Ethics and the Built Environment (Professional Ethics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415238781 ISBN 13: 9780415238786

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.
This book should be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and general readers with an interest in ethics.

About this title

About the Author

Warwick Fox is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of Toward a Transpersonal Ecology, 1995.

From the Back Cover

What basic ethical principles should architects, planners and builders seek to uphold in their work?

Most of us living in modern societies spend nearly all our time in highly organised built environments. The structure and quality of our built environments is a significant determinant of our well-being. However, their effects are also far more widespread than this. Built environments impose massive resource demands upon the planet and generate massive amounts of waste. For this reason, the fate of the 'green bits' of the environment is now inextricably tied up with, and effectively at the mercy of, the future of the 'brown bits'. Written by a selection of international contributors, this book considers the ethical issues that are raised by the relationship between the built and the natural environment, and addresses questions about the way in which we ought to build. Topics addressed include cities, global warming, building and sustainability, participatory design, and the ethics of architecture.

Suitable for the student and professional alike, Ethics and the Built Environment establishes an agenda for the future development of these issues and offers answers to questions arising when we contemplate the ethics of building.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415238781
• ISBN 13: 9780415238786
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Fox Warwick