The Sustainable City
Today, the way ecology is being incorporated into architecture has evolved considerably.
Sustainable architecture, or green architecture, aims to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by enhancing efficiency and moderating the use of materials, energy, and space.
Spewing carbon dioxide, generating masses of waste, and consuming alarming quantities of energy and water, our cities place a heavy burden on both the global environment and the local ecosystem.
Architecture itself has a tremendous impact on the environment.
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pfff! listening to the line from Fisher; “city’s are where life is, where is man’s home, nature is not home to man, city’s are home to man…..the place for freedom of free thinking and free speech…” I have been planning my escape from living in a city for a long time. more now than ever as these “designer” architects come up with such ugly buildings…there’s just no more charm.
I guess I’m disappointed with this doc as these urban planners have very ugly sterile ideas.
As a student of social ecology, many knowledge instilling perceptions on how we, as a society of humans beings of this Earth, have nearly lost all our earthly instincts that keep us in harmony with our real Home and House, our Planet and of how living and growing together in “green buildings” can help teach us our lost ways, as long as we are willing to learn. :)
@anne V: I can understand your view on the non-aesthetically pleasing aspects of the buildings shown in this video but please keep an open and innovative mind. There is an American architect, named Michael Reynolds, in New Mexico who builds sustainable buildings he calls “Earthships” that I find very cozy and charming as he typically designs homes rather than huge skyscrappers and business parks.