Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology as a standard part of their courses and curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers models from successful programs. The book: examines the need for change in the education and practice of landscape architecture and in the physical planning and design professions as a whole asks what designers and physical planners need to know about ecology and what applied ecologists can learn from design and planning develops conceptual frameworks needed to realize an ecologically based approach to design and planning offers recommendations for the integration of ecology within a landscape architecture curriculum, as an example for other design fields such as civil engineering and architecture considers the implications for professional practice explores innovative approaches to collaboration among designers and ecologistsIn addition to the editors, contributors include Carolyn Adams, Jack Ahern, Richard T. T. Forman, Michael Hough, James Karr, Joan Iverson Nassauer, David Orr, Kathy Poole, H. Ronald Pulliam, Anne Whiston Spirn, Sandra Steingraber, Carl Steinitz, Ken Tamminga, and William Wenk. Ecology and Design represents an important guidepost and source of ideas for faculty, students, and professionals in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and architecture, landscape ecology, conservation biology and restoration ecology, civil and environmental engineering, and related fields.
Foreword Orr David W.
Preface Melnick Robert Z.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward Landscape Realism Johnson Bart R.
Hill Kristina
THEORIES OF NATURE IN ECOLOGY AND DESIGN
The Authority of Nature: Conflict, Confusion, and Renewal in Design, Planning, and Ecology Spirn Anne Whiston
Ecology's New Paradigm: What Does It Offer Designers and Planners? Pulliam H. Ronald
Johnson Bart R.
The Missing Catalyst: Design and Planning with Ecology Roots Forman Richard T. T.
PERSPECTIVES ON THEORY AND PRACTICE
Lead or Fade into Obscurity: Can Landscape Educators Ask and Answer Useful Questions about Ecology? Adams Carolyn A.
What from Ecology Is Relevant to Design and Planning? Karr James R.
Toward an Inclusive Concept of Infrastructure Wenk William E.
Human Health and Design: An Essay in Two Parts
Exquisite Communion: The Body, Landscape, and Toxic Exposures Steingraber Sandra
Design and Planning as Healing Arts: The Broader Context of Health and Environment Hill Kristina
EDUCATION FOR PRACTICE
Ecological Science and Landscape Design: A Necessary Relationship in Changing Landscapes Nassauer Joan Iverson
On Teaching Ecological Principles to Designers Steinitz Carl
Looking Beneath the Surface: Teaching a Landscape Ethic Hough Michael
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CHANGE
In Expectation of Relationships: Centering Theories around Ecological Understanding Hill Krishna
White Denis
Maupin Miranda
Ryder Barbara
Karr James R.
Freemark Kathryn
Taylor Rebecca
Schauman Sally
The Nature of Dialogue and the Dialogue of Nature: Designers and Ecologists in Collaboration Johnson Bart R.
Silbernagel Janet
Hostetler Mark
Mills April
Ndubisi Forster
Fife Edward
Hunter MaryCarol Rossiter
Interweaving Ecology in Design and Planning Curricula Tamminga Ken
Mozingo Louise
Erickson Donna
Harrington John
Integrating Ecology “across” the Curriculum of Landscape Architecture Abern Jack
France Robert
Hough Michael
Burley Jon
Turner Wood
Schmidt Stephan
Hulse David
Badenhope Julia
Jones Grant
Building Ecological Understandings in Design Studio: A Repertoire for a Well-Crafted Learning Experience Poole Kathy
Galatowitsch Susan
Grese Robert
Johnston Douglas
Keller J. Timothy
Richey David
Skabelund Lee R.
Steinitz Carl
Woodward Joan
From Theory to Practice: Educational Outcomes in the World of Professional Practice Senos René
Adams Carolyn A.
Apostol Dean
Hess Jurgen
Conclusions: Frameworks for Learning Hill Kristina
