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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... problems will not be enough. Any one of the factors on Diamond's list could trigger a tectonic shift in human affairs. It is not hard to see what such a shift might entail. A global pandemic, in a matter of weeks, could kill hundreds of ...
Thomas Fisher. Some might rightly observe that we have faced such problems before. We have survived pandemics, dealt with storms and droughts, and undergone transitions in our fuel sources. The difference is that the problems now exist ...
... problem, so too can it become part of the solution. The interest in sustainability and the 'greening' of products and environments is an indication of the design community's readiness for change, although there remains the dilemma of ...
... That functionalist approach to the problem had the advantage of being fair, but it made the mistake, like most functionalist design of the twentieth century, of assuming that people care only about usefulness. 7 Our collapsing global ...
... problem. 'The rich only select from the heap what is most precious and agreeable', wrote Smith. 'They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity... though the sole end which they propose ...
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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 |