Shared spaces, shared values: ethics, design and planning of the built environment

The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared byplanning theory, architectural research by design' and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in June 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by (co-editor) Dr. Claudia Basta at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, planning theory and architecture. The scope of the seminar was highlighting shared lines of ethical inquiry among the themes discussed, in order to identify perspectives of innovative inter-disciplinary research. After the seminar all contributors have elaborated their proposed contributions. INDICE: Aesthetics as a Risk Factor in Architecture.- Value Sensitive Design.- Risk, Space and Distributive Justice.- The relevance of public space: rethinking its functional and symbolic aspects.- Architects on Value: Reducing the Good to the Beautiful?.- Incorporating ethical questions in design thinking.- Design and capabilities.- Public planning and private planning: towards a general theory of contractual communities.- Values in motion: from Futurama to cittaslow movements.- Cost-benefits, risk-benefits and beyond.- When planning succeeds, when planning fails: is the value of sustainability achievable?.- Conclusions.

• ISBN: 978-94-007-5245-0
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 230
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés