sustainability
The latest master plan for the Port of San Francisco’s 47 acres Backlands, Piers 90 and 94, identifies potential tenants with both the means to build and operate within a sustainability program.
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The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability is about how design in all fields can move toward the goals of sustainability; the integration of information about design and sustainability rewards users with a rich range of ideas, concepts, and facts presented in a sophisticated format that is itself thought-provoking. As with other kinds of atlases, the varied text does not converge on one conclusion. Rather, readers take what they need to make their own.
More... Book Review: The Designer’s Atlas by Ann Thorpe
This densely written and wonderfully illustrated book seeks answers to questions such as: what is wrong with the cities we have created and what can be done to correct our mistakes?
More... Book Review: Design for Ecological Democracy