An edition of Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability
(2008)
Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability
a Harvard design magazine reader
by William S. Saunders
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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.
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Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability: a Harvard design magazine reader
2008, University of Minnesota Press
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0816653585 9780816653584
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Table of Contents
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.
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"The essays in this book previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
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