Cities and Natural Process

Book info: Cities and Natural Process (Paperback, 344 pages) – Routledge, 1995. Language: English.

Cities and Natural Process is a book for all concerned with the future of our cities, their design and sustainability, and our quality of life within them.Michael Hough describes how economic and technological values have squeezed any real sense of nature out of the modern city, the ways in which this has led toa divisive separation of countryside and city, has wasted much of the city's resources, and has shaped an urban aesthetic which is sharply at odds with both natural and social processes. Against this is set an alternative history of ecological values informing proven approaches to urban design which work with^n nature in the city. Editorial Reviews Review

"In many ways the profession is just catching up with Hough's thinking." - Joan Nassauer, University of Michigan

About the Author Michael Hough is a professional landscape architect and is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada.