| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface i; Abstract iii; Acknowledgements v; Table of Contents; List of Figures ix; Introduction 1; Part I The Concept of Sustainability; Chapter 1 Un-sustainable development: an ill-posed question or well-defined problem 7; 1.1 The industrial development pattern for the modernisation 7; 1.2 Negative impacts of the industrial development 11; 1.3 A contemporary case of China's industrial modernisation 22; 1.4 A well-defined problem: the industrial development pattern is unsustainable 26; 1.5 Global campaign for sustainable development 27 |
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1.6 An integrated proposition of sustainable development 34Chapter 2 Sustainable design in the built environment 39; 2.1 Critical discourses on modernism design in the Industrial Age 40; 2.2 A new worldview of the Post-Modernism: from simplicity to complexity 54; 2.3 Contemporary campaign for sustainable design 60; 2.4 A paradigm of nature for sustainable design 70; 2.5 Ecological design for sustainable environment 78; Part II The Framework of Open Systems Evolution; Chapter 3 The model of open systems evolution 103; 3.1 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 104; 3.2 The concept of entropy 119 |
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3.3 Universal generality of open systems evolution 1403.4 Complexity of open systems evolution 154; 3.5 Comparison of open systems evolution and Darwinism evolution 160; 3.6 Implication: a Post-Modernism world-view and a Post-Industrial pattern 165; Part III The Application of Open Systems Evolution to Sustainability; Chapter 4 An intelligent model for sustainable design in open systems evolution 171; 4.1 A scientific framework for sustainable design 172; 4.2 Intelligent design in the model open systems evolution 173; 4.3 Conceptual configuration of intelligent sustainable design 175 |
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4.4 Parametric design of intelligent sustainable design 1864.5 Implications of open systems evolution in sustainable design 190; 4.6 Conclusion 193; Glossary 197; Bibliography 205; Index 219; Appendix. An Alternative Diagram of Transitional Phases of Open Systems Evolution 221 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Environmental aspects.
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Climatic changes.
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Housing -- Environmental aspects.
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Industrialization.
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Sustainable urban development.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3035102600 (electronic bk.) |
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9783035102604 (electronic bk.) |
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