Contents
Foreword: Promise to Progress in the Ecological Medium by Jesse M. Keenan 6
Foreword: Ecologies, Plural and Projective by Charles Waldheim 12
Introduction: Ecological Thinking, Design Practices Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister 18
Foundations, evolutions
Parallel Genealogies by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister 26
Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity (reprint, 1997) by
James Corner 44
Dynamics (curated drawings + commentary) 70
Emergent ideas, ecological thinking
Designing Ecologies by Christopher Hight 88
Ecology and Planning (reprint, 1971) by C.S. Holling and M.A. Goldberg 110
Selections from Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning (reprint, 1996) by Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, and Richard T.T. Forman 130
Succession (curated drawings+ commentary) 138
Anthro-ecologies, hybridity
Selections from Discordant Harmonies (reprint,1990) by Daniel Botkin 156
(Anthropogenic Tuxonomies) A Taxonomy of" the Human Biosphere by
Erle C. Ellis 172
Cultural Landscapes and Dynamic Ecologies: Lessons from New Orleans by Jane Wolff 188
Emergence (curated drawings + commentary) 208
Ecology, cities, and design
Do Landscapes Learn? Ecology's New Paradigm and Design in Landscape Architecture (reprint, 1999) by Robert E. Cook 222
The Flora of the future by Peter Del Tredici 242
Flood Control Freakology : Los Angeles river Watershed (Reprint,2008)
By David Fletcher 262
Resilience (curated drawings+ commentary) 280
Paths forward
Design Thinking, Wicked Problems, Messy Plans by Frances Westley and Katharine McGowan 294
The Shape of Energy by Sean Lally 316
Combustible Landscape by Sanford Kwinter 340
Adaptability (curated drawings + commentary) 358
Contributors 374
Illustration Credits 378