales
10. The American Way
11. Democracy
12. Urban Culture
13. Social and Environmental Activism
14. Nature plus Society Equals Environment
15. Culture and Nature
16. The Power Pyramid of Design
17. Players in Planning and Design
18. Urban Design — Urban or Urbane
19. Professional Designers versus Political Activists
20. Nationalism and Ecological Reconstruction
21. Regional Planning
22. State and Open Space Planning in California
23. Regional Spatial Design
24. Design Process
25. Spatial Composition from a Greater Vocabulary
26. Science and Art
27. Comparison of Architecture Theory to Landscape Theory
28. Planning: Putting Away the Dart Boards
29. Developing Cities and New Towns
30. Land and People
31. A Plan, A Plan, A Plan
32. Landscape as Objet d'Art
33. Construction; Parasite on Nature
34. A Crisis Is Brewing; What to Do
35. New Attitudes: Experiencing the Environment
36. The Good Designer
37. Calls for Action
38. The New Age of Landscapes
39. Design and Nature
40. The Design Professional in Ecological World Reconstruction
41. The Academy of Ecological-Environmental Design and Planning
42. The CEQ and CSA
43. Overpopulation, Overurbanization, Overindustrialization, and Visions
44. Integration of Technology and Nature
45. How Does the World Work
46. Building a Brave New World
47. Brave New World for Whom
48. Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
49. Survey of Literature

Index

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