Architecture and Social Sustainability : Understanding the New Paradigm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staub, Alexandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Built environment.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large. Essential reading for architects and urban designers, as well as educators and students incorporating social sustainability as a foundational design concept.

Contents:

Introduction Alexandra Staub Part 1. Alexandra Staub 1.1 Historical Context: The Professionalization of Architecture and Urban Design 1.2 Ethical Practice: Involving Stakeholders in Shaping the Built Environment 1.3 Architecture and the Ethics of Sustainability 1.4 Shifting Our Theoretical Thinking Part 2. 2.1 Design on the Side of Transformational Change: The Destination Design School and Georgia's Black Belt Interview with Euneika Rogers-Sipp 2.2 Framing the Commons: Starting Small Yang Yang, Gus Wendel, and Claire Nelischer 2.3 Topographies of Sustainability in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward Anna Livia Brand 2.4 Market Publics in Urban Africa: Reading Self-Organized Spaces of Exchanges and Material Flows at Onitsha Markets in Nigeria Chukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka 2.5 Taking Matters into Their Own Hands: The Vauban Housing Community (1993-2003), Ekostaden Augustenborg (1998-2002), and Marmalade Lane Co-Housing (2006-2018) Alexandra Staub 2.6 Community Engagement in Low-Income Housing in Brazil: A Pathway to Social Sustainability Clarissa Albrecht, Maristela Siolari, Hung Luong, and Esther Goldberg Karfunkelstein Lima 2.7 Building Thousands of Communities, Not Millions of Homes: A Participatory Approach Toward Transforming Informal Settlements in India Sandhya Naidu Janardhan and Sandra Alexander 2.8 Participatory Design Processes in Architecture Interview with Susanne Hofmann 2.9 The Baupiloten: Creating Participatory and Socially Sustainable Architecture Susanne Hofmann 2.10 "For Space" in Healthcare Co-Design: Relational Thinking, Ontological Design, and Sustainable Futuring Sara Donetto.

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