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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

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Introduction: What Gives You Hope For The Future?(p. 9)
• Abomey(p. 14)
• Acequias(p. 16)
• Angkor Wat(p. 18)
• Ann Demeulemeester Shop(p. 20)
• Las Arboledas(p. 22)
• Artists for Humanity(p. 24)
• Bedzed(p. 26)
• Before I Die(p. 28)
• Biomimicry and Biodesign(p. 30)
• Braddock, Pennsylvania(p. 32)
• The British Ambassador's Residence(p. 34)
• Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map(p. 36)
• The Burnham Plan(p. 38)
• Butaro Hospital(p. 40)
• Calw(p. 42)
• Central Park(p. 44)
• Changing Course(p. 46)
• Chattanooga(p. 48)
• Christie Walk(p. 50)
• The City(p. 52)
• City Repair(p. 54)
• Coalitions(p. 56)
• Company(p. 58)
• Copenhagen's Harbor(p. 60)
• Densification(p. 62)
• Ducha Halo(p. 64)
• Eco-Lodges(p. 66)
• El Porvenir Social Kindergarten(p. 68)
• Emscher Park(p. 70)
• Ending Alarm Fatigue(p. 72)
• Estuaire(p. 74)
• Freiburg(p. 76)
• Fruitvale Village(p. 78)
• General Mills Sculpture Garden(p. 80)
• Grand Paris(p. 82)
• Green City, Clean Waters(p. 84)
• Green Infrastructure(p. 86)
• Guadalupe River Park(p. 88)
• The High Line(p. 90)
• Holding Pattern(p. 92)
• Illuminate(p. 94)
• Inhotim(p. 96)
• Khoo Teck Puat Hospital(p. 98)
• The Leichtag Foundation Ranch(p. 100)
• The Lightning Field(p. 102)
• Lion's Park Playscape(p. 104)
• Local Code / Real Estates(p. 106)
• London Congestion Pricing(p. 108)
• Maison Dufort(p. 110)
• Malmö(p. 112)
• Many Small-Scale Projects(p. 114)
• Media Tic(p. 116)
• Merian Map of Paris(p. 118)
• Metro Libraries(p. 120)
• The Midtown Greenway(p. 122)
• Mushroom Board(p. 124)
• Newport Beach Civic Center and Park(p. 126)
• Nos Quedamos(p. 128)
• Our Kaka'ako(p. 130)
• Park(ing) Day(p. 132)
• Pedestrian Zones(p. 134)
• Primary School in Gando(p. 136)
• Project Row Houses(p. 138)
• Rebuilidng Center(p. 140)
• Riverwalk(p. 142)
• Rome(p. 144)
• San Francisco Bay(p. 146)
• The Sand Engine(p. 148)
• Schueblock(p. 150)
• Serenbe(p. 152)
• Seven Dials(p. 154)
• Sherbourne Comons(p. 156)
• Sims Municipal Recycling Facility(p. 158)
• Solar Roadways(p. 160)
• Stellar Apartments(p. 162)
• Tennessee Valley Authority(p. 164)
• Termite: Mounds(p. 166)
• Unité D'Habitation(p. 168)
• Vernacular Architecture(p. 170)
• Wind Metta Complexes(p. 172)
• Image Credits(p. 175)
• Acknowledgments(p. 176)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Jared Green writes about cities and design for numerous publications. He is Senior Communications Manager, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and is editor of the organization's blog The Dirt .