Dimensions of sustainability : architecture form, technology, environment, culture / [edited by Andrew Scott]. - x, 147 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 131) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Time for Change and Innovation -- Dematerialization, Demobilization and Adaptation -- Fitness, The Evolutionary Imperative -- Buildings as Engines for Environmental Restoration -- The Evolution of a Naturally Conditioned Building Type -- Declaration of Interdependence -- The Need and Drive for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design -- Concept to Demolition: An Integrated Approach to Sustainability -- Architecture Revisited: On Listening to Buildings -- Addressing the Big Building Crisis in Sustainability: Communities, Infrastructures, and Indoor Environments -- Comment: Questioning the Stand-Alone Building -- The Micro Climate Envelope -- The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered -- Ecology in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling with the Environment -- Photographs: who's who -- Image credits -- Index.

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Architecture--Environmental aspects
Architecture--Technological innovations
Architecture, Modern--20th century

NA2542.35 / .D54 1998

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