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By Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan

ISBN-10: 1559633883

ISBN-13: 9781559633888

ISBN-10: 1597261416

ISBN-13: 9781597261418

Ecological Design is a landmark quantity that helped herald an exhilarating new period in eco-friendly layout and sustainability making plans. considering the fact that its preliminary book in 1996, the ebook has been significantly vital in sparking discussion and triggering collaboration throughout spatial scales and layout professions in pursuit of constructions, items, and landscapes with considerably reduced environmental affects. This tenth anniversary variation makes the paintings on hand to a brand new new release of practitioners and thinkers fascinated with relocating our society onto a extra sustainable path.

 

Using examples from structure, business ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater remedy, and lots of different fields, Ecological Design presents a framework for integrating human layout with dwelling structures. Drawing on complicated platforms, ecology, and early examples of eco-friendly construction and layout, the ebook demanding situations us to move additional, developing structures, infrastructures, and landscapes which are really restorative instead of only diminishing the speed at which issues are becoming worse.

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