City of Layers: Reconfiguring the Built Environment for Sustainability

by Mark Urizar

Book Overview

Society seems to be tied irrevocably to long-term patterns of resource use, and to producing unassimilatable waste, emissions, and ongoing environmental degradation. There also are seemingly irresolvable dilemmas between humanity and nature, society and ecology, and utility and beauty, where each decision we make seems to cause some harm. To change from our present path and resolve these, we must have the courage to break from traditions and use our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469191962
• ISBN13: 9781469191966
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Xlibris Au
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"