Creating Built Environments

Bridging Knowledge and Practice Divides
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8153-8538-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Built environments are complex, emergent, systemic, and require contextual analysis. They should be understood before reconsidering how professionals and researchers of the built environment are educated and trained to reduce the gap between knowledge, practice and real-world circumstances. There is an urgent need to rethink the role of policy makers, researchers, practitioners and laypeople in the construction, renovation and reuse of the built environment in order to deal with numerous environmental/ecological, economic/financial and social/ethical challenges of providing a habitat for current and future generations in a world of continual change. These challenges are too complex to be dealt with only by one discipline or profession. Combinations of different types of knowledge, knowing in praxis and tacit knowledge are needed.

This book presents and illustrates recent innovative contributions with case studies focusing on five strategic domains and the interrelations between them. These transdisciplinary contributions apply concepts, methods and tools that facilitate convergence and concerted action between participants collaborating in policy definition and project implementation. The methods and tools include experiments in living-labs, prototypes on site and virtual simulations, as well as participatory approaches including citizen science, the development of alternative scenarios, and visioning plausible futures.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawrence, Roderick J.

Lawrence, Roderick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Gebäudesicherheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART 1: STRATEGIC DOMAINS

Chapter 1: Constructing with Nature in Mind

Chapter 2: Planning for Health and Well-Being

Chapter 3: Food for Thought

Chapter 4: Housing Matters for All

Chapter 5: Creating Incremental and Radical Change

PART 2: CONCEPTUAL & METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 6: Conceptual Foundations

Chapter 7: Methodological Approaches

Über Autor(innen)

Roderick J. Lawrence, B. Arch (Hons), MLitt, DSc, has been Honorary Professor at the Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S) at the University of Geneva since 2015. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences' 'Network for transdisciplinary research' since 2009. He was the founding Director of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development at the University of Geneva from 2003 to 2015.