Frederick Steiner

Design for a Vulnerable Planet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet¿s eco

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UNIV OF TEXAS PR
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 288mm x 225mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1246g
• ISBN-13: 9780292723856
• ISBN-10: 0292723857
• Artikelnr.: 33138745

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Design and the Fate of Our Planet
4. I. Living Urban Environments
* 1. Architecture and the Wealth of Regions
* 2. Sustaining Design: The Solar Decathlon Competitions
* 3. Twenty-First-Century Architecture
* 4. Architecture Has Left the Building: The Sustainable Sites
Initiative
* 5. Making Territory: The Potential of Landscape Urbanism
5. II. Lessons from Paul Cret, Ian McHarg, and George Mitchell
* 6. City Limits: Pioneer Plans in Austin
* 7. The Woodlands: The Ecological Design of a New City
6. III. Emerging Urbanism in Texas
* 8. The Trinity River Corridor: Another Emerald Necklace or an Emerald
Choker?
* 9. Making Limoncello from Lemons: The Blanton Museum of Art Plaza
Design
* 10. True Urbanism: The Design of Performance Park in the Dallas Arts
District
* 11. Legacies
7. IV. New Regionalism in Texas and Beyond
* 12. The Green Heart of Texas
* 13. Envision Central Texas
* 14. The Texas Triangle Megaregion
* 15. New Regionalism
8. V. Learning from Abroad
* 16. Environmental Readings: The Italian Design Tradition
* 17. Autumn Moon: Design and Planning in China
9. VI. Learning from Disaster
* 18. In Search of a Fitting Tribute: The United Flight 93 Memorial
* 19. Resilient Foundations: Planning for the Gulf Coast After
Hurricane Katrina
10. VII. Conclusion
* 20. The Sedimentation of Our Minds: Prospects for New Design Thinking
11. Notes
12. Bibliography
13. Index