2.1.4
Sustainable Design Topics

Design and information systems

Communication and information systems:

Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being digital. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Information and social impacts on the built environment:

Mitchell, William. E-topia: "urban life, Jim--but not as we know it”. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Negroponte, Nicholas, ed. Reflections on Computer Aids to Design and Architecture. New York: Petrocelli/Charter, 1975.

Communication networks:

Mitchell, William. City of Bits: space, place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Evolution of Information systems and technology:

Eglash, R. African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
McHarg, Ian L. Design With Nature. Garden City, NY: Doubleday/Natural History Press, 1971.

Techniques:

Kasprisin, Ron; Pettinari, James. Visual Thinking for Architects and Designers: visualizing context in design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.
Longley, Paul A.; Michael F. Goodchild; David J. MacGuire; David W. Rhind. Geographic Information Systems and Science. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.

Prerequisites:

 none listed.           

(updated 1 May 2004)