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• catalog abstract "In Gray World, Green Heart, Robert Thayer identifies three conflicting forces - topophilia (love of land and nature), technophilia (affection for and dependence upon technology), and technophobia (fear of the negative side-effects of technology) - which he believes are at the heart of the current environmental crisis. These forces, he contends, coexist yet often compete within each of us, giving rise to "an oppressive sense of connection between our lifestyles, the immediate surroundings in which we live, play, and work, and the environmental and social problems looming in the ... world at large." Paradoxically, according to Thayer, we compound the problem, appeasing our guilty consciences by hiding air conditioners behind redwood fences and using consumptive technologies to build fake waterfalls, volcanoes, and other superficial simulations of nature. Thayer offers a viable alternative to hollow, symbolic solutions to our environmental crisis in the form of sustainable landscapes. What he gives us, in fact, is nothing less than a theoretical framework upon which to build a future in which technologies serve rather than dominate nature. Thayer proposes a piece-by-piece transformation of our world from one based on resource consumption and "landscape guilt" to a network of interrelated, community-based living systems that operate in harmony with one another: sustainable landscapes that would conserve resources and preserve their essential ecological characteristics. Richly supported with concrete examples of how technological systems might be transformed, this book focuses on the unself-conscious public and private spaces that define our everyday landscape from coast to coast. Numerous illustrations and diagrams clarify both the problems that face us and the solutions Thayer offers. For all planners, environmental designers, educators, and students alike, Gray World, Green Heart offers a bold vision of landscape which transcends the conflict between technological determinism and resilient public affection for nature. It challenges us to embrace a future in which ecological functions are served by sustainable technology and delightfully expressed in the landscape itself.".
• catalog contributor b5740177.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "For all planners, environmental designers, educators, and students alike, Gray World, Green Heart offers a bold vision of landscape which transcends the conflict between technological determinism and resilient public affection for nature. It challenges us to embrace a future in which ecological functions are served by sustainable technology and delightfully expressed in the landscape itself.".
• catalog description "For love of land and nature -- Technophilia and landscape -- Technophobia and landscape guilt -- Gray world, green heart -- Dimensions of technology in the landscape -- Dynamics and philosophical dilemmas -- The changing nature of nature -- Reality, unreality, and hyperreality -- New symbols of possibility -- The experience of sustainable landscapes.".
• catalog description "In Gray World, Green Heart, Robert Thayer identifies three conflicting forces - topophilia (love of land and nature), technophilia (affection for and dependence upon technology), and technophobia (fear of the negative side-effects of technology) - which he believes are at the heart of the current environmental crisis. These forces, he contends, coexist yet often compete within each of us, giving rise to "an oppressive sense of connection between our lifestyles, the immediate surroundings in which we live, play, and work, and the environmental and social problems looming in the ... world at large." Paradoxically, according to Thayer, we compound the problem, appeasing our guilty consciences by hiding air conditioners behind redwood fences and using consumptive technologies to build fake waterfalls, volcanoes, and other superficial simulations of nature. Thayer offers a viable alternative to hollow, symbolic solutions to our environmental crisis in the form of sustainable landscapes. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-342) and index.".
• catalog description "What he gives us, in fact, is nothing less than a theoretical framework upon which to build a future in which technologies serve rather than dominate nature. Thayer proposes a piece-by-piece transformation of our world from one based on resource consumption and "landscape guilt" to a network of interrelated, community-based living systems that operate in harmony with one another: sustainable landscapes that would conserve resources and preserve their essential ecological characteristics. Richly supported with concrete examples of how technological systems might be transformed, this book focuses on the unself-conscious public and private spaces that define our everyday landscape from coast to coast. Numerous illustrations and diagrams clarify both the problems that face us and the solutions Thayer offers. ".
• catalog extent "xviii, 352 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Gray world, green heart.".
• catalog identifier "047157273X :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Gray world, green heart.".
• catalog isPartOf "Wiley series in sustainable design".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
• catalog relation "Gray world, green heart.".
• catalog subject "363.7 20".
• catalog subject "Environmental degradation.".
• catalog subject "GE140 .T48 1994".
• catalog subject "Human ecology.".
• catalog subject "Sustainable design.".
• catalog subject "Sustainable development.".
• catalog subject "Technology Social aspects.".
• catalog tableOfContents "For love of land and nature -- Technophilia and landscape -- Technophobia and landscape guilt -- Gray world, green heart -- Dimensions of technology in the landscape -- Dynamics and philosophical dilemmas -- The changing nature of nature -- Reality, unreality, and hyperreality -- New symbols of possibility -- The experience of sustainable landscapes.".
• catalog title "Gray world, green heart : technology, nature, and sustainable landscape / Robert L. Thayer, Jr.".
• catalog type "text".