Sustainable architecture and design Books

Book SynopsisOn the pioneering ecological urban strategies of a Spanish public consortium BCNecologia (the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona) is a public consortium consisting of the City Council of Barcelona, the Municipal Council and Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Barcelona Provincial Council. BCNecologia has played a key role in defining a new urban model for Barcelona—a model that has placed the city at the forefront of worldwide urban transformations—by designing a superblock and orthogonal bus network strategy for the Catalan capital. BCNecologia: 20 years of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona looks back at over 100 projects carried out by the Agency in cities across the world. These studies are presented through a tree with five themed branches that describe various sustainability indicators, superblock-based urban regeneration plans, new mobility and public space planning models, and environmental and circular economy-oriented proposals.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive report on the topic of organizational innovation and sustainability of urban regeneration from the public manager's perspective. Starting from a rich set of case studies on urban regeneration from the region of Apulia, in Italy, it develops a framework for measuring their sustainability performance. It proposes the use of indicators related to different aspects of the urban regeneration process, including the participations of stakeholders; land use and buildings; economy and jobs; transportation; environmental pollution; energy use; waste management; as well as open spaces and wildlife. This book offers extensive information to graduate students and researchers, and to authorities, developers, investors and stakeholders alike, involved in the design, planning and management, and sustainable development of urban spaces. It is expected to foster a better understanding of the level of organizational innovation and sustainability of urban regeneration projects and the role of governing bodies in their implementation.Table of ContentsUrban regeneration and sustainability.- Area-based urban regeneration.- Culture as driver of urban regeneration: the role of organisational aesthetics from design to social innovation model.- The determinants of sustainability of urban regeneration. An empirical analysis in the Apulian context.

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Book SynopsisSeepage analysis of soil nail reinforced embankment resting on soft soil.- Application Of Waste Plastic in Alluvial Soil Stabilisation for A Sustainable Pavement Construction.- Innovative Approaches to Soil Slope Design with Soil Nailing Technology.- An Evaluation of The Compaction Characteristics of a South African Silty Sand Improved by Waste Plastic Fibres.- Influence of Vertical Vibration on Geogrid Reinforced Soil.- Stability Of Mine Overburden Dump Slope Considering Vegetation Impact.- Assessment of Fly Ash Impact on Soil Water Retention, using an Arduino-Based monitoring system.- Seismic Analysis of Power Transmission Tower-Line System.- Evaluating Stone Dust as a Sustainable Alternative to Sand in Concrete.- Experimental Investigation and Comparative Analysis of Properties of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Considering Different Mixing Approaches.- Properties of Concrete Utilizing Recycled Concrete Fine Powder and Treated Recycled Concrete Aggregate: An Experimental Investigation.- Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Concrete Containing Treated Coarse Aggregates obtained from Hard Rock of Open Coal Mine Dump.- Performance measurement of a landfill mining equipment: A case study.- Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Climate Using LST, NDVI, FISA, and LULC: A 20-Year Case Study of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (2004-2024).- Physico-Chemical Assessment of Water Quality in the Open Cast Coal Mining Region of Bhurkunda, Ramgarh, Jharkhand, India.- Comprehensive Assessment and Prediction of Air Quality Trends Using Arima Model.- Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management: Addressing Generation, Composition, And Environmental Concerns.- Optimum Replacement of Coarse Aggregates with E-Waste Ceramics for a Rigid Pavement.- Quantitative lifecycle sustainability assessment of asphalt pavement.- Design of circular overhead water tank using staad.pro Software.

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Book SynopsisForeword.- Preface.- Part I Fundamentals of Smart Cities.- Chapter 1 The Evolution of Smart City Development.- Chapter 2 Core Technologies for Next-Generation Smart Cities.- Chapter 3 Cloud-Edge-Device Collaboration and Application Innovation in Smart Digital Cities.- Part II Applications of Smart Cities.- Chapter 4 Applications of Digital Infrastructure.- Chapter 5 Sector-Specific Applications in Smart Cities.- Chapter 6 Scalable Implementation of Smart City Solutions.- Part III Future Outlook for Smart and Digital Cities.- Chapter 7 Foundational Perspectives and Trends.- Chapter 8 Foresight into Emerging Applications.-  Chapter 9 Technological Frontiers and Innovation Directions.

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Book SynopsisThis new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and peopleâs health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the âœstate-of-the-artâ and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how fungal mycelium can support the construction of habitats for future human missions to Mars.Addressing the challenge of transporting building materials from Earth, presented research proposes a bio-fabrication strategy based on two principles: combining mycelium with Martian regolith to maximise local resources, and employing self-assembly to reduce energy and operational demands. Through biological experiments and architectural prototyping, the research develops low-biomass mycelium-regolith composites and investigates how these materials can be organised through architecture (jamming) and biological (bio-welding) processes to form structural habitation systems. An iterative design framework integrates parametric modelling with hands-on fabrication, showing how materials can shift from passive components to active agents capable of shaping form, structure, and adaptation in extreme environments.The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners and students in space architecture, biodesign, and emerging construction technologies, as well as readers interested in living materials and space exploration.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on spearheading the integration of maintainability and sustainable facility management right from the planning & design stage. It introduces the concept of green maintainability and discusses considerations to maximise the performance; resource and energy efficiency, while minimising a facility's total life cycle cost; embodied energy; carbon emission; environmental impact and consumption of matter/energy throughout its life cycle by 'doing it right the first time'.In this edition, the latest relevant codes of practices, regulations and standards are included. All chapters have been brought up to date to include contemporary sustainability concerns, such as sustainability design, construction and materials, and maintainability of green features. A new chapter on 'Common Areas' has been added. Every chapter is summarised with an easy-to-use table to make the book more practical and user-friendly.Maintainability of Facilities is written for practitioners and students in architecture, engineering, building, real estate, construction, project management, quantity and building surveying and facilities management.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on spearheading the integration of maintainability and sustainable facility management right from the planning & design stage. It introduces the concept of green maintainability and discusses considerations to maximise the performance; resource and energy efficiency, while minimising a facility's total life cycle cost; embodied energy; carbon emission; environmental impact and consumption of matter/energy throughout its life cycle by 'doing it right the first time'.In this edition, the latest relevant codes of practices, regulations and standards are included. All chapters have been brought up to date to include contemporary sustainability concerns, such as sustainability design, construction and materials, and maintainability of green features. A new chapter on 'Common Areas' has been added. Every chapter is summarised with an easy-to-use table to make the book more practical and user-friendly.Maintainability of Facilities is written for practitioners and students in architecture, engineering, building, real estate, construction, project management, quantity and building surveying and facilities management.

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Book SynopsisIn architecture, a facade is the skin of a building. Eco-Friendly Building Facade demonstrates just how important this 'skin' is by illustrating its impact on energy efficiency. Sunlight, ventilation, low energy, noise minimisation, rainwater harvest, prefabricated components, flexibility, etc., all the environmental elements are taken into consideration in the design process and are illustrated here with sufficiently detailed images, drawings and articles.

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Book SynopsisA presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices. What is known as living off the grid is possible, and Sustainable presents forty-five houses that demonstrate how architects have implemented sustainable design concepts around the world. These projects show us what time-tested vernacular design principles—including local materials, natural ventilation strategies, and earth shelter construction—can teach us, as well as how the latest cutting-edge technologies—such as indoor farming and living walls made of plant material—can make truly sustainable design possible. The variety and ingenuity of the

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Book SynopsisFor those who crave the tranquility of nature, fifty houses selected from around the world with the most ecologically sustainable and innovative breakthroughs in architecture and design.Seeking the perfect escape from city life and congestion? This book is filled with environmentally low-impact homes and retreats using eco-friendly materials and technology that reduce the carbon footprint and lower its energy needs, all built within the past ten years. The broadening interest in back to nature and homesteading plays a role, and many new structures are examples of sustainability that are in touch with nature, far from the madding crowd but not only for the select few.International in scope, the book is an A to Z of ideas for the twenty-first century, from a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand, all designed to have minimal architectural traces--made with local materials that harmonize with the surrounding environment. An outdoor care retreat outs

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Book SynopsisThis book presents contributions on teaching innovation in university architecture and building engineering studies. The chapters of the book represent an advance in the current knowledge of teaching innovation techniques in university architecture and building engineering studies.

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.

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Book SynopsisThe projects presented in this book are excellent examples of how the many facets of sustainability can be applied in the field of architecture. By using the term “green” to cover them the author has attempted to highlight not only the most quantifiable factors (such as optimal energy efficiency values), but also other less tangible ones (such as architecture’s respectful and harmonious integration with the natural environment and social sustainability) which are closely linked to environmental sustainability.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whether you are new to sustainability as a counterpart to historic preservation or a seasoned professional who knows LEED backward and forward, there is much inspiration to be found in Building Reuse." * Washington Trust for Historic Preservation *

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles for innovative and sustainable neighbourhood design. It is useful to students and practitioners of urban design, planning, and urban systems and architecture studios focused on sustainable residential development.Table of Contents1. Designing Sustainable Environments 2. Planning with Nature 3. Moving in Neighbourhoods 4. Mixing Land Uses and Sense of Place 5. Public Open Spaces 6. Livable Denser Places 7. Weaving Old and New 8. Edible Landscapes and Landscaping 9. Alternative Energy, District Heating, and Waste Management 10. Innovative Dwelling Concepts 11. Low Carbon Residences

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Book SynopsisLiliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The author's introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and historical context for the enormous evolution and expansion of adaptive reuse over the past 50 years.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A passionate view of what the author describes as the first conservation community."--Ann Durkin Keating, author of Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide"Thought-provoking and conversation starting. Makes a novel contribution to our understanding of how and why suburbs grow under various sets of circumstances. It's a story worthy of sharing and provides important lessons for communities facing conditions of sprawl. Indeed, the author clearly demonstrates that there are viable alternatives to sprawl."--Thomas J. Vicino, coauthor of Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US"According to political scientist John Scott Watson (University of Illinois at Chicago) in his new book Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community, its developers, George and Vicky Ranney, are 'using the market to preserve and protect the environment from free-market excess'. . . . The question remains: Do conservation communities represent a niche market or a large-scale alternative to conventional suburbia? This book is a great place to start finding out." --Planning

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Book SynopsisTo assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities. It applies a multi-criteria approach using a panel of environmental, economic, social and smart indicators to assess progress and policies in global cities including London, New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, SÃo Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo and many others. Additional attention is given to the issues of climate change, poverty and smart dimensions, with renewable energy and the drivers of urban CO2 emissions playing the central role. This book is abundant with case studies considering strategies, policies and performance of the leading cities, including Trade Review"Since the early 1990s, cities and researchers have made strong efforts to measure urban sustainability. The emerging indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goal 11 on ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ provides clear guidance to governments at different levels to assess progress. This book offers a diverse set of complementary perspectives, which may inspire academia and urban practitioners alike to continue exploring the deeper assessment of urban sustainability." — Raf Tuts, Director, Programme Division, UN-Habitat"An Indian saying states that we do not inherit the planet, but rather we borrow it from our children and generations to come. When we consider that civilization as we know it is 6,000 years old, the detrimental consequences of inhabitation, affluence, and industrialization over the past 200 years cannot be overstated. Sustainable Cities Reimagined is a meticulously researched assessment of all forms of global cities — autonomous cities, megacities, clusters, and city states. It is a much-needed resource in this tsunami of global crises, which includes exploding global population, C02 emissions and climate change, renewable energy resources in the age of peak oil, social inequities and public health, and adequate affordable housing for a burgeoning populace. Analyzing, understanding, and evaluating multi-disciplinary data sets of indicators such as economic, environmental, physical and social is crucial to ensure a sustainable livelihood for future generations. Stanislav Shmelev’s extensive collection of data serves as a benchmark for all who are in a position to affect change that will impacts our communities, our cities, and our Earth home as a whole." — Dhiru Thadani, AIA, APA, FCNU, Board Member, ISOCARP, the author of The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary (2010), co-editor of Leon Krier: The Architecture of Community (2009) and author of Visions of Seaside: Foundations / Evolution / Imagination / Built & Unbuilt Architecture (2013)"This book is based on an extraordinary amount of research. It shows that future-proofing the world's cities is one of humanity's greatest challenges. Now the time has come to create urban systems that are truly compatible with the world's ecosystems on whose integrity human existence ultimately depends." — Herbert Girardet, Member of the Club of Rome, co-founder of the World Future Council, the author of Cities, People, Planet: Urban Development and Climate Change, (2004 and 2008), A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (2009) and Creating Regenerative Cities (2015)"Fabulous collection of data on cities of the World. Successful climate policies are hardly conceivable without using those data!" — Ernst von Weizsäcker, Professor, former Chairman of the Bundestag's Environment Committee and Co-President of the Club of RomeTable of Contents1. Methods and Indicators for Urban Sustainability Assessment 2. Global Urban Sustainability Benchmarking: A Multidimensional Approach for Smart and Sustainable Cities 3. Comparative analysis of indicator-based urban sustainability assessment frameworks 4. Indicator-Based Multi-Criteria Urban Sustainability Assessment Under Varying Policy Priorities 5. Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment for the Cities of the Global South: the PROMETHEE Approach 6. Sustainability assessment of megacities using environmentally extended input-output analysis and network theory: The case of Singapore 7. Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability of Taipei and Almaty 8. Multidimensional Sustainability Benchmarking of the Cities of the Middle East and North Africa 9. City Poverty Indexes: Participatory Approaches to Leave No One Behind 10. Cities and renewable energy 11. How sustainable is smart and how smart is sustainable?

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Book SynopsisDisaster-proof, environmentally friendly housing solutions for a changing climate.Trade Review"Bridgette Meinhold provides her readers an innovative source of information on this type of sustainable design, including green materials, recycling and low-cost construction methods." -- Detail (UK)"A straightforward format and clear illustrations give the book a no-nonsense immediacy that seems appropriate to the subject." -- Architectural Record

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Book SynopsisThe interchange is a new form of transport building which integrates into a single whole various modes of public transport, putting the passenger first (rather than the infrastructure). This book presents design principles for transport interchanges and offers analysis of best practice in the UK and abroad. The author demonstrates how this complex new building type integrates with the city, on the one hand, and with different types of transport on the other. In this integration design in both plan and section are important, as is urban and landscape design. The idea of âinterchangeâ is increasingly relevant as town planners, engineers and architects address the question of sustainable development with its emphasis on energy efficiency, social cohesion, access for the elderly, and urban regeneration.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Concepts, Ideas and Evolution 1. Mobility and the Interchange 2. How the Interchange Evolved Part 2: Design Strategies 3. Strategies for Urban Design 4. Detailed Design Approaches Part 3: Examples from Recent Practice 5. Bus Interchanges 6. Train Interchanges 7. Ferry Interchanges 8. Airport Interchanges Part 4: Conclusions 9. Future Issues. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMichael Zaretsky's Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology and renewable energy systems alone can't solve the problems we face'   John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of VirginiaThe world is currently facing an environmental crisis and as anyone interested in sustainable or zero-energy design knows the design and building industries have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.The Solar Decathlon is an international event in which universities from around the world compete in the design and construction of a one-bedroom, zero-energy house. This book provides an in-depth, yet accessible analysis of the architecture and passive design strategies of the houses in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. These houses are the result of thousands of hours Table of ContentsForeword by John Quale. Introduction Part 1: Drawings and Diagrams Part 2: Comparisons Part 3: Analysis. Conclusion. Endnotes. Image. Citations. Bibliography. Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple viewpoints on the role of the relations between architecture, nature, technology, and culture. A detailed case study of a built project concludes each part to help you translate theory into practice. This holistic approach will allow you to formulate your own theory and to adjust your practice based on your findings. Will you provoke change, design architecture that responds to change, or both?Coedited by an architect and a historian, the book features new essays by Robert Levit, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, Diane Lewis, Andrew Payne, Mark Jarzombek, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Elizabeth Diller, Antoine Picon, and Jorge Silvetti. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Organic Conceits; 1. Design’s New Catechism, Robert Levit; 2. Faculty of Omnipotence, Catherine Ingraham; 3. The Raw and the Cooked, Sylvia Lavin; Case Study: MOS Architects, afterparty, Winner, MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program (2009); Part 2: The Sublime Past; 4. The Nature Parallel, Barry Bergdoll; 5. Next to Nothing, K. Michael Hays; 6. Nature After Mies, Diane Lewis; Case Study: Michael Bell Design, Gefter-Press House, Ghent, NY (2007); Part 3: Sustaining Nature; 7. On Limits, Andrew Payne; 8. Eco-Pop, Mark Jarzombek; 9. Nature, Model of Complexity, Jean-François Chevrier; Case Study: Steven Holl Architects, Sliced Porosity Block/Chengdu project; Part 4: The Nature of Infrastructure; 10. Agri-tecture, Elizabeth Diller; 11. Nature, Infrastructure and Cities, Antoine Picon; Case Study: George L. Legendre, Henderson Waves, Singapore (2008); Part 5: Nature, Unnaturally; 12. Block That Metaphor, Jorge Silvetti; Case Study: Prescott Scott Cohen, Inc., Chevron House, Los Gatos CA (2011); Index.

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Book SynopsisFollowing on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the worldâs leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivates new spatial practices and creates diverse forms of resilient landscapes including and beyond urban agriculture.The notion of the Smartcity is developed through a series of international case studies, some commissioned by government organisations, others speculative and polemic. This second edition has nine new case studies, and additional ecological sustainability studies covering sensitivity, design criteria, and assessments for ecological construction plans. The book concludes with two new essays on the romance of trees and the empowering nature of resilient landscapes.Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-warriors represents a crucial voice in thTable of ContentsPreface 1. Urban Utopias and the Smartcity. From Soil to Table. The Perpetual Motion Machine. The American Dream Redux. Rise of the Eco-warrior. Scenic Positions. Cultivating Community. Resilient Landscapes 2. A Lexicon for the Smartcity 3. Guangming Smartcity China 4. DuSable Park USA 5. Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park China 6. Remembering the Great American Plains USA 7. Nordhavnen Smartcity Denmark 8. Daejeon Urban Renaissance South Korea 9. The Tomato Exchange UK 10. Central Open Space: MAC South Korea 11. The Linear Park China 12. A Workplace in a Garden Ireland 13. Guangming Energy Park China 14. Newark Gateway Project USA 15. The City of a Thousand Lakes China 16. Rifle Range Regeneration Malaysia 17. Dongyi Wan East Waterfront China 18. Brockholes Wetland + Woodland Reserve UK 19. The Green Pension Plan UK 20. Wanmu Orchard Wetland China 21. Romance + Resilience: Landscapes of the imagination 22. Anna Andronova The Grand Paris of Niger: Landscape of hope 23. Carolyn Steel Sitopia – The urban future 24. Project and Reproduction Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis second edition, Smartcities and Eco-warriors: The Ecological Landscapes for Urban Resilience, reflects CJ Lim’s latest research since the original publication, and has six additional case studies, together with a new extensive catalogue of floral and fauna for each landscape and environmental condition. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Urban Utopias and the Smartcity. From Soil to Table. The Perpetual Motion Machine. The American Dream Redux. Rise of the Eco-warrior. Scenic Positions. Cultivating Community. Resilient Landscapes 2. A Lexicon for the Smartcity 3. Guangming Smartcity China 4. DuSable Park USA 5. Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park China 6. Remembering the Great American Plains USA 7. Nordhavnen Smartcity Denmark 8. Daejeon Urban Renaissance South Korea 9. The Tomato Exchange UK 10. Central Open Space: MAC South Korea 11. The Linear Park China 12. A Workplace in a Garden Ireland 13. Guangming Energy Park China 14. Newark Gateway Project USA 15. The City of a Thousand Lakes China 16. Rifle Range Regeneration Malaysia 17. Dongyi Wan East Waterfront China 18. Brockholes Wetland + Woodland Reserve UK 19. The Green Pension Plan UK 20. Wanmu Orchard Wetland China 21. Romance + Resilience: Landscapes of the imagination 22. Anna Andronova The Grand Paris of Niger: Landscape of hope 23. Carolyn Steel Sitopia – The urban future 24. Project and Reproduction Credits Index

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Book SynopsisSuburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more diverse housing choices. Bluefield Housing offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns, through describing and deploying the types of ad-hoc modifications that have been undertaken in the suburbs for decades. Extending green-, brown-, and greyfield definitions, it provides a necessary middle ground between the âdo nothingâ attitude of suburban preservation and the âdo everythingâ approach of knock-down-rebuild regeneration.An adjunct to âmissing middleâ and subdivision densification models, with a focus on co-locating homes on small lots, Bluefield Housing presents a unified design approach to suburban infill: retrofitting original houses, retaining and enhancing landscape and urban tree canopies, and delivTrade Review"At a time where so much of the world is experiencing housing crises, Madigan provides a vision and guide for a much needed departure from Australia’s broken ‘business as usual’ for how we deliver housing. An essential read for architects, planners and developers alike, and anyone who thinks ‘housing’ could do better in supporting a future where we all thrive."Brugh O'Brien, Principal: Future of Home, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation“This book is both a grand vision for a future of housing and practical guide for how to achieve it. There are maps of global potential for transforming single family neighborhoods alongside ideas for how to manage suburban infill essentials such as laundry and garbage. It is an invaluable combination of speculative pragmatism and prosaic invention with tangible relevance for the suburbs of the United States and Canada – a key reference for researchers and practitioners alike.”Michael Piper, University of Toronto"More affordable, more diverse and more delightful housing? Seems like everybody is after it and we need it more than ever, but the inertia of established systems discourages change. This book takes a suite of practical and highly effective design ideas and runs them through a rigorous process addressing financial opportunities, regulations and community attitudes; showing how to move towards ‘win-win' scenarios that deliver more dwellings and retain the character of the cities and suburbs we love. A timely and valuable contribution to the housing debate."Nigel Bertram, Professor of Architecture, Monash University and Director, NMBW Architecture Studio“Bluefield Housing reminds us that our suburbs are not immutable, but ever-changing and malleable. It shows us why they can - and should be - altered and added to. This is design research at its best - useful, transferable, propositional – advocating a compelling alternative to planning metrics. Madigan’s incisive work ranges from acute observation and analysis to lucid propositions showing the latent capacity of suburban form to accommodate more – more trees, open space, connections, diversity, people: more good stuff.”Jennie Officer, Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Western Australia, and Director, Officer Woods Architects“In the face of dynamic global demographics we urgently need imaginative, land-efficient, habitat-protective, cost-effective housing solutions. Damian’s concept of "Bluefield Housing” is an exciting proposition and, in truth, common sense."Naomi Cleaver, designer, author and TV presenterTable of ContentsPart 1 1. Being ‘Suburban’ 2. An Appetite for New Forms of Suburban Living 3. On Character and ‘Fitting In’ 4. Suburban Anomalies and Operations: catalogues of infill opportunities Part 2 5. From Green to Blue: a new definition for suburban infill 6. The Seven Principles of Bluefield Housing 7. Lot-level Design Tactics 8. Design for Liveability and Sustainability Part 3 9. From Top-down to Bottom-up: a deployable model 10. Single Allotments 11. Double Allotments 12. Multiple Allotments Part 4 13. A New Normal: leveraging established conditions 14. Carrots and Sticks: incentivising bluefield housing 15. Financing, Operating, and Selling Bluefield Housing 16. Zoning Laws: enabling bluefield housing Part 5 17. The Value of the Diagram and Studies in Rooms 18. Backgrounding Design Studies: a ‘designerly’ way of seeing 19. Generative Design Studies for Bluefield Housing 20. Housing for Whom? – Lessons from the Town Hall Floor

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Book SynopsisFlourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the difference that design and design research can make for people, organisations, and the planet to prosper now and in the future. It offers a range of ideas and techniques through practical examples and ongoing projects showing how applied design research can respond to global challenges. Covering topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired materials, more-than-human design, sustainability, and urban acupuncture, it shares interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design research not just to demonstrate what could be plausible in the near future but also toexplain whTable of ContentsIntroduction: flourish by design: agendas and practices for positive change Part 1: Flourishing together 1. Flourish together 2. Flourishing, design, and the brain 3. Designing more-than-human urban places 4. Why a design attitude matters in a world in flux 5. Flourish(ing) by design? 6. Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? 7. Can designers and AI flourish together? 8. Challenging capitalism through design for commonism 9. How cross-relational design research can foster pandemic recovery 10. Flourishing in joyful discovery: scaffolding new thinking 11. Build together a flourishing world: let’s give a shit and plant seeds Part 2: Flourishing organisations 12. Flourishing organisations 13. What organisations will flourish in the future and why we need a new design culture that is fit for the 22nd century? 14. Flourishing for all: the imperative for design research to go beyond academia 15. The shadow side: why embracing death and decay is essential to flourishing 16. Making design research work by flourishing through disappearance 17. Working at the junction: reconciling numbers and vulnerabilities 18. Public value by design: toward a flourishing design culture in public services 19. What schools do we need? 20. Evolutionary change of organisations and its flourishment over the design paradigms 21. It is time for radical co-design 22. Design after things Part 3: Flourishing in the world 23. Flourishing in the world 24. Making a difference by design 25. Transdisciplinary design: next generation bio-inspired building materials 26. Can design heal a city? 27. The idea of ‘agency’ in design today 28. The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time 29. Just toys? From material sustainability to co-design and degrowth 30. Legacy and sustainability in design research: A global dialogue 31. Falling UP and caring for better 32 Sustainability: designing for a technological utopia or dystopia? Afterword: to flourish or not to flourish by design

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Book SynopsisFlourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the difference that design and design research can make for people, organisations, and the planet to prosper now and in the future. It offers a range of ideas and techniques through practical examples and ongoing projects showing how applied design research can respond to global challenges. Covering topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired materials, more-than-human design, sustainability, and urban acupuncture, it shares interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design research not just to demonstrate what could be plausible in the near future but also toexplain whTable of ContentsIntroduction: flourish by design: agendas and practices for positive change Part 1: Flourishing together 1. Flourish together 2. Flourishing, design, and the brain 3. Designing more-than-human urban places 4. Why a design attitude matters in a world in flux 5. Flourish(ing) by design? 6. Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? 7. Can designers and AI flourish together? 8. Challenging capitalism through design for commonism 9. How cross-relational design research can foster pandemic recovery 10. Flourishing in joyful discovery: scaffolding new thinking 11. Build together a flourishing world: let’s give a shit and plant seeds Part 2: Flourishing organisations 12. Flourishing organisations 13. What organisations will flourish in the future and why we need a new design culture that is fit for the 22nd century? 14. Flourishing for all: the imperative for design research to go beyond academia 15. The shadow side: why embracing death and decay is essential to flourishing 16. Making design research work by flourishing through disappearance 17. Working at the junction: reconciling numbers and vulnerabilities 18. Public value by design: toward a flourishing design culture in public services 19. What schools do we need? 20. Evolutionary change of organisations and its flourishment over the design paradigms 21. It is time for radical co-design 22. Design after things Part 3: Flourishing in the world 23. Flourishing in the world 24. Making a difference by design 25. Transdisciplinary design: next generation bio-inspired building materials 26. Can design heal a city? 27. The idea of ‘agency’ in design today 28. The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time 29. Just toys? From material sustainability to co-design and degrowth 30. Legacy and sustainability in design research: A global dialogue 31. Falling UP and caring for better 32 Sustainability: designing for a technological utopia or dystopia? Afterword: to flourish or not to flourish by design

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Book SynopsisDiscover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects. This indispensable companion to Norbert Lechner''s landmark volume Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, Third Edition completes the author''s mission to cover all topics in the field of sustainable environmental control. It provides knowledge appropriate for the level of complexity needed at the schematic design stage and presents the most up-to-date information available in a concise, logical, accessible manner and arrangement. Although sustainability deals with many issues, those concerning energy and efficiency are the most critical, making an additional goal of this book one of providing architects with the skills and knowledge needed to create buildings that use electricity and water efficiently. Guidelines and rules-of-thumb are provided to help designers make their buildings use less energy, less water, and less of everything else to achieve their primary objTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Electricity – Basic Concepts 1 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2. History of Electricity 2 1.3 The Water Analogy 4 1.4 Ohm’s Law 6 1.5 Types of Electricity 6 1.6 Power Factor 9 1.7 Types of Circuits 11 1.8 Power Generators in Series and Parallel 15 1.9 Voltage Drop 16 1.10 Electrical Power 18 1.11 Electrical Energy 19 1.12 Paying for Electricity 20 1.13 Reduction in Maximum Demand 22 1.14 Transformers 23 1.15 Electricity and Safety 24 1.16 Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) 26 1.17 Conclusion 26 Resources 26 2 Electrical Distribution in Buildings 27 2.1 Introduction 28 2.2 A Brief Historical Perspective 28 2.3 Centralized Electrical Power 30 2.4 Decentralized and Private Sources of Electricity 31 2.5 Electrical Distribution in Small Buildings 32 2.6 Electrical Distribution in Large Buildings 36 2.7 Switches, Fuses, and Circuit Breakers 39 2.8 Conductors 40 2.9 Conduits and Raceways 42 2.10 Office Landscapes 43 2.11 Electrical Safety Systems 47 2.12 Low-Voltage Circuits 50 2.13 Emergency Power 51 2.14 Communication and Building Control Wiring 53 2.15 Electrical Construction Drawings 56 2.16 Lightning Protection 56 2.17 Sustainability 58 2.18 Conclusion 59 Resources 59 3 Plumbing – Water Supply 61 3.1 Introduction 62 3.2 Brief History of Water Supply 63 3.3 Sources of Drinking Water 64 3.4 Water Use 67 3.5 Private Water Supply 68 3.6 Rainwater Harvesting 71 3.7 Water Distribution in Buildings 79 3.8 Water Quality 85 3.9 Water Efficiency 85 3.10 Hot Water 88 3.11 Hot Water Conservation 97 3.12 Conclusion 103 Resources 103 4 Drainage 105 4.1 Introduction 106 4.2 Short History of Sanitary Drainage 106 4.3 Basic Principles of Drainage 114 4.4 Basic Concepts of Plumbing Fixtures 115 4.5 Drainage Piping 116 4.6 Water Closets and Alternatives 121 4.7 Composting Toilets 125 4.8 On-Site Septic Tank Systems 126 4.9 On-Site Aerobic Systems 128 4.10 Special and Innovative Treatment Systems 130 4.11 Constructed Wetlands 131 4.12 Biologic Machines 134 4.13 Graywater Systems 136 4.14 Alternative Community Sewage Systems 139 4.15 Stormwater 141 4.16 Special Drainage Systems 152 4.17 Case Study 153 4.18 Conclusion 155 Resources 155 5 Architectural Acoustics 157 5.1 Introduction 158 5.2 A Short History of Architectural Acoustics 159 5.3 The Physics of Sounds 161 5.4 The Biology of Sounds 170 5.5 Perception of Sound 175 5.6 Sound and Health 179 5.7 Sound-Absorbing Materials 180 5.8 Applications of Sound-Absorbing Materials 182 5.9 Sound Transmission 188 5.10 Design for Low Sound Transmission 189 5.11 Acceptable Noise Levels 194 5.12 Open-Plan Offices 196 5.13 Impact Noise 198 5.14 Mechanical Systems Noise Control 199 5.15 Theaters, Classrooms and Auditoriums 202 5.16 Rules for Drawing Ray Diagrams 205 5.17 Electronic Sound Systems 206 5.18 Noise Outdoors 206 5.19 Conclusion 210 Resources 211 6 Fire Protection 213 6.1 Introduction 214 6.2 A Short History of Fires in Buildings 216 6.3 Fire Principles 221 6.4 Fire Prevention 224 6.5 Passive Fire Protection 225 6.6 Detection 228 6.7 Alarms 229 6.8 Safe Egress 232 6.9 Fire Suppression 235 6.10 Non-Water Fire Suppression Systems 242 6.11 Smoke Control 243 6.12 Fire Codes 249 6.13 Elevators and Fires 250 6.14 Lightning Protection 250 6.15 Conclusion 251 7 Conveyance Systems in Buildings 253 7.1 Introduction 254 7.2 A Short History of the Elevator 254 7.3 Elevator Types 261 7.4 Elevator Design 265 7.5 Escalators 271 7.6 Moving Walkways and Ramps 275 7.7 Vertical Transport and Health 276 7.8 Special Lifts for People 280 7.9 Material Conveying Systems 282 7.10 Conclusion 284 Resources 284 Index 285

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Book SynopsisGiven the ongoing climate and socio-ecological emergencies, it is paramount to support a socially just rethinking of the world we inhabit, which is intrinsically dependent on the health of the earth's systems. This requires a radical transformation of the role of environmental designers in developing propositions, mitigation strategies and advocacy initiatives. This issue ofADexplores the principles behind the Green New Deal and how they apply to the architectural and landscape professions. Whatever form the Green New Deal will take and is taking, it will be materialised through infrastructure, buildings, landscapes and various other constructed forms. The contributors to thisADexamine the theoretical frameworks and design practices within which the protocols of the Green New Deal could be integrated. Initially, such a goal requires a survey of the available design tools and methodologies necessary to achieve a transition to a decarbonised economy in an equitable manner. The articleTable of ContentsAbout the Guest-Editor 5 José Alfredo Ramírez Introduction 6 Designing Landscapes How Policies Shape the World José Alfredo Ramírez Visualising a 12 Transformative Space that Puts People and Climate First Miriam Brett Crises and 20 Contestations The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal Billy Fleming ‘Raising the Stakes 28 for Landscape’ in the Climate Crisis Clara Olóriz Sanjuán Just Transition 36 Rewiring Carbon-Pollutant Landscapes and Labour into a Community Forestry Framework Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera and Yasmina Yehia Dynamic Domains of 44 Antarctica A Design Model of Global Commons in Sync with Planetary Metabolism Daniel Kiss and Swadheet Chaturvedi Take Back the Land 54 Godofredo Enes Pereira, Christina Leigh Geros and Jon Goodbun Making Space for 62 Green Work Julian Siravo Taking Apart 70 Buildings and Systems In Converstaion with Mae Bowley of Re:Purpose Savannah Jane Mah Hutton and Alison Creba The Red Deal 78 Decolonising Climate Action Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió and Danika Cooper Design Perspectives 86 from the Global South The Case of Mexico José Alfredo Ramírez Country-Led 96 Approaches in Land Management and Design Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon Monsoonal Solidarity 104 A Global Approach to Climate Justice Lindsay Bremner Town, Country and Wilderness 112 Planning the Half-Earth Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass and Filip Mesko Towards the Abolition of the Hinterlands 120 Kai Heron and Alex Heffron From Another Perspective 128 A Rapturous Delight in the Natural World Laurie Chetwood Neil Spiller

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive resource for higher education professionals interested in sustainability pedagogy In The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful reference for higher education professionals seeking to embed sustainability in learning and teaching. The book offers a way for higher education institutions to implement sustainability goals in their curricula and provides comprehensive guidance to educators, researchers and practitioners. The authors discuss recent developments in technological innovations, best practices, lessons learned, current challenges, and reflections in the area of sustainability teaching in higher education. They also examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainability education. With contributors from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, medicine, urban design, business, environmental science, and social science, the bTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix List of Contributors xi 1 Sustainable Development: Embedding Sustainability in Higher Education 1Kelum A. A. Gamage and Erandika K. de Silva Part I Transforming the Curriculum – Pedagogy Focused Initiatives 11 2 Activist Learning for Sustainability: A Pedagogy for Change 13Zoe Robinson, Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, and Sarah Briggs 3 Outcome- Based Education Toward Achieving Sustainable Goals in Higher Education 41G. R. Sinha, Nanda Gunawardhana, and Chih- Peng Fan 4 Transforming Ourselves to Transform Societies: Cultivating Virtue in Higher Education for Sustainability 59Amparo Merino and Estela Díaz 5 Factors that Hinder the Implementation of Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions 79David Slim Zepeda Quintana, Javier Esquer, and Nora Munguía 6 Developing Stakeholder Agency in Higher Education Sustainability Initiatives: Insights from a Change Laboratory Research Intervention 99John Scahill and Brett Bligh Copyrighted Material 7 Technology- Enhanced Education: Improving Students’ Learning Experience in the Higher Education Context 133Mengting Yu 8 Sustainability Assessment Tools in Higher Education Institutions: Comprehensive Analysis of the Indicators and Outlook 153M. Mapar, P. Bacelar-Nicolau, and S. Caeiro 9 COVID- 19 Disruptions to SDG 4 in Higher Education Institutions 187Luis Velazquez Part II Transforming the Curriculum – Discipline- Specific Initiatives 205 10 Integrating Harmonious Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum: Addressing the Sustainability Grand Challenge 207David A. Kirby, Iman El- Kaffass, and Felicity Healey- Benson 11 Sustaining Place Transformations in Urban Design Education: Learning and Teaching Urban Density, Mix, Access, Public/Private Interface, and Type 221Hesam Kamalipour and Nastaran Peimani 12 Sustainability of Innovations in Health Professions Education 237Gominda Ponnamperuma, Asela Olupeliyawa, Madawa Chandratilake, and Kosala Marambe 13 Sustainability in Energy Systems Analysis and Design 257J. McKellar, H. Gaber, and D. Hoornweg Part III Global Trends – Country Specific Initiatives 277 14 Sustainability Teaching in Higher Education and Universities in Spain 279Sergio Nogales Delgado, Silvia Román Suero, and Beatriz Ledesma Cano 15 Sustainability in Higher Education in Egypt: Perception, Challenges, and Way Forward 297Marwa Biltagy 16 Youth Communicators as an Engine for Sustainable Development: A Case Study for Achieving SDGs in Remote Higher Education Institutions 317Saira Ahmed, Amir Qayyum, Azza Malik, and Hassan Ali 17 Streamlining Higher Education in the Maldives: Issues and Challenges 333Abdul Hannan Waheed 18 Embedding Sustainability into the Education Process in the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, SUA in Nitra, Slovakia 353Tatiana Kaletová, Ivana Mezeyová, Ján Mezey, Mária Bihuňová, Roberta Štěpánková, Andrej Tárník, Ján Horák, and Kristína Candráková Part IV Equity and Inclusion within Sustainability Education 377 19 Inclusive Education and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities in HigherEducation for Students with Disabilities 379Samanmala Dorabawila, Sakunthala Yatigammana, and Anoma Abhayaratne 20 Embedding Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Communication Barriers to Learners with Special Needs 397Leena Seneheweera and Varunadatta Edirisinghe 21 Sustainable Higher Education for Disabled Students: Comprehensive and Quality Support for All Process Participants – University of Zagreb Support Model 421Lelia Kiš- Glavaš 22 Barriers, New Developments, and Emerging Trends in Sustainability in HE 453Kelum A. A. Gamage and Erandika K. de Silva Index 461

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Book SynopsisFacility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik created LEED Lab, in collaboration with the US Green Building Council, an increasingly popular international interdisciplinary collegiate laboratory course, which utilizes campus buildings as demonstration sites to facilitate the green assessment of existing buildings. LEED Lab: A Model for Sustainable Design Education uses the LEED O+M building rating system to measure and achieve performance-driven campus facilities in which the readers work and operate.The book explains in simple terms the theory, tasks, tools and techniques necessary for credit implementation and achievement, and includes case studies and exercises for practical application in each chapter. Readers will learn the conceptual scientific framework used to understand existing operational performance and how to quantify sustainable synergies, create green caTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Platform 4. PHASE 1: Feasibility 5. PHASE 2: Implementation 6. Site 7. Water 8. Energy 9. Materials 10. Air Quality 11. PHASE 3: Documentation

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Book SynopsisStuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability at Lancaster University, UK.Martyn Evans is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Tom Cassidy is Chair of Design at the University of Leeds, UK.Jeyon Jung is Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK.Amy Twigger Holroyd is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham Trent University, UK.Trade ReviewCraft has deep roots and heritage but these material skills and ways of working are just as relevant today as they were centuries ago. Critical writing on craft, such as Design Roots, is crucial to ensure it continues to evolve and thrive. * Rosy Greenlees OBE, Executive Director of the Crafts Council, UK *A balanced, insightful, integrated agenda... a collaboration of thoughtful practitioners that offers fruitful research... The insightful editors and creative contributors managed to avoid most difficulties seen in edited volumes: the range of quality, the consistency of the essays, and the enlarged sum of the book impressed me... These pages do not offer sentimentality and nostalgia but promote the evolving, innovative, and adaptive nature of traditional, culturally significant designs, products and practices... [I] enjoyed the satisfaction of an admirable accomplishment... I would recommend this edited volume to thinking practitioners and researchers looking for inspiration – it is full of ideas worth pursuing. * K. Scott Swan writing for the Design Journal, Routledge *Table of ContentsEditorial Introduction, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) Part I Introduction: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 1. Creative Ecologies: Contextualising Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Jeyon Jung and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) 2. Forging New Futures: Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and Authenticity, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 3. Culturally Significant Artefacts and Their Relationship to Tradition and Sustainability, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) 4. Making and its Cultural Ecological Foundations, Patrick Dillon (University of Exeter, UK) Part II Introduction: Authenticity and Tradition in Material Culture, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 5. The Aran Jumper, Siún Carden (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK) 6. Chok Weaving and Textile Enterprises from Northern Thailand, Disaya Chudasri (Lancaster University, UK) 7. Oltu-Stone Prayer Beads: A Journey into the Art of Carving Tasbih, Hazal Gümüs Çiftçi (Lancaster University, UK) 8. The Mian Sara: Traditional Iranian Homes and Sustainability, Poone Yazdanpanah and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) 9. IKEA: Mass-produced National Design Identity, Sara S. Kristoffersson (Konstfack University College, Sweden) Part III Introduction: Revitalisation by Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK) 10. Culture as a Resource for a Sustainable Future in Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Atikamekw Identity and Economics through Design, Anne Marchand, Karine Awashish, Christian Coocoo, Solen Roth, Renata Marques Leitão, Cédric Sportes and Caoimhe Isha Beaulé (University of Montreal, Canada) 11. Transforming Tradition in Indonesia: A Method for Maintaining Tradition in a Craft and Design Context, Adhi Nugraha (Aalto University, Finland) 12. New Translations of South Korean Patterns, Meong Jin Shin (University of Leeds, UK) 13. Revitalisation by Design, Sebastian Cox (Sebastian Cox Ltd, UK) 14. New Caribbean Design: Revitalising Place-based Products, Patty Johnson (Patty Johnson Design, Canada) Part IV Introduction: Enterprise, Policy and Education for Positive Development, Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK) 15. Sustaining Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices: Lessons from the Hohokam, Jacques Giard (Arizona State University, USA) 16. Accidents, Intentions, Movements and Makers: Artisan Economy in Portland, Oregon, USA,Steven Marotta, Austin Cummins and Charles Heying (Portland State University, USA) 17. The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Culturally Significant Crafts in Estonia, Sirpa Kokko (University of Helsinki, Finland) 18. The Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights for Culturally Significant Patterns, Products and Processes, Tom Cassidy and Tracy Diane Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK) 19. The Case of the City Different: The Intersection of the Museum, the Artist and the Marketplace, Marsha C. Bol (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA) Part V Introduction: Design Futures, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) and Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 20. Research Approaches for Culturally Significant Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK) 21. Digital Transformations, Amateur Making and the Revitalisation of Traditional Textile Crafts, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 22. Design for Social Innovators, Anna Meroni and Daniela Selloni (Politechnico di Milano, Italy) 23. Integrated Scales of Design and Production for Sustainability with a Focus on Graduate Design Work in Lighting, Çagla Dogan (Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey) 24. Designing Authentic Brands: How Designerly Approaches can Craft Authentic Brand Identity, Emma Murphy (Glasgow School of Art, UK) 25. Strategies for Revitalisation of Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Stuart Walker and Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK) and Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisJoanna Boehnert is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) at the University of Surrey, UK.Trade ReviewJoanna Boehnert's book shows in a masterful manner that there are no technological, ideological or other easy fixes to the contradiction between capitalism and nature. She powerfully makes the point that we need political design in order to create a better world. A must-read for everyone interested in design, ecology, communication and politics. * Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster, UK *Dr Boehnert envisions a possible, eco-ethical praxis sufficient to the urgency of the Ecocene era. With inspirational tempo, she sweeps across and connects the significant ideas that advance design eco-literacy, decolonizing and replacing outmoded discourses with powerful fresh starts. * Peter Jones, Co-founder of the Systemic Design Research Network at OCAD University, Canada *Design, Ecology, Politics is a powerful contribution. It is a thoroughly innovative, provocative and confrontational approach to pressing twenty-first century challenges at the human-environment interface. Joanna Boehnert has produced a compelling book which expands our considerations of design and ecological literacy in the complex socio-economic systems where we find 'home'. I enthusiastically recommend this work to those interested in charting productive and sustainable pathways through today's ecological, social and cultural challenges. * Maxwell Boykoff, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA *Design, Ecology, Politics commands design educators to ground their practice in critically engaged ecological literacy. Boehnert’s deeply textured and carefully crafted clarion call should be read by all who design on our earth. And it is a must for current and future planners. * Christopher Silver, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, USA *In this work, Dr Joanna Boehnert examines foundational elements of human perception and design, beautifully integrating situated knowledge into the complex systems in which it exists, offering insights both relevant and practicable. * Mara Averick, Research Analyst at the Economic Development Assistance Consortium, USA *At last, a book that clearly locates design for sustainability within a sophisticated account of contemporary political economy. To affect the transition toward more sustainable futures, we urgently need the lucid negotiation of social complexity that this book provides. * Cameron Tonkinwise, Director of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Within and Beyond Error Part One – Design 1. Design Theory 101 2. Design as Symbolic Violence 3. Design vs. The Design Industry Part Two – Ecology 4. Ecological Theory 101 5. Epistemological Error 6. Ecological Literacy 7. Ecoliterate Design 8. Ecological Movements 9. Ecological Perception 1: Theory 10. Ecological Perception 2: Practice 11. Ecological Identity Part Three – Politics 12. Social Marketing 13. The Green Economy 14. The TechnoFix 15. Data Visualisation Conclusion: Towards the Ecocene

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