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.
9780195173680
Environmental responsibility Global environmental change Environmental ethics Planning--Environmental aspects