Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability

Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability

by Christopher Day (Author), Christopher Day (Author), Julie Gwilliam (Author)

Synopsis

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities - the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design.

In Living Architecture, Living Cities Christopher Day moves beyond the current emphasis on technological change. He argues that eco-technology allows us to continue broadly as before and only defers the impending disaster. In reality, most negative environmental impacts are due to how we live and the things we buy. Such personal choices often result from dissatisfaction with our surroundings. As perceived environment has a direct effect on attitudes and motivations, improving this can achieve more sustainable lifestyles more effectively than drastic building-change - with its notorious performance-gap limitations. As it's in places that our inner feelings and material reality interact, perceived environment is place-based. Ultimately, however, as the root cause of unsustainability is attitude, real change requires moving from the current focus on buildings and technology to an emphasis on the non-material.

Featuring over 400 high quality illustrations, this is essential reading for anyone who believes in the value and power of good design. Christopher Day's philosophy will continue to inspire students with an interest in sustainable architecture, urban planning, and related fields.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 466
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 20 Nov 2019

ISBN 10: 1138594822
ISBN 13: 9781138594821

Author Bio
Christopher Day is an eco-architect, self-builder and sculptor. He designs buildings in line with the ecological principles of his books and has won several awards. A former visiting professor at Queen's University, Belfast, he has also designed, consulted, taught and lectured in over twenty countries across the world, from California to Siberia, Sweden to New Zealand: wide-ranging climates and cultures. He was awarded an MBE for his services to architecture and innovation in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list. His previous publications include Places of the Soul 3e, Consensus Design, Environment and Children and Spirit and Place, also available from Routledge. Dr Gwilliam is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK as well as Post Graduate Dean for the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering. For ten years she led the MSc in Theory and Practice of Sustainable Design and she continues to contribute to teaching on the subject of sustainability throughout the school, including the MA Urban Design.