Building Green : Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

Building Green Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

"Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rademacher, Anne, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2018].
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > India > Mumbai.
Architecture > Environmental aspects > India > Mumbai.
Architects > India > Mumbai.
Sustainable architecture > India > Mumbai.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425414506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • City ascending, city imploding
  • The integrated subject
  • Ecology in practice : environmental architecture as good design
  • Rectifying failure : imagining the new city and the power to create it
  • More than human nature and the open space predicament
  • Consciousness and Indian-ness : making design "good"
  • A vocation in waiting : ecology in practice
  • Soldiering sustainability.

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