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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... once the stresses in a structure pass a certain point, they often increase exponentially to the point where fracture or collapse occurs. Like a bridge, our planet has begun to show similar strain, and the stresses on it have begun to ...
Thomas Fisher. which there was a nutrient and one microbe, whose progeny divided once every minute, doubling the population every time. At 60 minutes, the microbes will have filled the vial and consumed all their food, but at 59 minutes ...
... once had. Ironically, Adam Smith's ideas may become even more important as we adjust to such changes. While communists focused on use value, and capitalists on exchange value, we might, instead, focus on the ethical values implicit in ...
... once again work, but the disapproval of neighbours can only go so far. The other check on 'natural selfishness and rapacity' of rich, thought Smith, was the development of a virtuous character. Smith was quite dismissive of the ...
Thomas Fisher. fundamental changes in our lives. As Einstein once observed, 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them', and that is true of our political economy as it is of particle physics. Many ...
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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 |