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Planning Methods
John Tillman Lyle’s Design for
Human Ecosystems
Island Press, 1999

John T. Lyle
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Architect and Landscape
Architect, Tulane
University and UC
Berkeley
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Cal Poly Pomona
Professor and Chair
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Author of two books,
many articles
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Winner of ASLA Medal
of Honor and numerous
other awards

Design for Human Ecosystems

Design for Human Ecosystems
Design Methods
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JTL created design method based upon
Alfred North Whitehead’s theories of
learning
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Stages of learning/design: Romance,
Precision, Generalization
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Intuitive and analytical

Proposing
(Creative)
Disposing
(Analytic)
Proposing Disposing
Modes of Thinking
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The interaction between the creative (right-brain) and the
analytic (left-brain) thinking processes throughout the entire
design procedure.
(From: Turnbull et al 2000 and Lyle’s
Design for Human Ecosystems)

Design Method

Design Processes and Methods
Stage of
Romance
(Right-Brain)
Stage of
Generalization
(Right and left-
Brain)
Stage of Precision
(Left-Brain)
(Source: Lyle’s Design for Human Ecosystems
And Turnbull et al 2000)

Scales of Concern

Lyle’s View of Human Ecosystem Interactions
Living Nature
Physical Nature
People
Ecological Processes
(As interpreted by
Turnbull et al 2000)