With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature

by Stephen Kaplan, Rachel Kaplan, Robert Ryan

Book Overview

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.

With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature" -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests -- in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559635940
• ISBN13: 9781559635943
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"