Contents
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors xiii
Introduction: The culture of nature in the history of design 1
Kjtil Fallan
PART 1
Conceptual environments 17
1 Design's ecological operating environments 19
Simon Sadler
2 Pattern watchers I: environmental seeing, c. 1970 31
Larry Busbea
3 Computing environmental design 44
Peder Anker
4 Ludie pedagogies at the College of Environmental Design,
UC Berkeley, 1966 to 1972 58
Timothy Stott
PART2 Ecotopian landscapes 73
5 A cityless and countryless world: the total appropriation
of nature in Victorian utopias 75
Nathaniel Robert vfillker
6 Clean and disciplined: the garden city in Singapore 89
Jesse O'Neill
7 Desertification, or designing new worlds in the dust 103
Fattori Fraser
8 'There's a world going on underground': ecotopian realism in subterranean design 116
Even Smith Wergeland
PART3 Design in the garden 129
9 Contested development: ICSID's design aid and environmental policy in the 1970s 131
Tania Messell
10 Power in the landscape: regenerating the Scottish Highlands after the Second World War 147
Frances Robertson
11 Design for the garden: questioning gardening as environmentalism 161
Jette Lykke Jensen
12 Permanence and magic: super-natural metaphors of stainless steel 175
Nicolas P Maffei
PART4 Design as ecology 187
13 Forms ef Human Environment (1970): Italian design responds
to the global crisis 189
Elena Formia
14 Environmental design pedagogy in Leningrad in the 1980s 206
Yulia Karpova
15 Throwaway houses: garbage housing and the politics of ownership 221
Curt Gambetta
16 The unmaking of Autoprogettazione Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti 237
Index 248