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Ian McHarg

1,920–2,001 · United Kingdom · Landscape architect · added by @Alaaeldin ★ Top contributor

Career

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Scottish-American landscape architect and Penn professor. *Design with Nature* (1969) introduced map-overlay analysis — the conceptual precursor to GIS — as a tool for ecology-led regional planning.

Legacy

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His department at Penn produced a generation of ecologically-trained landscape architects and helped establish environmental impact assessment in US planning law.

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