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oapen-20.500.12657-437612023-02-01T09:34:12Z Building Green Rademacher, Anne Social Science Anthropology General Science Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry Environmental) bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TQ Environmental science, engineering & technology Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India’s first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book’s focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in Building Green act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future. 2020-12-15T13:56:23Z 2020-12-15T13:56:23Z 2017 book 9780520296008 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43761 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf University of California Press University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.42 640437.0 10.1525/luminos.42 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780520296008 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of California Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India’s first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book’s focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in Building Green act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future.
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