TY - BOOK ID - 56991793 TI - Building green PY - 2018 SN - 9780520296008 9780520968721 0520968727 0520296001 PB - Oakland, California University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Architecture KW - Social geography KW - human ecology KW - sustainable architecture KW - architects KW - Mumbai KW - Sustainable architecture KW - Architects KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Environmental aspects KW - Rachana Sansad (College). KW - Cities and towns KW - Urban ecology KW - Urban environment KW - Social ecology KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Professional employees KW - Eco-architecture KW - Environmentally conscious architecture KW - Environmentally friendly architecture KW - Green architecture KW - Green building design KW - Green design (Buildings) KW - Sustainable design (Buildings) KW - Sustainable design KW - Design and construction KW - Institute of Environmental Architecture (Mumbai, India) KW - Rachana Sansad Institute of Environmental Architecture KW - RSIEA (Rachana Sansad Institute of Environmental Architecture) KW - activists. KW - architects. KW - dense population. KW - designers. KW - ecological stresses. KW - engaged architectural practice. KW - environment. KW - environmental architecture. KW - graduate degree program. KW - green design. KW - informal settlements. KW - layered political power relations. KW - mumbai. KW - practitioners. KW - scientists. KW - sustainability. KW - urban and land use planning. KW - urban areas. KW - urban change. KW - urban development economy. KW - urban expertise. KW - wealth asymmetries. KW - Architecture, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56991793 AB - "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"--Provided by publisher. ER -