Ecological Urbanism

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Architecture

ISBN: 9783037781890
English edition
Lars Müller Publishers
Hardcover, 656 pages
16,5 x 24 cm
illustrated
2010
€40,00 (excl. VAT)

Ecological Urbanism

Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Graduate School of Design Ed(s)

While climate change and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities.

Ecological Urbanism approaches the city with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary approach. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment. The book brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.