Wild By Design Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscap
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Margie Ruddick
WILD BY DESIGN
WILD BY DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR CREATING LIFE-ENHANCING LANDSCAPES
MARGIE RUDDICK Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2016 Margie Ruddick All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036. Island Press is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950738 Printed on recycled, acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Keywords: Baja, beauty, biodiversity, Chengdu, China, climate change, coastal protection, Coney Island, conservation, ecology, expression, flooding, Governors Island, green infrastructure, habitat, health, India, Kinderhook, landscape architecture, levee, Liberty State Park, living machine, Living Water Park, mental health, Miami Beach, natural infrastructure, New York City, park, particulate matter, Philadelphia, Queens Plaza, recreation, regeneration, reinvention, resilience, restoration, shade, Shillim Retreat and Institute, Staten Island, stewardship, stormwater, sustainable design, Urban Garden Room, urbanization, water quality, Western Ghats
To parents, stewards, teachers, students, children— all children, and mine.
CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1: A Laboratory for Wild By Design. . . . . . . 15 Chapter 2: Reinvention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 A diverse array of tactics that can build on the attributes of a place but change the way it functions and is perceived.
Chapter 3: Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 More than just “putting back what was there,” restoration engages design strategies for understanding the different functions of restoration.
Chapter 4: Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Principles of conservation—to use little, minimize waste, safeguard a landscape that is at risk, make connections, and promote awareness— can be thoroughly integrated into the design process.
Chapter 5: Regeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Understanding that we are helping to set processes in motion that will sustain a place after the designers are done.
Chapter 6: Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Refocusing on the art of what we do, the meaning of our work.
Conclusion: What Are We Doing Here, Anyway? . . . . . 225 Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233 Illustration and Photograph Credits . . . . . . . .237
Preface
For a half century, a stretch of Route 1 that runs through Saugus, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, was lit up by the giant glass saguaro cactus in front of Hilltop Steakhouse. The aging highway strip also included the Kowloon Polynesian Restaurant (with an immense tiki god smiling out at the parking lot), and a mini-golf sporting brightly
