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. |
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... to a sudden and dramatic decrease in the availability of oil, which in turn would send prices soaring and economies into depression10. Some might rightly observe that we have faced such problems 3 Our collapsing global bridge.
... economy, and an already highly stressed natural environment – all giving us much less room for error. Any of these events could happen suddenly and unexpectedly, and any of them would, in turn, affect us all. While we would no doubt ...
... harder than it is now. But whether the global economy will continue to grow and material prosperity will continue to expand is another matter, especially if we see a collapse in some of Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival 6.
... economics in ways that will be quite useful if we have a collapse of some sort in the future15. One of the first things we might lose in such a scenario is some amount of material wealth, which Smith puts in perspective. 'Power and ...
... economic system collapse. Both communism and capitalism, for all of their differences, have had the effect of ... economy, but it becomes a definite disadvantage if we end up, as James Howard Kunstler envisions in The Long Emergency ...
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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 |