Anne Whiston Spirn
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“
Natural Cities: Designing Cities in Harmony with Nature
,”
MIT Spectrum
, Fall 2002
“Shaping the City to Nature’s Laws”
Boston Globe
, May 26, 1985
Selected Awards for Professional Work
General
2001 International Cosmos Prize Book
2001 International Cosmos Prize Website
2002 National Design Award Finalist
The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan
2004, Community Service Award, American Society of Landscape Architects for the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
1998 Person of the Month, Philadelphia School District for the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
The Sanibel Plan, Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd
2007 National Planning Landmark Award:
Citation
Plan for Woodlands, Texas, Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd
1974 Special Award for Contribution to a Better Environment, American Society of Landscape Architects
1974 Special Mention, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Reviews
The West Philadelphia Landscape Project
“Living on Earth,” Public Radio International
“Landscape Organism,” Landscape Architecture
Bio-City
(in Japanese)
Knack, Ruth. “Dig These Gardens” Planning 60:7 (July 1994): 20-24.
Hine, Thomas. “Surroundings: A Long Buried Creek in West Philadelphia,”
Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer
, November 15, 1992.
The Sanibel Plan
“Paradise Island: Sanibel Island’s 1976 Plan Put Ecology First,"
Planning
, April 2007.
Woodlands, Texas
“Ian McHarg's Woodlands: A Second Look,”
Planning
, August-September 2003.
West Philadelphia Project Web Sites
West Philadelphia Landscape Project