Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both promine...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Basta, Claudia (Editor), Moroni, Stefano (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Values in planning and design: A process perspective on ethics in forming the built environment
  • Architects on value: Reducing the good to the beautiful?
  • A conversation about who's In? Who's out? And who answers those questions when planning for and designing the downtown?
  • The relevance of public space: rethinking its material and symbolic aspects
  • Incorporating ethical questions in design thinking
  • Aesthetics as a risk factor in architecture
  • Cost-benefit analysis and evaluating transport safety effects: A discussion from the perspective on ethics
  • Urban in/justice: A literal interpretation
  • Value sensitive design
  • Design for meaning: a non-instrumental perspective
  • Risk, space and distributive justice.-