Building green : environmental architects and the struggle for sustainability in Mumbai /

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The author explored 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, by examining the training and experience of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rademacher, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Architects.
Architecture > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable architecture.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
India > Mumbai.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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