{"product_id":"wild-by-design-margie-ruddick-9781610915984","title":"Wild by Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes","description":"Can nature--in all its unruly wildness--be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, \u003ci\u003eWild by Design\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the entrenched belief that natural processes cannot complement high-level landscape design. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild by Design \u003c\/i\u003edefines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, beauty, and meaning to landscapes: Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration, and Expression. Drawing on her own projects--from New York City's Queens Plaza, formerly a concrete jungle of traffic, to a desertscape backyard in Baja, California, to the Living Water Park in Chengdu, China--she offers guidance on creating beautiful, healthy landscapes that successfully reconnect people with larger natural systems. \u003cbr\u003e A revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners, \u003ci\u003eWild by Design\u003c\/i\u003e stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of broader, more flexible strategies and practical examples that allow for the unexpected exuberance of nature to be a welcome part of our gardens, parks, backyards, and cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margie Ruddick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1610915984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610915984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Island Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 8.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Margie Ruddick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078505099519,"sku":"9781610915984","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17ac78f7-f862-496c-9579-bd10cf6cd212.jpg?v=1685475901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-by-design-margie-ruddick-9781610915984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}