Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability : a Harvard design magazine reader /

The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision - sustainability...

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Other Authors / Creators:Saunders, William S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Series:Harvard design magazine readers ; 6.
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505 0 |a The destitution of space : from cosmic order to cyber disorientation / Albert Borgmann -- Humans supplant God, everything changes / Bill McKibben -- Too much : the Grand Canyon(s) / Lucy R. Lippard -- What do we make of nature now? / Catherine Howett -- Kiss nature goodbye : marketing the great outdoors / John Beardsley -- Beyond wilderness and lawn / Michael Pollan -- Nature used and abused : politics and rhetoric in American preservation and conservation / Rossana Vaccarino -- Five reasons to adopt environmental design / Susannah Hagan -- Invitation to the dance : sustainability and the expanded realm of design / Peter Buchanan -- Green world, gray heart? The promise and reality of landscape architecture in sustaining nature / Robert France -- Green good, better, and best : effective ecological design in cities / Kristina Hill -- Energy, body, building : rethinking sustainable design solutions / Michelle Addington -- Here come the hyperaccumulators! Cleaning toxic sites from the roots up / Niall Kirkwood -- Neocreationism and the illusion of ecological restoration / Peter Del Tredici -- A word for landscape architecture / John Beardsley. 
500 |a "The essays in this book previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine"--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
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