Environmental Readings 2021 & 2022

A publication of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology, this book collects essays by graduate students in the the Environmental Readings seminar led by Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Frederick Steiner in Academic Years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Steiner writes in the foreword: These “environmental readers” write about crime prevention, landscape urbanism, environmental racism, restorative urbanism, and the science of cities; as well as designers, scientists, and environmentalists including Larry Halprin, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Kongjian Yu, Buckminster Fuller, Denby Deegan (a Sioux architect), Jens Jensen, and Richard St. Barbe Baker; plus their own theories about landscape story telling, civility and disobedience, illumination, and suburbia. Although the seminar includes “reading” in its title, it is as much about “writing.” [Learn more at https://mcharg.upenn.edu.]