Looking for texts that discuss western attitudes towards nature and the environment, particularly, how attitudes changed with industrialization. Has anyone come across anything like this. I have many references that imply that the change ocurred but having trouble finding direct information. Any push in the right direction would be helpful. thanks -
Thank you both.
Treekiller - you have an MLA from Upenn is that correct? How much, if at all, is McHarg's pedagogy lingering around the department? My take from 'Recovering Landscape' is that 'Design with Nature' might be a bad word around there...is that accurate?
Corner has been attempting to exorcise McHargs ghost for a while and bring in an ali rahim level of chaos and complexity... that said, Ian's presence is strongly felt in the curriculem. The GIS course are directly indebted to him, there are lots of site reclaimantion/restoration seminars that have his spirit, and the attitude towards ecology reflects his holistic thinking. Many of the adjunct profs are from McHargs era- especially Laurie Olin (he's worth a seperate post), though the most vocal mchargians (Laurie Saur, Colin/Carol Franklin) are rarely seen in the halls of meyerson.
The current curriculem is a reaction to the mcharg fetish of site analysis and brings the poetry of design back into the equation. Ann Spirn started this movement beyond Ian, so check out her teachings at MIT. Jim Corner has gone even further towards design so that you might not even experience site analysis as an end to it's self.
If you want a mcharg experience, there are other schools that are still following his orthodoxy (Ole Miss is one). Penn builds on his legacy and moves one.
recovering landscape dates from when Jim was trying the hardest to break with the mcharg legacy and reinvent a rather moribund program. his line has softened since then.
'Design with Nature' is one of the choices for a book report for John Dixon Hunt/Laurie Olin's theory course.
Western Man, attitudes towards nature, Industrialization
Looking for texts that discuss western attitudes towards nature and the environment, particularly, how attitudes changed with industrialization. Has anyone come across anything like this. I have many references that imply that the change ocurred but having trouble finding direct information. Any push in the right direction would be helpful. thanks -
The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology by Max Oelschlaeger (thick tome, tons of footnotes=quality resources)
Any book by William Cronon...
also Ian McHarg and Malcolm Wells always have good rants about disenfranchised humanity... (so does aldo leopold)
Thank you both.
Treekiller - you have an MLA from Upenn is that correct? How much, if at all, is McHarg's pedagogy lingering around the department? My take from 'Recovering Landscape' is that 'Design with Nature' might be a bad word around there...is that accurate?
yes, yes I do...
Corner has been attempting to exorcise McHargs ghost for a while and bring in an ali rahim level of chaos and complexity... that said, Ian's presence is strongly felt in the curriculem. The GIS course are directly indebted to him, there are lots of site reclaimantion/restoration seminars that have his spirit, and the attitude towards ecology reflects his holistic thinking. Many of the adjunct profs are from McHargs era- especially Laurie Olin (he's worth a seperate post), though the most vocal mchargians (Laurie Saur, Colin/Carol Franklin) are rarely seen in the halls of meyerson.
The current curriculem is a reaction to the mcharg fetish of site analysis and brings the poetry of design back into the equation. Ann Spirn started this movement beyond Ian, so check out her teachings at MIT. Jim Corner has gone even further towards design so that you might not even experience site analysis as an end to it's self.
If you want a mcharg experience, there are other schools that are still following his orthodoxy (Ole Miss is one). Penn builds on his legacy and moves one.
recovering landscape dates from when Jim was trying the hardest to break with the mcharg legacy and reinvent a rather moribund program. his line has softened since then.
'Design with Nature' is one of the choices for a book report for John Dixon Hunt/Laurie Olin's theory course.
Yikes Tree Killer didn't know you carried such a punch! Saw Ian years ago....actually back in the 70's and he was smoking!
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