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This [reading] presents the framework within which I have organized the teaching of ecological principles to designers, and which I have used for many years to integrate lectures, studios, and research. For more than thirty years, I have been teaching in the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. During this time, I have visited almost all of the landscape programs in North America and Europe, and many in the rest of the world. I certainly comprehend the great variety of institutional settings from which the subject of this book is derived and in which its findings will have influence. I am sure that there is no single and appropriate set of conclusions, and I am absolutely certain that my experiences at Harvard have limits to their transferability. Nonetheless, I hope that my contribution will be of interest, use, and perhaps of influence.
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Steinitz, C. (2014). On teaching Ecological Principles to designers. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_33
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