Product Description

Presents inspiring and detailed examples of integrated systems design thinking by many of the foremost designers in the field. Covers applications in industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and agriculture, and energy and resource use. Softcover. Hardcover available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #507148 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"Part theoretical textbook, part manual, this sourcebook provides a valuable point of reference for all those striving to achieve a greater sustainability in their design and development work...In reflecting the complexity and inter-disciplinary skills and expertise that need to be mustered to actively address issues of sustainable design the book is packed with tables, lists of indicators, principles, checklists and references that lead the reader on through each topic. The structure of the book, true to the nature of a sourcebook, favours regular reference and referral on specific topics rather than a single 'linear' cover-to-cover read. "Design for Sustainability" should enjoy a long shelf life. It makes a valuable contribution in advancing the practice of sustainable design from a periphery activity to a core discipline." -- International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism

About the Author
Janis Birkeland worked consecutively as artist, advocacy planner, architect, urban designer, city planner and attorney in San Francisco before entering academia in Australia. She has authored about 100 publications on built environment and sustainability and wrote the highly successful and widely adopted Design for Sustainability (Earthscan, 2002). She is now Professor of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Customer Reviews

A great read and also good as a course text!
This type of book is well overdue. It covers both the theoretical and practical side of sustainable design and is very well set out. It is an excellent reference book and covers the full spectrum of sustainable design issues, which affect us all!

thought provouking
design for sustainability is defnitly a sourcebook for sustainable designers.it spanes through every aspect of our existance and ofers a new way of living it sustainably. from hemp clothes to earth building and even touches thinking patterns of design, giving the profetional designer not only eco-logical solutions but new perspectives to the process of design.
this book opened my mind to new pathes of thought and action.