Margie Ruddick at Oblong Books & Music

Thursday, 5 May 2016 - 6:00pm
Oblong Books & Music
6422 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12571
United States

Thursday, May 5 at 6:00 pm

With Wild by Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes, Margie Ruddick delivers an inspirational guide for innovative landscape design that integrates ecology, urban planning, and culture. Her globe-spanning examples demonstrate how a project’s function and design can work in concert to create beautiful, healthy places that connect people with the natural systems around them. She argues that it’s not enough for a place to fulfill sustainability checklists with the optimized energy performance or stormwater management techniques; to invest people in landscapes, designers must also consider the cultural and artistic aspects of landscapes. More details here