Architectural Design and EthicsRoutledge, 9 de maig 2008 - 264 pàgines Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions. The book also has practical goals, demonstrating how architects can make better and more beautiful buildings whilst nurturing more responsible, sustainable development. Architectural Design and Ethics will prove an invaluable text not only to those in the architecture field, but to anyone simply interested in the ethical issues surrounding our built environment. |
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Pàgina vii
... human population, we face a new century quite unlike the one just past. The appropriate reactions to these challenges will vary from one place to another. The abandonment of cities because of flooding, as we have seen in New Orleans ...
... human population, we face a new century quite unlike the one just past. The appropriate reactions to these challenges will vary from one place to another. The abandonment of cities because of flooding, as we have seen in New Orleans ...
Pàgina viii
... human and environmental consequences of our over population and over consumption of resources, design and ethics can prepare us for a different kind of future; one in which we can sustain ourselves, along with the other species with ...
... human and environmental consequences of our over population and over consumption of resources, design and ethics can prepare us for a different kind of future; one in which we can sustain ourselves, along with the other species with ...
Pàgina 2
... human population, which has gone from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to an expected 9.3 billion people by 2050, with the greatest increase expected in the last decade of that 100-year period1. We have also seen an exponential growth in the ...
... human population, which has gone from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to an expected 9.3 billion people by 2050, with the greatest increase expected in the last decade of that 100-year period1. We have also seen an exponential growth in the ...
Pàgina 3
... human populations, and unsustainable levels of consumption6. We do not know which factor will prove most critical or cause the greatest disruption, but Diamond reminds us that addressing a few of these dozen problems will not be enough ...
... human populations, and unsustainable levels of consumption6. We do not know which factor will prove most critical or cause the greatest disruption, but Diamond reminds us that addressing a few of these dozen problems will not be enough ...
Pàgina 4
... human civilization have never been greater and never been at a global scale, as they are now. While individual societies and cultures have collapsed, usually because of some combination of an over-taxed natural environment, a rapidly ...
... human civilization have never been greater and never been at a global scale, as they are now. While individual societies and cultures have collapsed, usually because of some combination of an over-taxed natural environment, a rapidly ...
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How nature suffers in the naturalistic fallacy | 35 |
Why having less is more | 69 |
When virtues are no vice | 103 |
Drafting a new social contract | 135 |
The needs of duty | 171 |
The consequences of ignoring consequences | 203 |
References | 237 |
Index | 245 |
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