Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World

✍ Scribed by Green, Jared(Editor);Kushner, Marc(Contributor);Metz, Tracy(Contributor);Mossop, Elizabeth(Contributor)

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

InDesigned for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam—show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead.

✦ Subjects

Cities;Urban Planning;Nonfiction;Urban Studies;Environment;Sustainability