Cleaner, greener, healthier: a prescription for stronger Canadian environmental laws and policies
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In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier David Boyd sets out to remedy Canada's environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canada's environmental laws and policies with those in the US, Australia, and the EU, delivering a provocative(...)
décembre 2015
Cleaner, greener, healthier: a prescription for stronger Canadian environmental laws and policies
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In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier David Boyd sets out to remedy Canada's environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canada's environmental laws and policies with those in the US, Australia, and the EU, delivering a provocative diagnosis of the causes of Canada's second-rate standards. Finally, he prescribes legal remedies that will enable Canada to catch up with the world's environmental leaders while delivering substantial health and economic benefits.
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Inondations, incendies, effondrements, explosions industrielles… bien des territoires sont marqués par des aléas naturels ou technologiques qui conditionnent leur développement. Ces contraintes sont aussi des ressources, témoins de l’identité des lieux. Lorsque le projet de territoire intègre l’aléa comme élément fondateur, la difficulté est souvent une chance. Penser la(...)
Atout risques : des territoires exposés se réinventent
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Inondations, incendies, effondrements, explosions industrielles… bien des territoires sont marqués par des aléas naturels ou technologiques qui conditionnent leur développement. Ces contraintes sont aussi des ressources, témoins de l’identité des lieux. Lorsque le projet de territoire intègre l’aléa comme élément fondateur, la difficulté est souvent une chance. Penser la ville avec l’aléa conduit à être plus inventif, à proposer des espaces urbains moins génériques, mieux ancrés sur leur sol. Ceci facilite le décloisonnement des certitudes et des métiers ; la règle et le projet collaborent très en amont. Cela profite à tous. À l’exemple des fleuves, qui ont été d’abord de féconds bienfaiteurs, offrant eau, connexions et paysages aux villes qu’ils traversent, l’aléa devient un atout.
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Il ne fait plus de doute que le changement climatique est très largement dû aux activités des pays industrialisés. Si les émissions de gaz carbonique et d'autres gaz à effet de serre ne sont pas fortement réduites dans les décennies à venir, il en résultera des dégâts immenses et irréversibles. Ce livre pluridisciplinaire rassemble des points de vue scientifiques et(...)
février 2007, Paris
Le changement climatique : aubaine ou désastre ?
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Il ne fait plus de doute que le changement climatique est très largement dû aux activités des pays industrialisés. Si les émissions de gaz carbonique et d'autres gaz à effet de serre ne sont pas fortement réduites dans les décennies à venir, il en résultera des dégâts immenses et irréversibles. Ce livre pluridisciplinaire rassemble des points de vue scientifiques et politiques de sensibilités diverses, tous convaincus que la lutte contre le réchauffement de la planète est l'urgence de l'urgence et peut offrir l'occasion d'une conversion salutaire de notre système économique. Dans la situation historique, à nulle autre pareille, que nous vivons, c'est l'avenir de l'humanité en tant que telle qui se joue. Il est indispensable d'ouvrir les yeux sur le désastre et de saisir l'aubaine qui se présente à nous.
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février 2007, Paris
Log houses of the world
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Long considered the apotheosis of rustic kitsch, the log house actually has a rich architectural pedigree. Since the late 19th century, a surprising number of architects, along with their artisan-builder counterparts, have transformed the simple pioneer log cabin into a supremely crafted work of high art. "Log houses of the world" is the first-ever chronological survey of(...)
octobre 2006, New York
Log houses of the world
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Long considered the apotheosis of rustic kitsch, the log house actually has a rich architectural pedigree. Since the late 19th century, a surprising number of architects, along with their artisan-builder counterparts, have transformed the simple pioneer log cabin into a supremely crafted work of high art. "Log houses of the world" is the first-ever chronological survey of the greatest examples of log houses designed in Europe and the United States from 1890 to the present. Included are photographs, plans, and little-known drawings - most never before published - from such celebrated Modern-era architects as Eliel Saarinen, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, and others. The result is both a tour of many homes, and an important vehicle for garnering for these houses the popular recognition, critical and otherwise, that they deserve.
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Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection(...)
Resilient city: landscape architecture for climate change
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Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
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The internationally active office White Arkitekter is dedicated to the renewable material wood and ecologically and socially sustainable architecture. In 2016, they designed a 20-storey building in Skellefteå in Sweden that will be one of the world’s tallest timber high-rise structures. Sara Kulturhus – a new cultural centre right in the core of the city combining(...)
septembre 2021
White Arkitekter : a heart of wood
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The internationally active office White Arkitekter is dedicated to the renewable material wood and ecologically and socially sustainable architecture. In 2016, they designed a 20-storey building in Skellefteå in Sweden that will be one of the world’s tallest timber high-rise structures. Sara Kulturhus – a new cultural centre right in the core of the city combining theatre, museum, art gallery, public library, conference centre and hotel – opens this year. The building, designed to reduce embodied as well as operational carbon emissions, is mainly made of wood grown in the regional boreal forests. Solar panels and efficient energy systems further contribute to minimising the project's climate footprint.
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Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in an illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale.
mars 2012
Sustainable, affordable prefab : the ecoMOD project
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Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in an illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale.
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From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years, the book looks at the “urban” aspects of these settlements. In contrast to the standard way of seeing refugee camps as scenes(...)
From camp to city : refugee camps of the Western Sahara
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From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years, the book looks at the “urban” aspects of these settlements. In contrast to the standard way of seeing refugee camps as scenes of human misery and despair, the examination concentrates on how people live and dwell in refugee camps, on how they work, move around, and enjoy themselves, and looks at the spaces and structures that are created in the process. With numerous images and texts, individual aspects of urban life are presented and analyzed in the different chapters. As an examination of a “borderline case” of urbanity, the publication does not ignore the problematic aspects of this theme, but on the contrary: its potential explosiveness is further underscored by the focus on a “vocabulary of the urban.” It allows an understanding of the camps as a political project. The publication is based on research studies of the ETH Studio Basel, Institute of Contemporary Urbanism at the ETH Zurich.
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Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of junk, Gillian Whiteley re-thinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalized culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations and the telling of a panoply of trash narratives. Found(...)
Junk : art and the politics of trash
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Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of junk, Gillian Whiteley re-thinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalized culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations and the telling of a panoply of trash narratives. Found and ephemeral materials are primarily associated with assemblage - object-based practices which emerged in the mid-1950s and culminated in the seminal exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" in New York in 1961. With its deployment of the discarded and the filthy, Whiteley argues, assemblage has been viewed as a disruptive, transgressive artform that engaged with narratives of social and political dissent, often in the face of modernist condemnation as worthless kitsch. In the Sixties, parallel techniques flourished in Western Europe, the US and Australia but the idiom of assemblage and the re-use of found materials and objects - with artist as bricoleur - is just as prevalent now. This is a timely book that uncovers the etymology of waste and the cultures of disposability within these economies of wealth.
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Les ouvrages sélectionnés dans ce livre font partie d'une large palette d'exemples des divers usages du bois dans l'architecture résidentielle. Des projets clairement détaillés par ses auteurs sont ici exposés. La plupart des travaux, réalisés dans le monde entier, illustrent particulièrement le style des constructions Nord-américaines. Tous ces exemples partagent un(...)
janvier 2010
Les plus belles maisons en bois
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Les ouvrages sélectionnés dans ce livre font partie d'une large palette d'exemples des divers usages du bois dans l'architecture résidentielle. Des projets clairement détaillés par ses auteurs sont ici exposés. La plupart des travaux, réalisés dans le monde entier, illustrent particulièrement le style des constructions Nord-américaines. Tous ces exemples partagent un même degré de qualité architecturale, notamment en ce qui concerne l'utilisation innovantrice du bois et du fort compromis de ses créateurs envers le respect de l'environnement.