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Green living : architecture and planning

Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment
A collection of essays in which twelve experts in green architecture and urbanism share their thoughts on the clash between perceptions of sustainable housing and the desire for traditional homes and offices, and possible solutions to the problem
Print Book, English, 2010
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Rizzoli, New York, 2010
208 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
9780847833108, 0847833100
615649399
Architecture and energy conservation
Architecture durable
Architecture et économies d'énergie
Architektur
Energieeinsparung
Großbritannien
Nachhaltigkeit
Style de vie durable
Sustainable architecture
Sustainable living
energy efficient buildings
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales6(2)
1. Sustainability and Tradition: Two Sides of the Coin
8(14)
Hank Dittmar
2. Ten Thousand Years of Building: History is in Our Future
22(18)
Bruce King
3. Living Traditions and the Original Green
40(18)
Stephen Mouzon
4. Tradition and Innovation in Green Architecture and Urbanism
58(16)
Prof. James Steele
5. The Four Greens
74(12)
Andres Duany
6. Bodies and Buildings: Microcosm and Macrocosm in Traditional Architecture and Urbanism
86(26)
Prof. David Mayernik
7. Sustainable Refurbishment: A Key Component of the Built Heritage
112(14)
Dr. Tim Yates
8. Environmental Priorities and Traditional Ways of Building
126(22)
Prof. Norman Crowe
9. Cultural Sustainability and the Renewal of Tradition
148(22)
Dr. Victor Deupi
10. Our Health in Response to the Built Environment
170(8)
Dr. June Tester
Dr. Richard Jackson
11. The Road to the Natural House
178(16)
James Hulme
Afterword. The Green Tradition: Innovating the Future194(6)
Dr. Barbara Kenda
The Contributors200(4)
Image credits204(1)
Index205
"Originally published in the United Kingdom as "Tradition & sustainability" in 2010 by Compendium Publishing"--Title page verso