Ethics and the built environment / edited by Warwick Fox.
Material type: TextSeries: Professional ethicsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415238773
- 9780415238779
- 0415238781
- 9780415238786
- 720.47 21
- NA2542.35 .E88 2000
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.47 ETH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A210918B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ethics and the Built Environment -- Part 1. The Green Imperative - and its Vicissitudes -- 1. Greening Urban Society -- 2. Building Ethics into the Built Environment -- 3. Green Building: Establishing Principles -- 4. Building, Global Warming and Ethics -- 5. Contested Constructions: The Competing Logics of Green Buildings and Ethics -- Part 2. Building with Greater Sensitivity to People(s) and Places -- 6. Social Inclusion and the Sustainable City -- 7. Transformative Architecture: A Synthesis of Ecological and Participitory Design -- 8. Ethics and Vernacular Architecture -- 9. Ethical Building in the Everyday Environment: A Multi-Layer Approach to Building and Place Design -- 10. Can "Spirit of Place" Be a Guide to Ethical Building -- Part 3. Steps Toward a Theory (or Theories) of the Ethics of the Built -- 11. The Conceptual Basis of Building Ethics -- 12. How to Think about the Ethics of Architecture -- 13. The Taj Mahal and the Spider's Web -- 14. Ethical Arguments about the Aesthetics of Architecture -- 15. Towards an Ethics (or at Least a Value Theory) of the Built Environment -- Conclusion: Toward an Agenda for the Ethics of the Built Environment.
This text focuses on the built environment rather than the natural environment. It is aimed at architects, students of building design, environmentalists, and politicians.
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