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Corporate Author Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.

Title Green living : architecture and planning / the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.

Imprint New York : Rizzoli, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  720.47 P935g 2010    ---  Available
Description 208 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Note "Originally published in the United Kingdom as "Tradition & sustainability" in 2010 by Compendium Publishing"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / HRH the Prince of Wales -- Sustainability and tradition : two sides of the coin / Hank Dittmar -- Ten thousand years of building : history is in our future / Bruce King -- Living traditions and the original green / Stephen Mouzon -- Tradition and innovation in green architecture and urbanism / James Steele -- The four greens / Andres Duany -- Bodies and buildings : microcosm and macrocosm in traditional architecture and urbanism / David Mayernik -- Sustainable refurbishment : a key component of the built heritage / Tim Yates -- Environmental priorities and traditional ways of building / Norman Crowe -- Cultural sustainability and the renewal of tradition / Victor Deupi -- Our health in response to the built environment / June Tester and Richard Jackson -- The road to the natural house / James Hulme -- Afterword : the green tradition : innovating the future / Barbara Kenda -- The contributors -- Image credits -- Index.
Subject Sustainable architecture.
Architecture and energy conservation.
Sustainable living.
ISBN 9780847833108 (hc.)
0847833100 (hc.)

 
    
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