Main Title |
Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Island Press, |
Year Published |
1999 |
OCLC Number |
40830078 |
ISBN |
1559637013 9781559637015 1559637021 9781559637022 |
Subjects |
Real estate development--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Construction industry--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Architecture--Environmental aspects ;
City planning--Environmental aspects ;
Gebouwde omgeving--gtt ;
Duurzame ontwikkeling--gtt
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EKBM |
HD255.R47 1999 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
06/22/2007 |
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Collation |
xvi, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert -- Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stephen R. Kellert -- Environmental ethics / Sarah van Gelder -- Uneconomic growth and the built environment / Herman E. Daly -- Introduction to renewable energy technologies / Stephen J. Strong -- Environmentally responsible building materials selection / Nadav Malin -- Ecological design, living machines, and the purification of waters / John Todd -- Landscape: source of life or liability / John Tillman Lyle -- Construction and demolition waste / Peter Yost -- Building values / Gail A. Lindsey -- Architecture as pedagogy / David Orr -- Biourbanism and sustainable urban planning / Daniel Williams -- Creating greener communities through conservation subdivision design / Randall Arendt -- Environmentally superior buildings from birth to death / Thomas E. Graedel -- Environmental performance of buildings / Raymond J. Cole -- The Chicago Brownfields initiative / William C. Trumbull -- Sustainable new town and industrial ecology / Ernest A. Lowe. |