![]() After working with the Royal Engineers during World War II, he travelled to America. ![]() It was not until after his term in the Parachute Regiment, serving in war-stricken Italy during World War II, however, that he was able to explore the field of urban landscape architecture. His early experiences with the bifurcated landscapes of Scotland-the smoky industrial urbanism of Glasgow and the sublimity of the surrounding environs-had a profound influence on his later thinking. McHarg showed an early talent for drawing and was advised to consider a career in landscape architecture. His father was a manager and later a salesman in the industrial city of Glasgow, Scotland. In this book, he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems.īiography Formative years It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning. His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. ![]()
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