Ian McHarg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish landscape architect
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1920
Place of Birth: Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 05-Mar-2001
Profession: architect
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Ian McHarg
- Ian L.
- McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems.
- McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy.
- He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
- His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning.
- It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning.
- In this book, he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems.
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