New Directions in Sustainable Design.

New Directions in Sustainable Design.

There has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which entails a case-by-case analysis of various projects in architecture, urbanism, and product design. This book brings together various perspectives on sustainability.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parr, Adrian
Other Authors: Zaretsky, Michael (Michael L.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Subjects:
Sustainable design.
sustainable architecture.
Sustainable design
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 InfrastructureChapter 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.

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