Gray World, Green Heart: Technology, Nature, and Sustainable Landscape - Couverture rigide

Thayer, Robert L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 047157273X ISBN 13 : 9780471572732

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Going beyond the techniques and technology of sustainability, this study aims to provide a theoretical framework for sustainable design within broader cultural and artistic trends. The book examines the conflict between technology and nature in the industrialized world. It describes three basic forces: topophilia (love of the land); technophilia (love and dependence on technology); and technophobia (fear of the side-effects of technology); plus their interplay in the environment. The author describes how the conflict of these forces has created the current environmental crisis, and offers the methodology of sustainable design as a solution to various problems.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

1994 WINNER PRESIDENT′S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE American Society of Landscape Architects Gray World, Green Heart

"This book is about our common landscape surroundings national, regional, community, and personal our technological dependence, and our essential bond with the Earth, and with the changing meanings and values we are assigning these realms. It is also about hope and action hope that we can develop a new vocabulary to make our immediate landscapes not only symbolic of a solution, but part of the actual solution itself." Robert L. Thayer, Jr.

"I was knocked out by this book. It′s the first book about the twenty–first century landscape of the United States. It′s certainly the first book by a landscape architect that people from many other disciplines are going to read and be moved by, cultural geographers and urbanists and others." Tony Hiss, author The Experience of Place

". . . in a different league than what most landscape architects write. This is the kind of book that will filter down it will take a long time, but it will eventually have an impact. It articulates issues in a way that we can take action on them." Randy Hester, ASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture University of California, Berkeley

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines the conflict between technology and nature in the industrialized world. It describes three basic forces: topophilia (love of the land), technophilia (love and dependence on technology) and technophobia (fear of the side–effects of technology) and their interplay in the environment. It describes how the conflict of these forces has created the current environmental crisis and makes a powerful case for sustainable design as a solution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 047157273X
• ISBN 13: 9780471572732
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 370
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible