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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rademacher, Anne (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Rachana Sansad (College). > Institute of Environmental Architecture.
Sustainable architecture > India > Mumbai.
Architects > India > Mumbai.
Architecture > Environmental aspects > India > Mumbai.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > India > Mumbai.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • City ascending, city imploding
  • The integrated subject
  • Ecology in practice : environmental architecture as good design
  • Rectifying failure : imagining the new city and the power to create it
  • More than human nature and the open space predicament
  • Consciousness and Indian-ness : making design "good"
  • A vocation in waiting : ecology in practice
  • Soldiering sustainability.