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Metropolitan Open Space and Natural Process (Hardcover)
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Metropolitan Open Space and Natural Process (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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Open space in urban regions is fast disappearing, but it can still
be saved by coordinating man's design with the processes of nature.
The authors demonstrate here methods that permit better and more
profitable economic and industrial development, while raising the
quality of life and saving the environment. The problem is all
around us, David Wallace observes: "As metropolitan areas grow and
Megalopolis takes shape before our eyes, nearby open space where
nature predominates seems doomed. Forces apparently beyond our
control eliminate all traces of an untouched countryside, and
replace it with thousands and thousands and thousands of houses.
The pattern of ultimate suburban development finally removes the
last vestiges of woods, streams, thickets, and wildlife with the
filling of vacant lots carelessly left over from the first great
surge of growth. The individual houses that result art perhaps
pleasant enough in the micro-scale. But unrelievedly continuous
urbanization-even in the case where the individual parts are
attractive-appalls, bores, and numbs the senses. . . . Must it be
this way?" This study, based on research at the Institute of
Environmental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests
how the process of indiscriminate exploitation of open space can be
reversed through understanding and application of natural processes
in the environment. When these natural processes are understood,
planners can discriminate among land that should be retained as
open space in a natural state, land that can stand limited
development, and land that can be fully developed without
significantly affecting natural processes. Contributors: William G.
Grigsby, Ian McHarg, William H. Roberts, Ann Louise Strong, Nohad
A. Toulan, and David A. Wallace.
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