Wild By Design Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes /

• Main Author: Ruddick, Margie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Architecture.; Landscape architecture.; Graphic design.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Landscape Architecture.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Interaction Design.

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. Inst...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Reinvention
• 2. Restoration
• 3. Conservation
• 4. Regeneration
• 5. Expression
• Conclusion.