1. Urban Ecology: A Basis for Shaping Cities 2. Water 3. Plants 4. Wildlife 5. City Farming 6. Climate: Making Connections
Michael Hough is a landscape architect and senior partner in the Toronto firm of Hough, Stanbar, Nayor and Dance. He is also Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada.
'This is a book of ideas and imagination which should stimulate
anyone concerned about the future of urban life ... excellent
material to stimulate tutorial discussion.' - Times Higher
Education Supplement
'A classic in our own time ... its message is sorely needed; its
painstaking and authoritative guidance will be of inestimable
value.' - Landscape Architecture
' ... a concise, comprehensive and readable volume ... that applies
not only to landscape architecture but to all professionals
involved in city planning and conservation ... an excellent
textbook.' - Landscape Architecture
'A landmark in the environmental literature ... for the first time
an author has attempted in one concise, comprehensive volume, to
treat as an ecosystem a major part of the modern landscape which
has generally been regarded as outside the range of natural
process: the city.' - Land Use Policy
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