Ian McHarg Dies At 80

"Ian L. McHarg, a landscape architect, planner and teacher whose passion for meshing communities and ecology inspired scores of successors, died on March 5 in Chester, Pa., near Philadelphia. He was 80. He used any medium available, including books and television, to impart his essential message: that no human action, be it building a highway, city, condominium or park, should proceed without a study of its suitability for the topography, vegetation, waterways, wildlife and other natural features of a site." [McHarg's book , "Design With Nature" is listed on the PLANetizen 20, the list of all-time top 20 urban planning books.]