Ethics and the Built Environment / Edition 1

by Warwick Fox

Overview

Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.
This book should be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and general readers with an interest in ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415238786
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/02/2000
Series:	Professional Ethics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Warwick Fox is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of Toward a Transpersonal Ecology, 1995.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Warwick Fox; Part 1 The Green Imperative–and Its Vicissitudes; Part 2 Greening Urban Society, Herbert Girardet; Part 3 Building Ethics into the Built Environment, John Whitelegg; Part 4 Green Building, Tom Woolley; Part 5 Building, Global Warming and Ethics, Terry Williamson and , Antony Radford; Part 6 Contested Constructions, Simon Guy and , Graham Farmer; Part 7 Building with Greater Sensitivity to People(s) and Places; Part 8 Social Inclusion and the Sustainable City, Roger Talbot and , Gian Carlo Magnoli; Part 9 Transformative Architecture, Bob Fowles; Part 10 Ethics and Vernacular Architecture, Paul Oliver; Part 11 Ethical Building in the Everyday Environment, Christopher Day; Part 12 Can ‘spirit of Place’ Be a Guide to Ethical Building?, Isis Brook; Part 13 Steps towards a Theory of the Ethics of the Built Environment; Part 14 The Conceptual Basis of Building Ethics, Mustafa Pultar; Part 15 Howto Think about the Ethics of Architecture, Saul Fisher; Part 16 The Taj Mahal and the Spider’s Web, Keekok Lee; Part 17 Ethical Arguments about the Aesthetics of Architecture, Nigel Taylor; Part 18 Towards an Ethics (or at Least a Value Theory) of the Built Environment, Warwick Fox; Part 19 Conclusion, Warwick Fox;

Editorial Reviews

'If you are an architect, structural engineer, urban planner or are in any other way professionally involved in the built environment, or if you are an environmental ethicist who wants to broaden your vision to include the built environment, buy this book. If you're not, buy it for someone who is.' - Environmental Ethics

From the Publisher

Seventeen contributions from an international mix of philosophers and architects (and also a sociologist and a cultural ecologist) consider the ethical issues that are raised by the relationship between the built and the natural environment. Topics addressed include global warming, building and sustainability, participatory design, and the ethics of architecture (including aesthetics). The text aims to spur discussion of the ethics of building and to propose some tentative solutions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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