Rural Design

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-59320-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems are inextricably coupled and engaged in continuous cycles of mutual influence and response.

This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective. To be effective and relevant, this new discipline must be founded on solid research, and practice must be based on data-driven evidence that will result in transformational changes. These directions and others will enable rural design to:

- help rural communities make land use, architectural, and aesthetic decisions that enhance their quality of life and the environment

- connect social, artistic, cultural, technological, and environmental issues that create rural place

- promote sustainable economic development for rural communities and improve human, livestock, crop, and ecosystem health

- and integrate research and practice across the many disciplines involved in rural issues to meet rural needs, provide new data, and provoke new research questions.

Written by a world leading expert in rural design, who is director and founder of the University of Minnesota Center for Rural Design, the book is oriented toward students, academics and design professionals involved with rural design at any level.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorbeck, Dewey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauökologie, Baubiologie, Bauphysik, Bauchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Rural Heritage 3. Rural Character 4. Regional Vision 5. Research Foundation 6. Rural Design Strategies 7. Interdisciplinary Connections 8. Rural Future 9. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Dewey Thorbeck is Adjunct Professor of Architecture, founder and Director of the Center for Rural Design at the University of Minnesota. A graduate of Yale University, Thorbeck won a Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. An award-winning architect he is involved in regional and national projects and published internationally.