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

William S Saunders

Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press c2008

Emprestado de FAU - Fac. Arquitetura e Urbanismo    (712.01 N219 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability a Harvard design magazine reader
  • Autor: William S Saunders
  • Assuntos: ARQUITETURA PAISAGÍSTICA (TEORIA); SUSTENTABILIDADE
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references.
  • Descrição: 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.
    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 - to guide their practices.
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Harvard design magazine readers ; 6.
  • Editor: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2008
  • Formato: xv, 201 p. ill. 24 cm..
  • Idioma: Inglês

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