{"product_id":"building-green-environmental-architects-and-the-struggle-for-sustainability-in-mumbai-paperback","title":"Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Rademacher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Green\u003c\/i\u003e explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India's first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book's focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in \u003ci\u003eBuilding Green\u003c\/i\u003e act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly germane to our times, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Green\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role of urban ecology in envisioning new kinds of sustainable cities. Rademacher's rich ethnographic engagement with the practitioners of such ideas shows green design in Mumbai to be a deeply moral, intellectual, and hopeful architectural project that is often frustrated or derailed by bureaucratic and other obstacles, making optimistic dreams of a future eco-city all but impossible.--Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Rademacher's study of the pedagogy of environmental architecture is novel, her writing is lucid and engaging, and her ethnographic method is well suited for understanding how architects are taught to think about sustainable design.\"--Swati Chattopadhyay, author of\u003ci\u003e Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Situated in a city better known for its slums and spectacular real estate values, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Green\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid and rich ethnography of environmental architects in Mumbai.\"--Nikhil Anand, author of \u003ci\u003eHydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Rademacher \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology at New York University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eReigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability\u003c\/i\u003e, and the edited volume \u003ci\u003ePlaces of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457098072317,"sku":"9780520296008","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/bVFKalZHa2h3cTBMSjFmanNxR05vUT09.webp?v=1777234213","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/building-green-environmental-architects-and-the-struggle-for-sustainability-in-mumbai-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}