Frederick Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5648571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3692-7639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Science reinforces legitimacy; ideology can undermine legitimacy
Alexander Cuthbert and Gusti Suartika assert that ‘ideology must be included for a complete and encompassing theoretical engagement’ (2025, 658). Fine – but which ideology? The authors employ spati
Reflective socio-ecological practice
Erosion and deposition
To paraphrase American artist Robert Smithson (1968): ‘The strata of cities are jumbled museums.’1All places begin with hope. Then time kicks in. At the building scale, Mohsen Mostafavi and David L
Landscape governance
Design With Nature at 50
Ian L. McHarg
Design With Nature at 50
Toward an ecological aesthetic
Ian L. McHarg
Healing the Earth
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1993
Human Ecology
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will beâ even as we create everâ larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In this publication, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to contribute to a future where both nature and people…
Ed Bacon
Planning Ideas That Matter
Commentary
Integral Urbanism by Nan Ellin
Nan Ellin, Integral Urbanism (New York: Routledge, 2006).Suddenly, we are overflowing with urbanisms in this first urban century. There’s new urbanism, which evolved from neotraditionalism. New urb
Assessing Planning School Performance
To grow and prosper in an era when university departments are increasingly assessed comparatively and critically by national systems of accountability and ranking, planning schools need data that reflect the wide range of activities undertaken by planning educators. Recent developments surrounding planning school assessment in U.S. planning schools are considered in light of the history of university unit performance measurement internationally, …
From knowledge to action
Commentary
Potential use of land trust mechanisms for conservation on the Mexican‐U.S. border
Land trusts have been widely recognized as a successful method for preserving agricultural land, historic buildings, scenic views, trails, wetlands, and wildlife areas of biological importance in the United States. In Mexico, such land trusts are practically unknown. In the Mexican‐U.S. border region, where landscapes are rapidly deteriorating and habitat is disappearing at an alarming rate, private conservation might prove an invaluable asset as…
Concepts for Alternative Suburban Planning in the Northern Phoenix Area
As part of ongoing cooperation between the City of Phoenix and Arizona State University, a charrette was organized. Planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, and architects explored concepts for development within a 110-square-mile (285-km2) portion of Phoenix. The charrette was the summation of over a year of environment studies of the planning area. This part of northern Phoenix occupies a largely undeveloped upper Sonoran deser…
The small town planning handbook
The Food Security Act of 1985
The evolution of federal agricultural land use policy in the United States
Rural land uses and planning
Planning Ideas That Matter
Commentary
The evolution of federal agricultural land use policy in the United States
Assessing Planning School Performance
To grow and prosper in an era when university departments are increasingly assessed comparatively and critically by national systems of accountability and ranking, planning schools need data that reflect the wide range of activities undertaken by planning educators. Recent developments surrounding planning school assessment in U.S. planning schools are considered in light of the history of university unit performance measurement internationally, …
Concepts for Alternative Suburban Planning in the Northern Phoenix Area
As part of ongoing cooperation between the City of Phoenix and Arizona State University, a charrette was organized. Planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, and architects explored concepts for development within a 110-square-mile (285-km2) portion of Phoenix. The charrette was the summation of over a year of environment studies of the planning area. This part of northern Phoenix occupies a largely undeveloped upper Sonoran deser…
The small town planning handbook
From knowledge to action
Commentary
Rural land uses and planning
The evolution of federal agricultural land use policy in the United States
The small town planning handbook
The Food Security Act of 1985
Concepts for Alternative Suburban Planning in the Northern Phoenix Area
As part of ongoing cooperation between the City of Phoenix and Arizona State University, a charrette was organized. Planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, and architects explored concepts for development within a 110-square-mile (285-km2) portion of Phoenix. The charrette was the summation of over a year of environment studies of the planning area. This part of northern Phoenix occupies a largely undeveloped upper Sonoran deser…
Potential use of land trust mechanisms for conservation on the Mexican‐U.S. border
Land trusts have been widely recognized as a successful method for preserving agricultural land, historic buildings, scenic views, trails, wetlands, and wildlife areas of biological importance in the United States. In Mexico, such land trusts are practically unknown. In the Mexican‐U.S. border region, where landscapes are rapidly deteriorating and habitat is disappearing at an alarming rate, private conservation might prove an invaluable asset as…
Commentary
From knowledge to action
Assessing Planning School Performance
To grow and prosper in an era when university departments are increasingly assessed comparatively and critically by national systems of accountability and ranking, planning schools need data that reflect the wide range of activities undertaken by planning educators. Recent developments surrounding planning school assessment in U.S. planning schools are considered in light of the history of university unit performance measurement internationally, …
Integral Urbanism by Nan Ellin
Nan Ellin, Integral Urbanism (New York: Routledge, 2006).Suddenly, we are overflowing with urbanisms in this first urban century. There’s new urbanism, which evolved from neotraditionalism. New urb
Commentary
Planning Ideas That Matter
Ed Bacon
Human Ecology
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will beâ even as we create everâ larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In this publication, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to contribute to a future where both nature and people…
Healing the Earth
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1993
Design With Nature at 50
Ian L. McHarg
Design With Nature at 50
Toward an ecological aesthetic
Ian L. McHarg
Erosion and deposition
To paraphrase American artist Robert Smithson (1968): ‘The strata of cities are jumbled museums.’1All places begin with hope. Then time kicks in. At the building scale, Mohsen Mostafavi and David L
Landscape governance
Reflective socio-ecological practice
Science reinforces legitimacy; ideology can undermine legitimacy
Alexander Cuthbert and Gusti Suartika assert that ‘ideology must be included for a complete and encompassing theoretical engagement’ (2025, 658). Fine – but which ideology? The authors employ spati
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