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

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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 mean...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rademacher, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland : University of California Press, 2017.
Temas:
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture.
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture
Sustainable architecture > India > Mumbai.
Architects > India > Mumbai.
Architecture > Environmental aspects > India > Mumbai.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > India > Mumbai.
Architecture durable > Inde > Mumbai.
Architectes > Inde > Mumbai.
Architecture > Aspect de l'environnement > Inde > Mumbai.
Écologie urbaine > Inde > Mumbai.
Anthropology.
Environmental science, engineering and technology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Technology, engineering, agriculture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Architects
Architecture > Environmental aspects
Sustainable architecture
Urban ecology (Sociology)
India > Mumbai
Environmental anthropology
Environmental architecture
Green design
Mumbai
Resilience
Sustainability
Urban anthropology
Urban design
Urban ecology
Urban political ecology
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. City Ascending, City Imploding
  • 2. The Integrated Subject
  • 3. Ecology in Practice: Environmental Architecture as Good Design
  • 4. Rectifying Failure: Imagining the New City and the Power to Create It
  • 5. More than Human Nature and the Open Space Predicament
  • 6. Consciousness and Indian-ness: Making Design "Good"
  • 7. A Vocation in Waiting: Ecology in Practice
  • 8. Soldiering Sustainability
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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