Living architecture, living cities : soul-nourishing sustainability / Christopher Day and Julie Gwilliam.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020Description: xvii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138594807 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9781138594821 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 720.1/9 23
- NA2540 .D33 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The environmental crisis : ecological or experiential? -- Anticipating coming unknowns -- Environmental impacts -- Perceived reality : sensory experience -- Soul and spirit nourishment -- Placemaking for people -- Place : identity, continuity and integrity -- Design for community -- Getting around cities -- Connectivity -- Use, space and life -- Design for security -- Settlement form, space and life -- Design processes : how, by whom, how fast? -- Economic vigour as process-driver and shaper -- The primary change-driver : money -- Sustainability and economics -- Future climate : future issues -- Design with the elements -- Ecological design : energy aspects -- Cyclic systems -- Habitat -- Bio-climatic placemaking -- Design for demanding climates -- Everything change : future-proofing -- Material applications : eco-towns, eco-projects and eco-regeneration -- New situation : new approaches -- Sustainability or sustenance?
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