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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... environmental resources upon which we have built our world and around which we have constructed our lives. Many of us may talk about the importance of sustainability and growing numbers of us use 'green' materials and 'energy efficient ...
... environmental collapse, and more that of fear. As my psychologist father used to say, fear often arises out of an apprehension of loss and a worry that others will take advantage of us as a result, and this is where ethics can help us ...
... environmental collapse, it has been our hubris, and one thing that will keep us from going completely over that edge, will be our humility in the face of all that we don't know, cannot control, and have yet to learn from the millions of ...
... environmental historian Jared Diamond, in his book Collapse, estimates that we have before we see the effects of the dramatic declines in natural habitats, fish populations, biological diversity, and farmable soil, before we begin to ...
... environmental structure supporting our civilization from collapsing. There are, of course, many who have already advocated that position and many more who have begun working to make it happen. This book has another purpose: to talk ...
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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 |