Main entry:

Rademacher, Anne, author.

Title & Author:

Building green : environmental architects and the struggle for sustainability in Mumbai / Anne Rademacher.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Description:

xiv, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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 mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India's first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book's focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in Building Green act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520296008 paperback
0520296001 paperback
e-edition
9780520968721

Subject:

Rachana Sansad (College). Institute of Environmental Architecture.
Sustainable architecture India Mumbai.
Architects India Mumbai.
Architecture Environmental aspects India Mumbai.
Urban ecology (Sociology) India Mumbai.
Architecture durable Inde Mumbai.
Architectes Inde Mumbai.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Inde Mumbai.
Écologie urbaine Inde Mumbai.
Architects
Architecture Environmental aspects
Sustainable architecture
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Bauökologie
Humanökologie
Kulturanthropologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Sanitäranlage
Stadtforschung
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
India Mumbai
Auroville
Indien
Mumbai

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298103
Call No.: BIB 244385
Status: Available