Dimensions of sustainability : architecture form, technology, environment, culture

Title: Dimensions of sustainability : architecture form, technology, environment, culture /
Publisher: London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1998.
Online access: Available on WWW
Other Author(s): Scott, Andrew.

ISBN/ISSN: 0419236201
Description: x, 147 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131) and index.


Table of contents: Foreword / Nazli Choucri
Introduction: A Time for Change and Innovation / Andrew Scott
Dematerialization, Demobilization and Adaptation / William J. Mitchell
Fitness, The Evolutionary Imperative / Ian McHarg
Buildings as Engines for Environmental Restoration / Bill Browning
The Evolution of a Naturally Conditioned Building Type / Alan Short
Declaration of Interdependence / William McDonough
The Need and Drive for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design / Guy Battle and Christopher McCarthy
Concept to Demolition: An Integrated Approach to Sustainability / David Richards
Architecture Revisited: On Listening to Buildings / Charles C. Benton
Addressing the Big Building Crisis in Sustainability: Communities, Infrastructures, and Indoor Environments / Vivian Loftness
Comment: Questioning the Stand-Alone Building / Ellen Dunham-Jones
The Micro Climate Envelope / Gilles Perraudin
The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered / Ken Yeang.
Ecology in Architecture / Spencer de Grey
Afterword: Dwelling with the Environment / Roger Stonehouse.
Subject(s): Architecture --Environmental innovations.
Architecture --Technological innovations.
Architecture, Modern --20th century.

Location: Access electronically
Call Number: netLibrary

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 720.47 D582