The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism

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Synopsis
This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. Exploring the innovation of materials, habitats, landscapes, and infrastructures, it furthers novel ecotopian ideas and ways of living, including human-made settings on water, in outer space, and in extreme environments and climatic conditions. Chapters of this extensive collection on ecotopian design are grouped under five different ecological perspectives: design manifestos and ecological theories, anthropocentric transformative design concepts, design connectivity, climatic design, and social design. Contributors provide plausible, sustainable design ideas that promote resiliency, health, and well-being for all living things, while taking our changing lifestyles into consideration. This volume encourages creative thinking in the face of ongoing environmental damage, with a view to making design decisions in the interest of the planet and its inhabitants. With contributions from over 79 expert practitioners, educators, scientists, researchers, and theoreticians, as well as planners, architects, and engineers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, this book engages theory, history, technology, engineering, and science, as well as the human aspects of ecotopian design thinking and its implications for the outlook of the planet.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
648 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000629316
Related ISBNs:
9781003183181, 9781032023908, 9781032023892
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Mitra Kanaani
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Earth Sciences
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Mitra Kanaani

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