died on 5 March 2001 at the age of eighty from pulmonary disease. Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology In the summer of 2017, the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design launched a new, interdisciplinary research center in McHarg's honor. Anticipating the 50th publication anniversary of his text Design with Nature, the McHarg Center's public launch took place in June 2019 as a part of an event, exhibition, and book project known as "Design with Nature Now". Its mission is to build on The Weitzman School's position as a global leader in urban ecological design by bringing environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The center is led by co-Executive Directors Frederick Steiner and Richard Weller. Its founding Wilks Family Director is Billy Fleming. Books To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of Ian L. McHarg 1998 A Quest for Life: An Autobiography Ian L. McHarg 1996 Design with Nature Ian L. McHarg 1969 Ian McHarg: Dwelling in Nature: Conversations with Students 2007 The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature Frederick Steiner 2006 See also Garden real estate History of gardening Landscape ecology Land Ethic Loren Eiseley Ecology References External links Obituary at Pennsylvania Gazette The Woodlands-The Second Look by Ann Forsyth History of Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd American Society of Landscape Architects 1920 births 2001 deaths Scottish architects Scottish landscape architects Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni United States National Medal of Arts recipients Environmental planning Human ecologists Urban theorists People from Clydebank British expatriates in the United States