Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability
Subtitle: a Harvard design magazine reader
By: William S. Saunders, editor ; introduction by Robert L. Thayer, Jr
Series: Harvard design magazine readers -- 6
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780816653584; 9780816653591
Description: The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision - sustainability - to guide their practices.
Notes: "The essays in this book previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The destitution of space : from cosmic order to cyber disorientation / Albert Borgmann; title: Humans supplant God, everything changes / Bill McKibben; title: Too much : the Grand Canyon(s) / Lucy R. Lippard; title: What do we make of nature now? / Catherine Howett; title: Kiss nature goodbye : marketing the great outdoors / John Beardsley; title: Beyond wilderness and lawn / Michael Pollan; title: Nature used and abused : politics and rhetoric in American preservation and conservation / Rossana Vaccarino; title: Five reasons to adopt environmental design / Susannah Hagan; title: Invitation to the dance : sustainability and the expanded realm of design / Peter Buchanan; title: Green world, gray heart? The promise and reality of landscape architecture in sustaining nature / Robert France; title: Green good, better, and best : effective ecological design in cities / Kristina Hill; title: Energy, body, building : rethinking sustainable design solutions / Michelle Addington; title: Here come the hyperaccumulators! Cleaning toxic sites from the roots up / Niall Kirkwood; title: Neocreationism and the illusion of ecological restoration / Peter Del Tredici; title: A word for landscape architecture / John Beardsley.