ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 documents the interdisciplinary design process of McHarg and his firm Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd (WMRT) as they tackled the wicked design problems found on The Woodlands site. Key features of the process include: (1) multidiscipline integration to provide holistic design strategies, (2) ability to tackle wicked design problems residing in a wide range of scales, and (3) targeting landscape performance in a quantitative manner. The chapter presents project goals and interrelated land-planning strategies that have been implemented, as well as the social programming that McHarg seriously attempted. It closes with a summary of literature on project performance.
