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. |
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Fformat: | Llyfr |
Iaith: | English |
Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008] |
Cyfres: | Harvard design magazine readers ;
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Mynediad Ar-lein: | Table of contents |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Introduction
- I. Imagining Nature
- 1. The Destitution of Space: From Cosmic Order to Cyber Disorientation
- 2. Humans Supplant God, Everything Changes
- 3. Too Much: The Grand Canyon(s)
- 4. What Do We Make of Nature Now?
- 5. Kiss Nature Goodbye: Marketing the Great Outdoors
- 6. Beyond Wilderness and Lawn
- II. Designing (for) Nature
- 7. Nature Used and Abused: Politics and Rhetoric in American Preservation and Conservation
- 8. Five Reasons to Adopt Environmental Design
- 9. Invitation to the Dance: Sustainability and the Expanded Realm of Design
- 10. Green World, Gray Heart? The Promise and Reality of Landscape Architecture in Sustaining Nature
- 11. Green Good, Better, and Best: Effective Ecological Design in Cities
- 12. Energy, Body, Building: Rethinking Sustainable Design Solutions
- 13. Here Come the Hyperaccumulators! Cleaning Toxic Sites from the Roots Up
- 14. Neocreationism and the Illusion of Ecological Restoration
- 15. A Word for Landscape Architecture
- Contributors