Saving the Planet by Design: Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis

ISBN-13: 9780415685818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Ken Yeang

Opis

Can we save the planet by design? – for a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it.

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  1. Reinventing the human-made world to address the sustainability equation  2. Redefining design to include the ecological sciences: The principle of ecocentricity  3. Reinventing the built environment by 'ecomimicry'  4. Ecological Design as the biointegration of a set of 'infrastructures': The 'quatrobrid' constructed ecosystem  5. Nature-based infrastructure - Earth's 'life support system'  6. Hydrological infrastructure  7. Technological infrastructure  8. Anthropocentric infrastructure  9. Being 'at one' with Nature  Glossary  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ken Yeang is an architect, planner and ecologist, best known for his signature ecoarchitecture and ecomasterplans, which are differentiated from other green architects by an authentic ecology-based approach, and by their distinctive green aesthetics, performance and biodiversity, beyond conventional rating systems. He was trained at the Architectural Association School in the UK. He is a pioneer in the field of green design, starting from his doctorate in the 1970s at Cambridge University on ecological design and planning.