Ian McHarg

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Ian McHarg

Engineering

#202

World Rank

#385

Historical Rank

Architecture

#74

World Rank

#192

Historical Rank

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Why Is Ian McHarg Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Ian L. McHarg was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning. It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning. In this book, he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Ian McHarg?

Ian McHarg is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Pennsylvania
• Harvard University