Title & Author:

Enabling solutions for sustainable living : a workshop / contributing editors: Ezio Manzini, Stuart Walker and Barry Wylant.

Publication:

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2008.

Description:

xiv, 100 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 x 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 22).
Foreword / John Thackara -- Introduction. Designing for Sustainability and Strategic Design / Ezio Manzini -- Design Context: Enabling Solutions for Sustainable Urban Everyday Life / Ezio Manzini -- Sustainable Design / Stuart Walker -- Significance beyond Functional Singularity / Barry Wylant -- Workshop Theme: Envisioning a Culture of Sustainability / Stuart Walker and Barry Wylant -- Workshop Projects -- 1. Flex Mobility: Community Car-Sharing Agency -- 2. All the Street's a Stage: Making a Scene, Revitalizing Community -- 3. Calgary Garden Connections: People Growing People -- 4. My Classroom: Home-based Community Learning Centres.

Summary:

"Sustainability, environmental impact, green design, urban sprawl - all terms that have, in recent years, become part of the collective consciousness in the ongoing dialogue about climate change and global warming. Enabling Solutions fir Sustainable Living presents student work that explores these issues and exemplifies the application of "enabling solutions.""--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9781552382363 (pbk.)
1552382362 (pbk.)

Subject:

Suburbs Environmental aspects.
Sustainable living.
Suburban life.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Banlieues Aspect de l'environnement.
Style de vie durable.
Vie de la banlieue.
Urbanisme Aspect de l'environnement.

Added entries:

Manzini, Ezio.
Walker, Stuart, 1955-
Wylant, Barry, 1962-

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 257182
Call No.: BIB 187626
Status: Available