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Wild By Design:

Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
  • ISBN-13: 9781610915984
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Margie Ruddick
  • Price: AUD $117.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2016
  • Format: Paperback 261 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]
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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. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the entrenched belief that natural processes cannot complement high-level landscape design.
 
Wild by Design defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, beauty, and meaning to landscapes: Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration, and Expression. Drawing on her own projects'from New York City's Queens Plaza, formerly a concrete jungle of traffic, to a desertscape backyard in Baja, California, to the Living Water Park in Chengdu, China'she offers guidance on creating beautiful, healthy landscapes that successfully reconnect people with larger natural systems.

 
A revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners, Wild by Design stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of broader, more flexible strategies and practical examples that allow for the unexpected exuberance of nature to be a welcome part of our gardens, parks, backyards, and cities.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Reinvention
Chapter 2. Restoration
Chapter 3. Conservation
Chapter 4. Regeneration
Chapter 5. Expression
Conclusion
"Great images, good story. This is a book every architect should read."
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