"This book highlights both how important biodiversity considerations are to planning and design and how essential good planning and design are to conserving biodiversity. The case studies offer important lessons for strengthening the links between biodiversity conservation and planning and design practice."
Timothy P. Duane, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley
"Restoration requires a big vision informed and balanced by reality. These case studies have the advantage of hindsight to assess what worked and what did not work, yielding invaluable insights for both practitioners and planners."
Leslie Jones Sauer, author of "The Once and Future Forest"; founder, Andropogon Associates
"Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices is a valuable resource for students, practitioners, and environmental activists that describes, through multiple case studies, a diverse range of projects in varied climates, and at scales that range from small sites to regions. That the planning and design process, and post-construction challenges and performance are included only increases the book's value."
William Wenk, FASLA, Founder/President, Wenk Associates Inc.