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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... effect this exponential growth will have on the stability of our civilization or the habitability of our planet, but it has become clear to most observers that we cannot continue moving at these exponential rates without some very ...
... effects of the dramatic declines in natural habitats, fish populations, biological diversity, and farmable soil, before we begin to reach a ceiling on inexpensive fossil fuels, accessible fresh water, and plant growth per acre, and ...
... most employees still drive long distances to work. The real changes will come with a rethinking of what we really need and how we should live – questions that can have a profound effect not 5 Our collapsing global bridge.
Thomas Fisher. live – questions that can have a profound effect not only on our use of natural resources, but also on the quality of our own lives. Design offers a process with which to tackle such questions, a way of helping people sort ...
... effect of concentrating power and expertise in the hands of relatively few people, whether they be government bureaucrats or private sector professionals. This, in turn, has made the public dependent upon the expertise of specialists ...
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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 |