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Brings Together New And Emerging Perspectives On Sustainable Design. Combining A Series Of Well-known Theorists With Established Design Practitioners, This Book Develops A Coherent Theoretical Framework For How Theories Of Sustainability Might Engage With The Growing Practice Of Design.--back Cover. Letter To The Profession Of Architecture / Teddy Cruz -- Art, Politics, And Climate Change / Adrian Parr -- Interview With Janet Laurence On Public Art And Ecology / Adrian Parr -- The Brunel Lecture / Peter Head -- Ecological Modernism And The Making Of A New Working Class / Shannon May -- Back To The Garden: The Ecological Evolution Of The Atlantic Yards / Marshall Brown -- Building Recombinant Ecologies: Triangulating Policy, Models, And Design In Urban Infrastructure / Stephen Luoni -- Patchworks, Ecologies, And The Contemporary City / Graham Livesey -- Design From The Ground Up: Risks And Opportunities In Humanitarian Design / Michael Zaretsky -- Constructive Dialogue: Community Building As A Tool Of Social Change / Nick Seemann -- Interview With Durganand Balsavar Of Artes-human Settlements Development Collaborative / Adrian Parr -- The Politics Of The Southeast Asian Smog Crises: A Classic Case Of Rentier Capitalism At Work? / Kenneth Surin -- Designing Resilience: Sustainable Design From A Complex Systems Perspective / Carl S. Sterner -- Technique Is The Architecture Of Sustainability / Kiel Moe -- How Is Leed Faring After Five Years In Use? / Nancy B. Solomon -- Leed After Ten Years / Michael Zaretsky -- Interview With Christof Jantzen Of Behnisch Architekten / Michael Zaretsky -- Reinventing The Wheels / Amory B. Lovins -- The Sustainability Of Concepts: Knowledge And Human Interests / Claire Colebrook -- Undoing The Subject: Deleuze And The Makings Of A Sustainable Life / Jeffrey A. Bell -- Cultural Symbolizations Of A Sustainable Future / Roland Faber. Edited By Adrian Parr And Michael Zaretsky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.