Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203843031
Content:
This book brings together new and emerging perspectives on sustainability. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sustainable design, it develops a coherent theoretical framework for how a philosophy of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of sustainable design
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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Illustration Credits -- Contributors -- Foreword: The Adulthood of the Species -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Principles -- Chapter 1 Letter to the Profession of Architecture -- Chapter 2 Art, Politics, and Climate Change -- Chapter 3 Interview with Janet Laurence on Public Art and Ecology -- Chapter 4 The Brunel Lecture -- Part II Ecologies -- Chapter 5 Ecological Modernism and the Making of a New Working Class -- Chapter 6 Back to the Garden: The Ecological Evolution of the Atlantic Yards -- Chapter 7 Building Recombinant Ecologies: Triangulating Policy, Models, and Design in Urban Infrastructure -- Chapter 8 Patchworks, Ecologies, and the Contemporary City -- Part III Resiliences -- Chapter 9 Design from the Ground Up: Risks and Opportunities in Humanitarian Design -- Chapter 10 Constructive Dialogue: Community Building as a Tool of Social Change -- Chapter 11 Interview with Durganand Balsavar (Nandan): Director-Principal Architect of ARTES-Human Settlements Development Collaborative, Chennai, India -- Chapter 12 The Politics of the Southeast Asian Smog Crises: A Classic Case of Rentier Capitalism at Work? -- Chapter 13 Designing Resilience: Sustainable Design from a Complex Systems Perspective -- Part IV Techniques -- Chapter 14 Technique Is the Architecture of Sustainability -- Chapter 15 How Is LEED Faring after Five Years in Use? -- Chapter 16 LEED after Ten Years -- Chapter 17 Interview with Christof Jantzen of Behnisch Architekten -- Chapter 18 Reinventing the Wheels -- Part V Concepts -- Chapter 19 The Sustainability of Concepts: Knowledge and Human Interests -- Chapter 20 Undoing the Subject: Deleuze and the Makings of a Sustainable Life -- Chapter 21 Cultural Symbolizations of a Sustainable Future -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Parr, Adrian New Directions in Sustainable Design Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415780360
Language:
English
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