| Description |
x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Contributors. -- Preface. -- Overview And Background. -- The Built Environment (P. Knox P. Ozolins). -- The Political Economy of the Built Environment Olpadwala). -- Political Economic Theory and the Built Environment (R. King). -- The Design Profession (D. Cuff). -- A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Designer's Role: Technician, Artist and Cultivator? (L. Groat). -- Challenge and Response: Architecture and Urban Change (P. Knox P. Ozolins). -- Analysis. -- Information Technology (W. Mitchell). -- Building Ecology: Place, People, and Pulse (S. Van der Ryn). -- Case Study: Real Goods (S. van der Ryn). -- Ethics and the Built Environment (G. Rockcastle). -- The Postmodern Built Environment (N. Ellin). -- Utopia versus Dystopia: Contradictory Images of the City (J. Goss). -- Public Space in the City (A. Madanipour). -- Case Study: Old San Juan, Puerto Rico (T. L?pez-Pumarejo). -- Urbanization and Society (S. Musterd M. Langemeijer). -- Third World Urban Development (N. Teymur). -- The Cinematic City (J. Goss). -- People and the Built Environment (S. Mazumdar). -- Design And Planning. -- The Nature of Design and Planning (D. Grant). -- Utopias (R. Freestone). -- Design and Planning at the Intersection of Politics and the Environment (R. Dyck). -- Aesthetics and the Built Environment (B. Cold). -- The Design Professional in Service to the Community (S. Piedmont-Palladino). -- Exploration and Expression (R. Dorgan). -- Modernism and the Problem of Continuity (D. Rattner). -- Case Study: The Jewish Museum (D. Rattner). -- The Challenge of Affordable Housing and Sustainability (R. Burnham). -- Case Study: The Architect and Self-help Housing in Community-based Settlements (R. Burnham). -- Security by Design (D. Zahm). -- The Architecture of Empowerment (I. Serageldin). -- Public and Environmental Art (M. Miles). -- Production. -- The Building Industry and the Building Process (S. Gruneberg). -- Regulation and Control (J. Punter). -- The Design Professions and the Law (R. Greenstreet). -- Technology and Process (C. Abel). -- Environmental Management in Project Design (C. Pilvang). -- The Impact of Global Business Issues on Design and Construction (R. Flanagan). -- Index |
| Summary |
Brings together many of the world's leading names from the UK, USA, Europe, and Asia. It points to the experience of others from which we can learn. It's objective is to introduce the range of issues involved in the analysis, design and production of the built environment, emphasizing the interaction between these issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architectural practice -- Social aspects.
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Architectural practice.
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects.
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| Author |
Knox, Paul L.
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Ozolins, Peter.
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| LC no. |
00027005 |
| ISBN |
0471985155 |
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0471985163 (paperback) |
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