Fifty years have passed since the publication of influential landscape architect Ian McHarg?s book, Design With Nature in 1969. Throughout the United States, an environmental movement was taking place, into the center of which McHarg?s book was thrust. The 1970s and ?80s were a time of much landmark legislation surrounding ecological concerns, and McHarg argued that landscape architecture alone was able to integrate all the disparate fields involved.

McHarg promoting his book in 1969. Image Courtesy of the Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania
Fifty years have passed since the publication of influential landscape architect Ian McHarg?s book, Design With Nature in 1969. Throughout the United States, an environmental movement was taking place, into the center of which McHarg?s book was thrust. The 1970s and ?80s were a time of much landmark legislation surrounding ecological concerns, and McHarg argued that landscape architecture alone was able to integrate all the disparate fields involved.
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