This and the previous issue of Harvard Design Magazine are devoted to questioning and overcoming the commonly held assumption that the pursuit of sustainability and the pursuit of pleasure are in tension if not opposition. Here, urbanism, landscape architecture and the design of objects are studied. Sustainability is put in parentheses in the title because this term is contested and ambiguous: usually referring to technological prowess in reducing energy consumption and natural damage, the world should also imply much broader realities, including the social, the cultural, the economic, and the psychological—the ecological in its fullest sense. The city, in this view, is an endlessly independent network.
31: (Sustainability) + Pleasure, Vol. II: Landscapes, Urbanism, and Products F/W 2009
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Table of Contents
Essays
City Trees for Sustainability and Delight
Design Against Nature
Does Our Technology Make Our Past Irrelevant to Our Future?
Dubai in Hindsight: Souq Cartographies
Eutopia Now!
Green Pleasures
Local Food Is Not Always the Most Sustainable
Prodesse et Delectare
Promiscuous Patterns, Synthetic Architecture
Proximate Utopia, or the Semblance of the Future
Sexy and Good: Sustainable Product Design
Slow Landscapes
The Natural History of Foresaken Spaces
The Vertical Forest and New Urban Comfort
Toxic Landscapes
Varied Tree Shade for New Urban Pleasures
Reviews
Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic by Dell Upton
The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making by Eran Ben-Joseph
The Utzon Logbooks by Jørn Utzon
