Reshaping the built environment
Subtitle: ecology, ethics, and economics
By: edited by Charles J. Kibert ; foreword by Alex Wilson.
Contributors: Kibert, Charles J.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Real estate development -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Construction industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States
Description: This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil engineering, economics, architecture, construction, and a host of other fields who are seeking to discover ways of creating a more sustainable built environment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert; title: Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stepher R. Kellert; title: Environmental ethics / Sarah van Gelder; title: Uneconomic growth and the built environment / Herman E. Daly; title: Introduction to renewable energy technologies / Stephen J. Strong; title: Environmentally responsible building materials selection / Nadav Malin; title: Ecological design, living machines, and the purification of waters / John Todd; title: Landscape: source of life or liability / John Tillman Lyle; title: Construction and demolition waste / Peter Yost; title: Building values / Gail A. Lindsey; title: Architecture as pedagogy / David Orr; title: Biourbanism and sustainable urban planning / Daniel Williams; title: Creating greener communities through conservation subdivision design / Randall Arendt; title: Environmentally superior buildings from birth to death / Thomas E. Graedel; title: Environmental performance of buildings / Raymond J. Cole; title: The Chicago Brownfields initiative / William C. Trumbull; title: Sustainable new town and industrial ecology / Ernest A. Lowe.