Living Architecture, Living Cities by Day, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface PART I: Life-supporting environment: method or approach?

1. The environmental crisis: ecological or experiential?

Our environment: doubly sick Sustainability: multi-dimensional, multi-layer Urban sustainability: a survival issue Efficiency or multiple aims? Attitudinal change Damaged world or damaging process?

2. Anticipating coming unknowns

New challenges: new thinking Building for an unknown future

3. Environmental impacts

The big picture Choice: fact-led or feeling-led? People-building interaction

PART II: Experiential environment

4. Perceived reality: sensory experience

Factual reality and perceived reality Sensory nutrition Different senses: different environmental engagement Visual climate: feelingless or feeling-rich? Auditory climate Sub-sensory influences Mono-sensory experience, multi-sensory ambience

5. Soul and spirit nourishment

Non-physical environmental influences Spirit-nurture: embodied spirit Place-mood Soul-nourishment: lessons from the past Ensouling places: process aspects Archetypal nourishment: nature-connection Beauty: indulgent luxury or spirit necessity?

PART III: Place: the setting for everyday life

6. Placemaking for people

Place: enclosure and activity Shape, force and gesture Spatial scale Building scale Repetition and identity Life-formed space: thought-formed space

7. Place: identity, continuity and integrity

Place: identity and meaning Form and style: function, meaning and effect Localizing identity Locating ourselves in time Continuity issues: new and old Design codes or form-generators?

8. Design for community

Cities: collections of buildings or social frameworks? Community formation: a process Town form: a community factor? Community stability Hierarchies of social scale Public life: public places Public space in the motor age Filling places with life Lingerability Re-establishing vitality Regeneration

9. Getting around cities

Traffic: urban lifeblood or stranglehold? Parking dilemmas Out-of-sight parking: above ground and below Multi-mode travel Cyclable cities Walkable cities

10. Connectivity

Connectivity, walkability and community Density Space and privacy

11. Use, space and life

Mixed-use, mono-use and multi-use Different uses: different relationships Retail needs Workplace needs Residential needs Child-friendly environment Elder-friendly environment

12. Design for security

Crime, society and environment Design for neighbourhood safety Security by community Burglar-proofing Gating Psychological measures: signals Non-offensive defences

PART IV: Processes, drivers and outcomes

13. Settlement form, space and life

Layout: lessons from history Process-led settlement-formation Attitude, values and space-formation

14. Design processes: How, by whom, how fast?

Place design: professional or participatory? Consensus Design Time stream Time: cost and value

15. Economic vigour as process-driver and shaper

Place-improvement: an incremental process Growth sequence Growth generators

16. The primary change-driver: money

Place-improvement: how can it happen? Enhancing location: meeting the needs of place Places or buildings Cost, price and value Affordability

17. Sustainability and economics

Viability, profitability and ethics Motives and consequences Is sustainability economical? Making the transition: how?

PART V: Living with a changing world

18. Future climate: future issues

Global warming: unpredictable weather, unpredictable effects Heat issues Storm issues: hurricanes Wet issues: floods

19. Design with the elements

Ecology: the elements and us Matter Water Air Warmth: energy or nutrient? Elemental interactions

20. Ecological design: Energy aspects

Power Heat: produced, conserved and reused Solar heat Embodied energy

21. Cyclic systems

Cyclic, linear and life-energy flows Aquatic cycles The nutrient cycle Solid waste Money flow

22. Habitat

Building longevity Land consumption Bio-habitat

23. Bio-climatic placemaking

Thermal environment, energy and wellbeing Microclimate Winds: their characteristics, disadvantages and advantages Wind protection Life, space and climate

24. Design for demanding climates

Cold climates Hot climates: minimizing heat gain Design for heat: dry or humid Hot and cold combinations Greened cities

25. Everything change: future-proofing

Design for the future: resilience Peak-oil: post-oil Food security Trauma or improvement?

26. Material applications: Eco-towns, eco-projects and eco-regeneration

Eco-urbanism Lessons from eco-towns Eco-converting cities

27. New situation: new approaches

Consciousness-changing Design and nature

28. Sustainability or sustenance?

Matter and spirit Sustainability and sustenance

Illustration credits Acknowledgements Other books by Christopher Day Index

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