Overview: Concisely presents the basic principles of biophilic design.Introduces a coherent intellectual framework for the value of nature in the urban century.Explores how biophilic city design can counter-act.This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urban growth
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