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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... planet, and the future generations for whom we need to steward what remains of it. Some readers may find this book pessimistic, although I wrote it with the opposite temperament in mind. Design and ethics both seek to improve the world ...
... planet will thrive in the centuries ahead. About the only prescription you will find in the book is that, whatever the specific solutions may be, they will almost all involve much less consumption of finite resources and much more use ...
... planet has begun to show similar strain, and the stresses on it have begun to increase exponentially. We have seen the exponential growth of the human population, which has gone from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to an expected 9.3 billion ...
... planet, to do everything we can, from this moment on, to change our behaviour in ways that will keep the social and environmental structure supporting our civilization from collapsing. There are, of course, many who have already ...
... planet remains unaffected by human activity, which is what he meant by nature as something separate from us having come to an end19. We have seen McKibben's claim reinforced over and over again as we have witnessed ever more rapid rates ...
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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 |