The nature of design: ecology, culture, and human intention/

Orr, David W.

The nature of design: ecology, culture, and human intention/ David W. Orr - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. - x, 237 p. ; 22 cm.

I. Problem of ecological design. Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design --
II. Pathologies and barriers. Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis --
III. Politics of design. None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; A politics worthy of the name ; The limits of nature and the educational nature of limits --
IV. Design as pedagogy. Architecture and education ; The architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; A higher order of heroism --
V. Charity, wildness, and children. The ecology of giving and consuming ; The great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design.

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Environmental responsibility
Global environmental change
Environmental ethics
Planning--Environmental aspects

304.28 / ORR/T
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