Sustainability and the Architectural History
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See Academic Programs in Sustainability on AASHE's (Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) website. http://www.aashe.org/resources/academic-programs-sustainability
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In the discipline of engineering, see J. R. Mihelcic et al., ‘Sustainability Science and Engineering: The Emergence of a New Metadiscipline'. Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 23 (2003), pp. 5314-24.
M. Jarzombek, ‘Molecules, Money and Design: The Question of Sustainability's Role in Architectural Academe'. Thresholds 18, Design & Money, (Spring 1999), pp. 32-38.
See P. Anker, ‘The Closed World of Ecological Architecture', The Journal of Architecture, 10, 5 (2005), pp. 527-552; W. McDonough and M. Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (New York, North Point Press 2002); V. Olgyay and J. Herdt, ‘The Application of Ecosystems Services Criteria for Green Building Assessment', Solar Energy, 77, 4 (2004), pp. 389-98; D. W. Orr, The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004); N. Todd and J. Todd, From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design (Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 1994); U. S. Green Building Council, LEED Green Building Rating Systems (Annapolis, MD, Office of the Secretary of State, Div. of State Documents 2006); S. Van der Ryn and S. Cowan, Ecological Design (Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1995).
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For recent scholarship that analyzes design discourses in terms of the cultural and ethical aspects of sustainability. See M. Jarzombek, ‘Sustainability, Architecture, And "Nature" Between Fuzzy Systems and Wicked Problems'. Thresholds, 26, Denatured (Spring 2003), pp. 54-56; Orr, The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention; K.Tanzer and R. Longoria, eds., The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity (London, New York, Routledge, 2007).
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S. Mosley, The Environment in World History, pp1-13.
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M. Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2002).
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See Joel Tarr's historiographic essay on urban environmental history, J. A. Tarr, ‘Urban History and Environmental History in the United States: Complementary and Overlapping Fields', in C. Bernhardt, ed., Environmental Problems in European Cities in the 19th and 20th Century, (Munster, New York, Waxmann, 2004), pp. 25-40.
Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, 7.
R. Ingersoll and S. Kostof, World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History
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Ching, Jarzombek, and Prakash, A Global History of Architecture, xi-xvi.
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Ibid., pp. 3-32.
T. R. Metcalf, An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989), pp. 24-54.
See environmental history books that have been written from the perspective of the human transformation of rivers in the context of nineteenth century engineering. M. Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002); D. H. Porter, The Thames Embankment : Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London (Akron, Ohio, University of Akron Press, 1998).
J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2000), pp. 3-17.
Ibid. McNeill argues that the human induced environmental problems of the past were localized in their impact, which is no longer the case as we deal with global problems, such rising sea levels. In addition, we face the possibility of crossing certain thresholds that consequently unleash a chain of events that progress on a non-linear trajectory, like exceeding the 26 degree Celsius temperature mark in the tropical Atlantic that promotes increased number of hurricanes of greater intensity.
J. D. Hughes, ‘The Impact of Greek Civilization on the Natural Environment', in Ecology in Ancient Civilizations (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1975), pp. 68-86.
J. D. Hughes, ‘Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure: Augustus to Diocleletian', in A. Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and J. Martínez Alier, eds., Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, (Lanham, AltaMira Press, 2007), pp. 27-40; Hughes, ‘Urban Problems', in Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, pp. 149-68.
J. Donald Hughes, "Industrial Technology and Environmental Damage," in Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 112-29.
Ibid.
Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals.pp. 67-90
J. D. Hughes, ‘Sustainable Agriculture in Ancient Egypt'. Agricultural History, 66, 2 (1992), pp. 12-22.
Ibid.
J. .Lansing, ‘Balinese "Water Temples" and the Management of Irrigation'. American Anthropologist, 89, 2 (Jun. 1987), pp. 326-41.
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See J. Pierre Protzen, ‘Inca Quarrying and Stonecutting'. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 44, 2 (May, 1985), pp. 161-82.
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Trachtenberg and Hyman, Architecture, from Prehistory to Postmodernity, p.125.
Hughes, "Urban Problems," pp. 149-68.
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Ibid.
M.Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
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Moffett, Fazio, and Wodehouse, Buildings across Time : An Introduction to World Architecture, pp. 191-224
R. Keyser, "The Transformation of Traditional Woodland Management: Commercial Sylviculture in Medieval Champagne," French Historical Studies, 32, 3 (2009), pp. 353-84.
Ibid.
K. R. Appuhn, A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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