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Constructed ecologies : critical reflections on ecology with design /

By: Grose, Margaret [author.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2017Description: xvi, 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138890213; 9781138890213:; 1138890219; 9781138890220; 1138890227.Subject(s): Landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects | Landscape ecologyDDC classification: 712 | GRO
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The environment is not a human construct - Global differences, not universals -- Shifting adaptabilities, not static concepts -- Multiple, not solo voices -- Inquiries, not assumptions -- Thinking backwards, not forwards as a linear narrative -- Concluding comments -- Index.
Summary: 'Constructed Ecologies' is the first major book in landscape architecture to present ecology as theory for design and making. A new generation of designers are shifting landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science; but in many ways designers do not know enough science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The environment is not a human construct - Global differences, not universals -- Shifting adaptabilities, not static concepts -- Multiple, not solo voices -- Inquiries, not assumptions -- Thinking backwards, not forwards as a linear narrative -- Concluding comments -- Index.

'Constructed Ecologies' is the first major book in landscape architecture to present ecology as theory for design and making. A new generation of designers are shifting landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science; but in many ways designers do not know enough science.

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