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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: ethics and the built environment | |
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| The green imperative--and its vicissitudes | |
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| Greening urban society | |
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| The urban age | |
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| Cities as superorganisms | |
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| Urban sprawl | |
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| The ecological footprint of cities | |
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| The metabolism of cities | |
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| Are solutions possible? | |
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| Conditions for sustainable development | |
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| Policies for sustainability | |
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| Smart cities | |
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| The legacy of Habitat II | |
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| Cultural development | |
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| London's ecological footprint | |
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| The metabolism of Greater London | |
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| Building ethics into the built environment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethical issues: a case study approach | |
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| Identifying ethical dimensions in the built environment | |
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| Green building: establishing principles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Greenwash | |
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| Consumer awareness of green building issues? | |
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| Establishing principles | |
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| Social and ethical context | |
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| Green self-interest and costs | |
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| Self-interest and energy efficiency | |
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| The self-interest of healthy buildings | |
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| Broader environmental impact--the ethical case | |
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| Construction industry attitudes | |
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| The environmental movement | |
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| The way forward? | |
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| Building, global warming and ethics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Knowledge of global warming | |
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| Different ethical positions | |
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| The building design problem | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Contested constructions: the competing logics of green buildings and ethics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What makes a building green? A conventional view | |
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| Green buildings as social constructions | |
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| The competing logics of green buildings and ethics | |
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| Green buildings as technique-the ecological and smart logics | |
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| Green building as appropriate form--the aesthetic and symbolic logics | |
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| Green building as social concern--the comfort and community logics | |
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| Green buildings as social expressions of competing green values | |
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| Conclusions--green buildings and the ethical challenge | |
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| Building with greater sensitivity to people(s) and places | |
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| Social inclusion and the sustainable city | |
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| Transformative architecture: a synthesis of ecological and participatory design | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Systems, interdependence, interrelatedness | |
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| When participation meets ecology | |
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| Participatory design | |
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| Ecological design | |
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| Transformative architecture | |
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| The healing transformation | |
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| Transformation to ownership | |
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| The architect's transformation | |
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| Ethics and vernacular architecture | |
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| Ethical building in the everyday environment: a multilayer approach to building and place design | |
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| Can 'spirit of place' be a guide to ethical building? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The proliferation of definitions | |
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| Major questions to ask of any definitions | |
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| Shades of meaning | |
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| Possible ways forward | |
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| Steps towards a theory of the ethics of the built environment | |
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| The conceptual basis of building ethics | |
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| A process model of building | |
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| Values in ethics | |
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| Values and value judgment | |
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| Values and value judgments in building | |
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| Value systems | |
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| Valuation and worth | |
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| Some value-related issues in building | |
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| How to think about the ethics of architecture | |
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| Why does architecture require a dedicated ethical analysis? | |
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| Current models of addressing ethical problems in architecture | |
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| An analytic ethics of architecture | |
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| The Taj Mahal and the spider's web | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The artefactual and the natural | |
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| Defining 'artefact' | |
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| Aristotle's four causes | |
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| Ontological difference between the built environment and the natural environment | |
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| Applying the last person argument | |
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| Appreciating the Taj Mahal and appreciating the spider's web | |
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| Ethical arguments about the aesthetics of architecture | |
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| Introduction: ethics, aesthetics and architectural criticism | |
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| Three ethical criticisms of the aesthetics of architecture | |
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| Aesthetic attention to the whole of a building, and its details, as an ethic for architectural design | |
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| Towards an ethics (or at least a value theory) of the built environment | |
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| The question of the ethics of the built environment | |
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| Responsive cohesion as the foundation of value theory in general and, hence, ethics in particular | |
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| Responsive cohesion and the built environment | |
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| Conclusion: towards an agenda for the ethics of the built environment | |
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| Index | |