Five Reasons: To Adopt Environmental Design
18: Building Nature’s Ruin?: Realities, Illusions, and Efficacy of Nature-Sustaining Design
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What is relatively certain about human-induced climate change and its present and future effects? To what extent does the making and use of the built environment contribute to climate change, species extinction, and other environmental degradation? What would it take to lessen this degradation, and how much could it be lessened? It is too late to make a significant difference? What role can and should design and planning have in sustaining nature as we have known it? How effective is existing “green design” in architecture and landscape architecture? How can effective green design become the norm in the making of the built environment? Scientists and designers address these and related questions here.
Articles
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Essay
A Post-Apocalyptic View of Ecology and Design: Thirteen Recent Books
Richard Ingersoll
Better Angels of Our Nature: Ecological Design and Organizational Learning
David Orr
Delicate Beast
George Wagner
Energy, Body, Building: Rethinking Sustainable Design Solutions
Michelle Addington
Everything is Architecture
Liane Lefaivre
Five Reasons: To Adopt Environmental Design
Susannah Hagan
Green World, Gray Heart?: The Promise and the Reality of Landscape Architecture in Sustaining Nature
Robert France
Invitation to the Dance: Sustainability and the Expanded Realm of Design
Peter Buchanan
Learning from the Bidonville
Zeynep Çelik
Vulnerable Inside The Happy Crowd
Fookling Benita Lee
What Can We Do?
Carl Steinitz, Hashim Sarkis, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Michael McElroy, Michelle Addington, Randolph Croxton, Robert France, William Clark, William S. Saunders, William Shutkin
Review
Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning by Chester Hartman
Ann Forsyth
Surface Architecture by David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi
Daniel Willis
Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography by David Leatherbarrow
Daniel Willis