Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138594821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 448 str.

Christopher Day; Julie Gwilliam

Opis

Christopher Day’s philosophy will continue to inspire students with an interest in sustainable architecture, urban planning, and related fields.

Spis treści

PART 1: LIFE-SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENT: METHOD OR APPROACH?  1. The environmental crisis: ecological or experiential?  2. Anticipating coming unknowns  3. Environmental impacts  PART 2: EXPERIENTIAL ENVIRONMENT  4. Perceived reality: sensory experience  5. Soul and spirit nourishment  PART 3: PLACE: THE SETTING FOR EVERYDAY LIFE  6. Placemaking for people  7. Place: identity, continuity and integrity  8. Design for community  9. Getting around cities  10. Connectivity  11. Use, space and life  12. Design for security  PART 4: PROCESSES, DRIVERS AND OUTCOMES  13. Settlement form, space and life  14. Design processes: how, by whom, how fast?  15. Economic vigour as process-driver and shaper  16. The primary change-driver: money  17. Sustainability and economics  PART 5: LIVING WITH A CHANGING WORLD  18. Future climate: future issues  19. Design with the elements  20. Ecological design: energy aspects  21. Cyclic systems  22. Habitat  23. Bio-climatic placemaking  24. Design for demanding climates  25. Everything change: future-proofing  26. Material applications: eco-towns, eco-projects and eco-regeneration  27. New situation: new approaches  28. Sustainability or sustenance?  Illustration credits  Index