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Ecologies design : transforming architecture, landscape, and urbanism / edited by Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly and Mark Southcombe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in sustainable urbanism.
- Routledge research in sustainable urbanism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Environmental aspects.
- City planning.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Summary:
- Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both biological and social, in multi-disciplinary spatial design contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics and professionals within ecology and design.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: towards an ecologies design practice
- Part 1 Biological ecologies design and regeneration
- 2 Introduction: a shifting paradigm in ecologically focused design
- 3 Engaging with life: the developmental practice of regenerative development and design
- 4 Designing for living environments using regenerative development: a case study of The Paddock
- 5 The paradox of metrics: setting goals for regenerative design and development
- 6 Ecological design as the biointegration of a set of 'infrastructures': the 'quatrobrid' constructed ecosystem
- 7 Creating and restoring urban ecologies: case studies in China
- 8 Towards wildlife-supportive green space design in metropolitan areas: lessons from an experimental study
- 9 The new design with nature
- 10 Biomimicry: an opportunity for buildings to relate to place
- 11 The emergence of biophilic design and planning: re-envisioning cities and city life
- Part 2 Documenting social ecologies
- 12 Introduction: how to document urban/landscape assemblages
- 13 City boids: diagramming molecular urbanism
- 14 Why would we spend time drawing with people doing their washing in a Chinese village?
- 15 Object-led interview: documenting geographical ideas
- 16 Mapping informal settlements: a process for action
- 17 Ethnographic drawings and the benefits of using a sketchbook for fieldwork
- 18 A landscape anthropology of green in Bahrain
- 19 Valparaiso Publico: a graphic inventory of urban spaces in a Chilean city
- 20 Being with Hellersdorf: performative counter-mapping as a reflexive practice between architecture and anthropology
- 21 The happy city: an actor-network-theory manifesto.
- 22 The aesthetics of documenting urban and landscape assemblages
- Part 3 Ecologies design practices
- 23 Introduction: on the need for and potentials of ecological design practice
- 24 Indigenous ecological design
- 25 Ngāi Tūhoe's Te Kura Whare: our living building
- 26 Design in relationship with an ecological entity
- 27 On the rise: a coastal planning strategy for adaptation in response to climate change
- 28 There are no sustainable buildings without sustainable people
- 29 Labour, ecology, and architecture
- 30 Integrating design teaching and practices
- 31 Stranded assets
- 32 (Hybrid) architecture in and over time
- 33 Conclusion: a call to ecologies design action
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-27990-6
- 1-000-06651-7
- 9780429279904
- OCLC:
- 1162181709
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