Ethics and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415238786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str.

Warwick Fox

Opis

How we construct and live in our built environments is of vital importance to our future. Much has been written on ethics in the natural environment, yet the built environment has, arguably been neglected. Ethics and the Built Environment aims to fill this gap. International contributors debate building ethics in all its forms and propose agendas for future development. The book should be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and readers with a general interest in ethics.

Recenzje

'If you are an architect, structural engineer, urban planner or are in any other way professionally involved in the built environment, or if you are an environmental ethicist who wants to broaden your vision to include the built environment, buy this book. If you're not, buy it for someone who is.' - Environmental Ethics

Spis treści

Introduction, Warwick Fox; Part 1 The Green Imperative–and Its Vicissitudes; Part 2 Greening Urban Society, Herbert Girardet; Part 3 Building Ethics into the Built Environment, John Whitelegg; Part 4 Green Building, Tom Woolley; Part 5 Building, Global Warming and Ethics, Terry Williamson and , Antony Radford; Part 6 Contested Constructions, Simon Guy and , Graham Farmer; Part 7 Building with Greater Sensitivity to People(s) and Places; Part 8 Social Inclusion and the Sustainable City, Roger Talbot and , Gian Carlo Magnoli; Part 9 Transformative Architecture, Bob Fowles; Part 10 Ethics and Vernacular Architecture, Paul Oliver; Part 11 Ethical Building in the Everyday Environment, Christopher Day; Part 12 Can ‘spirit of Place’ Be a Guide to Ethical Building?, Isis Brook; Part 13 Steps towards a Theory of the Ethics of the Built Environment; Part 14 The Conceptual Basis of Building Ethics, Mustafa Pultar; Part 15 Howto Think about the Ethics of Architecture, Saul Fisher; Part 16 The Taj Mahal and the Spider’s Web, Keekok Lee; Part 17 Ethical Arguments about the Aesthetics of Architecture, Nigel Taylor; Part 18 Towards an Ethics (or at Least a Value Theory) of the Built Environment, Warwick Fox; Part 19 Conclusion, Warwick Fox;

O autorze

Warwick Fox is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of Toward a Transpersonal Ecology, 1995.