This chapter puts the case for a sustainable built environment in a global, national and regional context. It defines sustainable buildings from a number of theoretical, philosophical and typological perspectives that represent current thinking and best practice in the field. It critically analyses sustainability and the built environment on social, economic, environmental, technological and physiological grounds.

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Defining the Need for Sustainable Buildings

  • John Lester Clarke

摘要

This chapter puts the case for a sustainable built environment in a global, national and regional context. It defines sustainable buildings from a number of theoretical, philosophical and typological perspectives that represent current thinking and best practice in the field. It critically analyses sustainability and the built environment on social, economic, environmental, technological and physiological grounds.