| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
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monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert -- Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stephen R. Kellert -- Environmental ethics / Sarah van Gelder -- Uneconomic growth and the built environment / Herman E. Daly -- Introduction to renewable energy technologies / Stephen J. Strong -- Environmentally responsible building materials selection / Nadav Malin -- Ecological design, living machines, and the purification of waters / John Todd -- Landscape: source of life or liability / John Tillman Lyle -- Construction and demolition waste / Peter Yost -- Building values / Gail A. Lindsey -- Architecture as pedagogy / David Orr -- Biourbanism and sustainable urban planning / Daniel Williams -- Creating greener communities through conservation subdivision design / Randall Arendt -- Environmentally superior buildings from birth to death / Thomas E. Graedel -- Environmental performance of buildings / Raymond J. Cole -- The Chicago Brownfields initiative / William C. Trumbull -- Sustainable new town and industrial ecology / Ernest A. Lowe. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil engineering, economics, architecture, construction, and a host of other fields who are seeking to discover ways of creating a more sustainable built environment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Real estate development -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Real estate development -- Environmental aspects. |
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United States. |
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Real estate development. |
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kibert, Charles J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reshaping the built environment. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1999 (DLC) 99012892 (OCoLC)40830078 |
| ISBN |
1559637013 |
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9781559637015 |
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1559637021 |
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9781559637022 |
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9781610913126 |
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1610913124 |
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