Ian McHarg Personal Brief IntroductionIan McHarg was born in Scotland in 1920, fought in World War II, then studied landscape architecture and city planning at Harvard University from 1946 to 1949. After graduation, he worked and taught in Glasgow and Edinburgh, then returned to the United States in 1954 as an assistant professor of city planning at the University of Pennsylvania. At the time of his arrival, the Department of Land and City Planning, founded in 1950, was the most exciting planni
