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Building Green : Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai.

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Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Rademacher, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland : University of California Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture.
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture
Sustainable architecture > India > Mumbai.
Architects > India > Mumbai.
Architecture > Environmental aspects > India > Mumbai.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > India > Mumbai.
Architects
Architecture > Environmental aspects
Sustainable architecture
Urban ecology (Sociology)
India > Mumbai
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. City Ascending, City Imploding
  • 2. The Integrated Subject
  • 3. Ecology in Practice: Environmental Architecture as Good Design
  • 4. Rectifying Failure: Imagining the New City and the Power to Create It
  • 5. More than Human Nature and the Open Space Predicament
  • 6. Consciousness and Indian-ness: Making Design "Good"
  • 7. A Vocation in Waiting: Ecology in Practice
  • 8. Soldiering Sustainability
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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