Ken Yeang (Llewelyn Davies Yeang, London, UK)

Saving The Planet By Design

Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can we save the planet by design? â for a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415685818
• ISBN-10: 0415685818
• Artikelnr.: 58053723

Autorenporträt

Ken Yeang is an architect, planner and ecologist, best known for his signature ecoarchitecture and ecomasterplans, which are differentiated from other green architects by an authentic ecology-based approach, and by their distinctive green aesthetics, performance and biodiversity, beyond conventional rating systems. He was trained at the Architectural Association School in the UK. He is a pioneer in the field of green design, starting from his doctorate in the 1970s at Cambridge University on ecological design and planning.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface 1. Reinventing the human-made world to address the
sustainability equation 2. Redefining design to include the ecological
sciences: The principle of ecocentricity 3. Reinventing the built
environment by 'ecomimicry' 4. Ecological Design as the biointegration of a
set of 'infrastructures': The 'quatrobrid' constructed ecosystem 5.
Nature-based infrastructure - Earth's 'life support system' 6. Hydrological
infrastructure 7. Technological infrastructure 8. Anthropocentric
infrastructure 9. Being 'at one' with Nature Glossary Bibliography Index