| Something Lived, Something Dreamed: Urban Design and the American West |
| Red Butte Press, 2004 |
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| The award-winning Red Butte Press has unveiled a fine-press limited-edition publication, Something Lived, Something Dreamed: Urban Design and the American West. Reimagining the city through William McDonough’s visionary lens, the Press' handmade edition of this spirited manifesto features letterpress monoprints by Washington artist Christopher Stern.
Examining the complex relationship between natural and urban landscapes in western American cities, Something Lived, Something Dreamed offers a lyrical invitation to reconsider the rich relationship between nature and city in the 21st century.
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| Buildings Like Trees, Cities Like Forests |
| by William McDonough and Michael Braungart |
| TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow (Pearson Educational Press, 2002) |
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| “...when we survey the future -- the prospects for buildings and cities, settled and unsettled lands -- we see a new sensibility emerging, one in which inhabiting a place becomes mindful, delightful participation in landscape. This perspective is both rigorous and poetic. It is built on design principles inspired by nature's laws. It is enacted by immersing oneself in the life of a place to discover the most fitting and beautiful materials and forms. It is a design aesthetic that draws equally on the poetics of science and the poetics of space. We hope it is the design strategy of the future.” |
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| The Living City: Nature, Design and the Greening of Chicago |
| by William McDonough |
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| "Over the past several years, Mayor Richard M. Daley has been putting forth a vision for the future of Chicago that would have made the city's old ward bosses blanch. In a town once best known for the railroad and the stockyard, the smokestack and the Board of Trade, the mayor is saying that he wants to make Chicago the 'greenest city in America.'" |
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| Dear Conscious Choice |
| by William McDonough |
| Conscious Choice 15, no. 9 (September 2002) |
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| "Thank you for your kind and thoughtful welcome to Chicago. It is indeed a great town. I've enjoyed the look and feel and lively pulse of the city for years and, as you've gathered from "the word on the street," your hometown has been much on my mind lately as I've begun to help Mayor Daley fulfill his pledge to make Chicago the greenest city in America." |
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| A New Geography of Hope: Landscape, Design and the Renewal of Ecological Intelligence |
| by William McDonough and Michael Braungart |
from Extreme Landscapes: The Lure of Mountain Places
(National Geographic Adventure Press in association with the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture, 2002) |
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| “Perhaps a distant wilderness, an idea of wild country, positions nature too far from our daily lives....North Americans tend to think that true nature can only be found on the pristine, remote extremities of civilization and that these places have little to do with the everyday human world. Culture is here, nature far away. The trouble is not with protecting and preserving wilderness (why not many places like Yosemite?), it's that the design of the world we inhabit-our communities, our workplaces, our economy-is so impermeable to nature it is all too easy to leave our reverence in the parking lots of national parks.” |
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