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Ian McHarg (1920-2001) was a landscape gardener & a founder of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. When working by having a Royal Engineers during World War II he was admitted to the architecture school at Harvard where he completed degrees in landscape architecture & town planning. He published Design with Nature in 1969 and it continues to exist as one of a virtually all celebrated books in landscape architecture. In that book he placed forth occasionally of a conception that would form the field of Geographic Information Systems.
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Design with Nature Is Still Important A summary of the 1969 Ian McHarg book. CSISS Classics: Ian McHarg Biographical information and a list of publications. Ian McHarg Reflects on the Past, Present and Future of GIS An interview with the acclaimed author about the impacts of Geographic Information System software on the field. Ian L. McHarg Obituary from the Pennsylvania Gazette. Pennsylvania Current: Q & A: Ian McHarg Brief interview and biography. |
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