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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition.
Title:
Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition.
Author:
Van der Ryn, Sim.
ISBN:
9781597265973
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Edition:
10th ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Ten-Year Retrospective -- Part I: Bringing Design to Life -- Sustainability and Design -- An Introduction to Ecological Design -- Nature's Geometry -- Part II: The Ecological Design Process -- Introduction: The Compost Privy Story -- First Principle: Solutions Grow from Place -- Second Principle: Ecological Accounting Informs Design -- Third Principle: Design with Nature -- Fourth Principle: Everyone is a Designer -- Fifth Principle: Make Nature Visible -- Resource Guide for Ecological Design -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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