"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Designing Wildlife Habitats,' held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 14-15, 2010"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : cultivating wildlife / John Beardsley -- Pt. I. Frameworks. Edging into the wild / Harriet Ritvo ; Wildness and wilderness in Ottoman gardens and landscape : manifestations of nature through body, architecture, and city / B. Deniz Çaliş ; Spatial scale and the design of conservation interventions / Joshua R. Ginsberg ; Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the design of landscapes / Shahid Naeem ; "That's real meat" : birds, native people, and conservation in the neotropics / Shepard Krech III -- Pt. II. Sites, scales, systems. Designing a wilderness for wildlife : the case of the Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa / Jane Carruthers ; Wildlife habitat design for biodiversity conservation and conservation education : two case studies : Alice Springs Desert park and the Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary / Stuart Green ; Orongo Station Master Plan (photo essay) / Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects ; Ecological restoration foundations to designing habitats in urban areas / Steven N. Handel ; Biodiversity and climate change in cities / Kristina Hill ; ARC wildlife crossing competition : "hypar-nature" (photo essay) / HNTB Engineering and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates ; The role of designers in creating wildlife habitat in the built environment / Alexander J. Felson ; Integration across scales : landscape as infrastructure for the protection of biodiversity / Kongjian Yu.
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; 34
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