Title & Author:

Green dream : how future cities can outsmart nature / t?f, the Why Factory ; [concept and editors, Winy Maas ; with Ulf Hackauf and Pirjo Haikola].

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; New York : [Distributed by] D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2010.

Description:

406 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Future cities series ; 2

Notes:
Cover title.
"Based on the MSc Studio 'Green Dream', spring 2008 at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology"--Page 406.
Includes bibliographical references.
Green dream / Winy Maas -- Twenty-two observations on today's green / Ulf Hackauf and Pirjo Haikola with Winy Mass [and others] : Green buildings are ugly ; The complexity of green is paralyzing ; Green ideology is schizophrenic ; Green has become religious ; Hype could kill green ; Green progresses too slowly ; Natural does not exist ; Green dismisses science ; Greenwashing is misleading ; Small green deeds are not enough ; There is a green fatigue ; Green needs funding ; There is more than one green crisis ; Democracy can cope with green ; Eco-cities are too small ; Global transport is good for green ; Local food is overrated ; Water is misused ; Trees are misinterpreted ; Materials are depleting ; There is enough energy ; Green icons have an impact -- Five outlooks on tomorrow's green : Metrics, or aesthetics? / John Thackara -- Energize! : interview with James Woudhuysen ; Synergy, not autarky : interview with Andy van den Dobbelsteen ; Measure cities : interview with Paul van Bergen ; Infrastructure is the challenge : interview with Jaap Wiedenhoff / by Ulf Hackauf -- Green city calculator / The Why factory with Arup, DGMR and MVRDV -- The greenest city / Pirjo Haikola -- Nine green dreams : Food racks Barcelona / Nicola Placella and Magnus Svensson -- Monsoon collectors in Douala / Ryan Forster -- Dew mountains in Cairo / Ryan Forster -- Skinny, elastic buildings in Hong Kong / Ulf Hackauf and Pirjo Haikola -- Windy city near Jyväskylä / Marcello Fantuz and Andreas Kalpakci -- Huge airplanes and super fast trains / Ulf Hackauf and Pirjo Haikola -- Glowing canals in Amsterdam / Carlo Maria Morsiani and Tanya Martinez Gonzales -- White days and green nights in Taipei / Ulf Hackauf and Pirjo Haikola -- Giant water lilies in Phuket / Ulf Hackauf, Pirjo Haikola and Gonzalo Rivas -- After green : epilogue / Winy Maas.

Summary:

Everybody's talking about Green these days; sustainable architecture and urbanism are getting almost universal attention. And they deserve it. Who could possibly oppose Green?
But there's also a lot of suspicion around Green. Research is contradictory. Conclusions are ambiguous. Born-again sustainability gurus are appearing out of nowhere, advocating new truths. Politicians and developers misuse ecology to promote their own agendas. Greenwashing has become the state-of-the-art marketing tool. Who can we trust? Some things are wrong with Green ...
Can we overcome this moment of confusion and abuse? What we need, to proceed effectively, is a neutral, rational tool that can balance and validate vague assumptions about Green. Can we invent a calculator for Green that exposes our dilemmas and judges our efforts? That brings about a new aesthetics, linked to a more advanced understanding of nature? That could even beat nature?
The Why Factory is a global think-tank and research institute, run by MVRDV and Delft University of Technology and led by professor Winy Maas. The Why Factory's Future Cities research programme explores possibilities for the development of our cities by focusing on the production of models and visualizations for cities of the future. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9789056627416 (pbk.)
9056627414 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Sustainable architecture.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Écologie urbaine.
Urbanisme durable.
Architecture durable.
urban environments.
urban areas.
urban planning.
sustainability.
environmental policies.
human ecology.
Aménagement urbain.
Sociologie urbaine.
Effets sur l'environnement.
Architecture.
Urbanisme.
Développement durable.
Architecture and Planning.
Stadsplanering miljöaspekter.
Hållbar utveckling.

Added entries:

Maas, Winy, 1959-
Hackauf, Ulf.
Haikola, Pirjo.
Why Factory.
Future cities series ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268732
Call No.: BIB 200603
Status: Available