Aesthetic Sustainability: The Fourth Bottom Line Orienting Sustainable Buildings and Development

Norman S. Lowe

ISBN 10: 0578059762 / ISBN 13: 9780578059761

Published by Empire Advertising & Design, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aesthetic Sustainability: The Fourth Bottom Line Orienting Sustainable Buildings and Development
• Publisher: Empire Advertising & Design
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578059762
• ISBN 13: 9780578059761
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

More and more people want homes that are healthy to live in, are inexpensive to operate, and fit harmoniously within the environment. Our current linear, reductionist, mechanical and abstract cultural focus for learning and doing limits our ability to achieve this sustainability outcome.Typically missing from sustainability literature is any presentation of values respecting non-logical aesthetic feelings or concepts of beauty and harmony essential to sustaining whole and happy living. Aesthetic Sustainability introduces a new quadruple bottom line sustainability model as a means for society to best transition to green/sustainable human habitat development. It offers a whole-brain balance of both rational and aesthetic wisdom that will reorient us toward wide-scale efficient, affordable and enduring buildings that are both place-based and aesthetically pleasing.Aesthetic Sustainability brings together a wide range of new insights, ideas and innovative applications for sustainable building and development for those seeking to improve their local environment and community.