Constructed Ecologies

Name: Constructed Ecologies
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138890220
Price: 132.0 NZD
Availability: InStock

Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design

By Margaret Grose

0.0 (0 reviews)

Summary

Constructed Ecologies explores the evolving practice of landscape architecture through the lens of ecological science. Margaret Grose challenges outdated theories and introduces innovative ideas on how designers can integrate complex ecological principles into their work. The book emphasises the importance of interdisciplinary approaches, reconsidering large-scale agriculture, urban health, and the impact of public night lighting, encouraging designers to move beyond traditional linear thinking.
Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

$132⁰⁰

AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 4-6 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Constructed Ecologies

$132⁰⁰

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This insightful work is ideal for landscape architects, designers, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of ecology and design. It appeals to readers seeking a critical and scientific perspective on contemporary landscape architecture and ecological theory.

Description

Today, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design, and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science.

In the questioning narrative of Constructed Ecologies, the author discards many old and tired theories in landscape architecture. With detailed documentation, she casts off the savannah theory, critiques the search for universals, reveals the needed role of designers in large-scale agriculture, abandons the overlay technique of McHarg, and introduces the ecological and urban health urgency of public night lighting.

Margaret Grose presents wide-ranging new approaches and shows the importance of learning from science for design, of going beyond assumptions, of working in multiple rather than single issues, of disrupting linear design thinking, and of dealing with data. This book is written with a clear voice by an ecologist and landscape architect who has led design students into loving ecological science for the support it gives design.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138890220

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 March 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, color; 10 Line drawings, color; 41 Halftones, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 446g

Pages: 192

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Margaret Grose Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Margaret Grose teaches landscape architecture in the Melbourne School of Design, within the University of Melbourne, Australia. Rarely for a trained landscape architect, she also has a long earlier history as an agricultural scientist and ecologist, working in Western Australia as well as in Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, where she did experimental and theoretical research in mathematical biology. She has published more than forty-five journal articles and book chapters across biological science and design, and is an Associate Editor of Oxford’s Journal of Urban Ecology.

Also by Margaret Grose

View all

Constructed Ecologies

By Margaret Grose

Hardback

$447⁰⁰

Available
Ships in 4-6 weeks