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"Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary
publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an
accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe
have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at
the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an
unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable
literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from
different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the
problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity.
Resource recovery and the optimisation of material flow can only be
achieved alongside and through behaviour change to reduce the
creation of material waste and wasteful consumption. This book aims
to develop a more robust understanding of the links between
lifestyle, consumption, technologies and urban development. "--
Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of
informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle
links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating
its global profile and considering urban informality through an
understanding of local implications, the authors collectively
reveal specific correlations between sites and their local
inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal
settlements or to view them as 'problems' to be solved. It comes at
a time when common notions of 'informality' are being increasingly
challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from
well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or
practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various
levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and
architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal
settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries,
approaching the topic through social, cultural and material
dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of
contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the
so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings
of informality at various scalar levels - region, precinct,
neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps
reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of
urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners,
architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the
interplay between informality and sustainability.
The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the
various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens
of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present,
and future transformation of this significant building typology
that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social
condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage,
and sharing. In particular, the library has evolved as a vibrant
and vital member of community development and as a basis for
outreach efforts. This book presents 40 recent public and academic
libraries from around the world, with over 200 images. As the
survey of precedents shows, the historical cases have informed the
design of the recent libraries and the continuous development of
the building type over time. Well-designed libraries are now in
abundance, and the wider view of this study includes médiathèque
and learning centres. The selection of contemporary projects
focuses on urban libraries in Europe (Germany, Italy, Austria,
Netherlands), the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and China.
Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and
scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features
essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of
urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon
cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban
heat stress in our cities' microclimates. The book explores the
underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed
into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low
carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections
between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and
individual values, public space, housing affordability, public
transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation
underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more
sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design
can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and
this book provides key insights.
Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores
and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density,
compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the
socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic
approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations
between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the
city, and the challenges and opportunities with density. The book
presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars,
thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical and practical works
address city planning, urban and architectural design for density
and sustainability at various levels, including challenges in
building resilience against climate change and natural disasters,
capacity and integration for growth and adaptability, ageing,
community and security, vegetation, food production, compact
resource systems and regeneration.
Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores
and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density,
compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the
socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic
approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations
between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the
city, and the challenges and opportunities with density. The book
presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars,
thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical and practical works
address city planning, urban and architectural design for density
and sustainability at various levels, including challenges in
building resilience against climate change and natural disasters,
capacity and integration for growth and adaptability, ageing,
community and security, vegetation, food production, compact
resource systems and regeneration.
Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and
scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features
essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of
urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon
cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban
heat stress in our cities' microclimates. The book explores the
underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed
into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low
carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections
between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and
individual values, public space, housing affordability, public
transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation
underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more
sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design
can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and
this book provides key insights.
Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many
levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the
collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring
the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of
consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays
in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture,
urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology,
psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy.
Aimed especially at designers and architects, Motivating Change
explores the diversity of current approaches to change, and the
multiple ways in which behaviour can be understood as an enactment
of values and beliefs, standards and habitual practices in daily
life, and more broadly in the urban environment.
Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many
levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the
collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring
the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of
consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays
in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture,
urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology,
psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy.
Aimed especially at designers and architects, Motivating Change
explores the diversity of current approaches to change, and the
multiple ways in which behaviour can be understood as an enactment
of values and beliefs, standards and habitual practices in daily
life, and more broadly in the urban environment.
"Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary
publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an
accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe
have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at
the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an
unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable
literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from
different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the
problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity.
Resource recovery and the optimisation of material flow can only be
achieved alongside and through behaviour change to reduce the
creation of material waste and wasteful consumption. This book aims
to develop a more robust understanding of the links between
lifestyle, consumption, technologies and urban development. "--
How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city
through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is
to use an energy-efficient, zero-carbon model based on renewable
energy sources and renewable building typologies. This book
presents different models for sustainable urban growth, based on
the principles of 'Green Urbanism'. Current and emergent forms of
urbanism are influenced by climate change, leading to the idea of a
new generation of 'zero-emission cities'. These cities are seen as
applying new concepts in densification and expansion, designed with
energy efficiency and sustainability as principal criteria. The aim
of this type of 'Systems Thinking' is to connect and integrate
sustainable design principles with a holistic idea for the future
of our cities to generate future-proof strategies for the
revitalization of the urban landscape. The first section of the
book clearly explains these principles and how they can be
employed, illustrated by clear diagrams for ease of comprehension.
The principles as applied are then explored through in-depth case
studies of the post-industrial Australian city of Newcastle, which
is at an important juncture in its urban evolution. This is
essential reading for urban designers, architects, landscape
architects and researchers/students in these disciplines around the
world.
This book takes a critical look at the influence of German
educators. It is a publication that explores the history of
pedagogical concepts of German-born professors of architecture at
schools in the United States. The research and book publication are
structured in three parts; it aims to make a significant
contribution to the understanding of architectural education in the
United States and its historical cross-fertilisation with German
educational concepts at large, with research outcomes responding
directly to current and future educational and societal challenges.
The ideals of the Bauhaus school shaped more than just design and
architecture around the world; these guiding principles and
pedagogy also transformed teaching. The project examines the
post-Bauhaus influence on these German-born educators today and how
the Bauhaus model has evolved over the last 50 years. There are
currently over 30 German-born educators, active in shaping
architectural and design education in the US, influencing thousands
of students as the next generation of future architects in this
country. Compared to other professions, succeeding in studies of
architecture is known as a long endeavor that requires a strong
commitment and dedication from the student. The task for the
educators is to shape the next generation of architects as well as
possible and, at the same time, turn it into a positive experience
and fun to be part of this demanding profession. The book features
interviews (conversations) with selected professors and explores
how the Bauhaus legacy of Gropius and Mies van der Rohe is still
relevant for their educational strategies and design teaching
today. The Bauhaus aimed to unite all creative arts through direct
field and workshop experience in the crafts with a concentration on
modern materials, industrial techniques and mass production. It was
initially a school of design which included architecture, and not a
school of architecture per se. Gropius resigned in 1928, and it was
largely under the directorship of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from
1930 to 1933 that the Bauhaus developed into a school of
architecture with subsidiary art and workshop departments. The
pedagogical experiments of the Bauhaus, imported by Gropius, Mies,
Hilberseimer, Albers and others to the US system, challenged
traditional Beaux-Arts thinking and played a crucial role in
shaping modern architectural education. Historically, the German
architectural training has always been different from the French
tradition. These new interdisciplinary and technology-focused modes
of teaching architecture and design had long-lasting impact,
however, are now again transformed by the educators currently
active in reshaping curricula. The conversations reveal the
critical and independent thinking of this group and how they make a
meaningful contribution to the discourse of architectural education
appropriate to the 21st century. Authored by an internationally
recognised scholar with personal insight into the topic, the six
selected educators profiled in this volume render visible a broad
array of discursive pedagogical strategies that partially build on
the seminal educational model of the Bauhaus; they have transformed
it to a new contemporary pedagogical model. The study provides
insight into the ways in which these German-trained educators
influence architectural and design education in the United States
to this day.
Urban Regeneration - A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the
Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex
process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished
project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It
is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a
prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on
the characteristics of a 'good place' and the strategies of
sustainable urbanism. It asks readers to consider how we can best
transform the derelict, abandoned and run-down parts of cities back
into places where people want to live, work and play. The book
frames an architecture of re-use that translates and combines the
complex 'science of cities' and the art of urban and architectural
design into actionable and practical guidance on how to regenerate
cities. Fascinated by the typology and value of the compact UK and
European city model, Lehmann introduces the concept of 'high
density without high buildings' as a solution that will make our
cities compact, walkable, mixed-use and vibrant again.
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures,
adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It
concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian
architect Lina Bo Bardi's late adaptive reuse projects and works
from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes,
technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury
as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi
"invented" her own version of sustainability, introduced this
concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and
through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a
critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the
importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes
for researchers and provides researchers and students new material
on sustainability for further study. In the context of the
plurality of revisions of Lina Bo Bardi's work, this book brings
about a refreshed interpretation of her integrative approach to
adaptive reuse of buildings and landscapes as a significant
contribution to the sustainability debate. It offers new insights
into the construction of discourses about sustainability from the
perspective of one of the key architects in the period to operate
in the interface between modernity and tradition. - Dr Fabiano
Lemes de Oliveira, Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth (UK)
Adaptability is one of the most important words in sustainable
architecture today. From this perspective, this book looks at the
work of a master of Brazilian modernism with lessons to be learnt
on how to qualify indoor and outdoor spaces in social,
environmental and architectural terms. Adaptive strategies as those
seen throughout the work of Bo Bardi are key
instrument/tools/concept to sustainable buildings and cities.
Professor Joana Carla Soares Goncalves, FAU, University of Sao
Paulo (Brazil) The year 2015 marked the centenary of Lina Bo Bardi.
This book is looking at Bardi's work through the perspective of
adaptive reuse. Bringing together specialists on sustainability
with specialists of Lina's work, the book generates an interesting
new layer of discussion on the work of an architect that was never
shy of controversy. Associate Professor Fernando Luiz Lara,
University of Texas at Austin (USA) This collection of essays makes
a very important and engaging contribution to suggest that to take
Lina as an inspiration is to deal with her contradictions and to
evaluate the stakes of what she struggled with in a 21st century
world. What the authors gathered here and have laid out is a very
timely invitation to discern "Lessons from Lina" in relationship to
today's pressing issues of architecture and environment,
sustainability, recycling, and developing an ethical design
position in a world of diminishing resources and escalating
challenges. -Prof Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University and MoMA, New
York (USA) The book features a Foreword by Barry Bergdoll. Winner
of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best
Book of the Year (Oct. 2017). Here the judges' appraisal: "An
elegantly conceptualised and carefully crafted volume that
represents the work of the twentieth century Brazilian architect
Lina Bo Bardi through the lens of urgent contemporary questions of
sustainability, adaptive re-use and ethical design. The book brings
together a multidisciplinary and international collection of
authors and addresses a global readership. It is beautifully
presented and intelligently edited." (Jury, Book Award 2017) Winner
of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best
Chapter of the Year (Sept. 2017): Annette Condello. Chapter 3
"Salvaging the Site's Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi - Landscape
Architect." Here the judges appraisal: "A richly textured
investigation of Lina Bo Bardi, a complex, fascinating and
important Italian-born Brazilian architect, designer and co-founder
of the magazine Habitat. [...] This chapter is a thoughtful and
respectful but also critical piece, combining thorough research
with deft analysis and carefully selected images, and the
publication has been highly recommended by leading academics and
curators." (Jury, Book Award 2017)
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