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The Built Environment
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This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.
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| Title of eBook: The Built Environment | |
| Release Date: 08-17-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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| Parent title | The Built Environment |
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| SKU | 9781118174586 |
| File size | 22672 |
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The Built Environment
Chapter One
The Build Environment: Definition and ScopeTom J. Bartuska
We all build and therefore make important contributions to the built environment. We design and build our lives from one experience to another. Based on those experiences, components of the built environment emerge from human needs, thoughts, and actions. Sometimes the substances of human actions are grand, and we design and plan quality life experiences for ourselves and others. At other times, human actions are shortsighted, creating uncomfortable situations that are less fit for healthy human activities and negatively impact the environments that surround us and with which we are in constant interaction.
There are many reasons to design, plan, and build. Each aspect of the built environment is created to fulfill human purpose. As those purposes and actions are manifold, so too are the reasons to design and build. Where you are sitting while reading this page, you are surrounded by hundreds of human-created objects, all contributing components of your built environment. The words on this page, this book, your chair and desk, the nearby stereo, the cell phone and Internet that connect you to many others throughout the world, even the walls, floor, and ceiling of the space are humanly made or arranged and therefore part of the built environment. These components are constructed by dozens, hundreds, even thousands of material products and production systems. Look further afield and observe the variety of obje
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