Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World

Title: Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World
Author: Jared Green
ISBN: 9781616893002
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
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Publisher Description:
In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers--covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam--show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead.

Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including:

- Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus
- Curator Barry Bergdoll
- Educator and author Alan Berger
- Environmentalist and author Lester Brown
- Architect Rick Cook
- Urban Planner Paul Farmer
- Critic Christopher Hume
- Architect Bjarke Ingels
- Landscape designer Mia Lehrer
- Architect Rob Rogers
- Critic Inga Saffron
- Artist Janet Echelman
- Environmentalist Jemma Green