Architecture and Social Sustainability Understanding the New Paradigm

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2002; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Activism; Architectural structure and design; Architecture; Architecture ethics; Building construction and materials; City and town planning: architectural aspects; Civil engineering, surveying and building; community-engaged design; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design; Geography; History of architecture; Housing and homelessness; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; Landscape architecture and design; public-interest design; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional and area planning; Regional geography; SDG; Social and ethical issues; Social justice; Social theory; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Spatial agency; Spatial equity; Spatial justice; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The Arts; Theory of architecture; Universal design; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Spatial agency; community-engaged design; Activism; public-interest design; SDG; Architecture ethics; Spatial equity; Social justice; Spatial justice; Universal design
• ISBN: 1032769289; 1032769319; 9781032769288; 9781032769318; 100348042X; 1040386261; 9781003480426; 9781040386262
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003480426

Architecture and Social Sustainability shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large. With chapters exploring both the urban and the building scale, this volume examines the design of buildings and urban settings to illustrate how we can create more inclusive and equitable communities through broadening our design approach. Tracing how the professionalization of architecture and urban design has shut out stakeholder input, this book offers a range of methods and theoretical ideas to re-tool the design process for better social sustainability. The book illustrates these concepts through a series of case studies that have worked around systemic inequalities, recaptured stakeholder voices, and helped promote spatial and social justice. Case studies look at reparative urban and landscape design the United States, informal market structures in Nigeria, co-designed housing for low-income communities in India and Brazil, and participatory design for housing, schools, and healthcare facilities in Europe and the U.K. Essential reading for architects and urban designers seeking alternatives to conventional practice, as well as educators and students incorporating social sustainability as a foundational design concept, Architecture and Social Sustainability ties together design thinking and action to show architecture’s potential for social change. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.