Design with the Desert —— Conservation and Sustainable Development

----- 设计沙漠：保护和可持续发展

ISBN: 9781138076969 出版年：2016 页码：607 CRC Press

The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities often resulted in scraping these desert lands of an ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and nat