2.1.2
Sustainable Design Topics

Design and cultural systems

Human systems and dynamics:

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979.
Brand, Stewart. The Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999.
Fuller, R. Buckminster. Cosmography: a posthumous scenario for the future of humanity. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Orr, David. Earth in Mind: on education, environment, and the human prospect. Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 1994.
Orr, David. Ecological Literacy: Education And The Transition To A Postmodern World. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Orr, David. The Campus and Environmental Responsibility. San Francisco, CA.: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
Orr, David. The Nature of Design: ecology, culture, and human intention. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Socio-cultural issues and the built environment:

Hall, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Random House, 1992.
Lym, Glenn Robert. A Psychology of Building: how we shape and experience our structured spaces. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Newman, Oscar. Defensible Space: crime prevention through urban design. New York, Macmillan, 1972.

Patterns and scale in human communities:

Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1989], 1934.

Cultural history and change in the built environment:

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: what happens after they're built. New York, NY: Viking, 1994.
Rapoport, Amos. House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Techniques:

Marcus, Clare Cooper; Wendy Sarkissian. Housing as if people mattered: site design guidelines for medium-density family housing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
McCamant, Kathryn;Charles Durrett. Cohousing: a contemporary approach to housing ourselves. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1994.

Prerequisites:

 none listed.       

(updated 1 May 2004)