Development
Ideals
Design for Human Ecosystems by John Tillman Lyle; Van
Nostrand Reinhold; New York, N.Y.; 1985; 269 pages;
$39.95 hardcover.
When I left California for New
England many years ago the public
was on the verge of a major debate
over development of the state's
lengthy and scenic coastline. Opinion
was polarized between the
environmentalists who cried for no
development, and the developers who
seemed to want to turn the edge of
the Pacific into suburbia. There
seemed to be little middle ground,
despite the well-publicized — but only
partially successful — example of Sea
Ranch, an ecologically designed
development north of San Francisco.
The question, it seems to me, is not
whether to develop or not, but how to
create