Pragmatic Sustainability

Dispositions for Critical Adaptation

Steven A. Moore (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

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Routledge
04 July 2016

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Development studies; Sustainability; Urban & municipal planning

This second edition of Pragmatic Sustainability proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.. Rather than suggesting a single solution to the problem of how to live sustainably, this collection discusses broader approaches to social and environmental change.

Eight continuing authors and seven new ones adjust their dispositions toward rapidly changing and still unsustainable conditions, forging agreements and disagreements on five overlapping themes: the Grounds for Sustainability; the critique of Technological Culture; the need to conceive of Sustainability in Place; in Cities; finally asking how should we reimagine the fraught relationship between Civil Society, Industry and Regulation? Editor Steven A. Moore asks how a set of ideas now more than a century old remains relevant. A partial answer can be found in reconstructing the very modern ideas confronted by those who came to call themselves Pragmatists at the beginning of the twentieth century—evolution, ecology and design. Moore argues that we have yet to develop dispositions in theory and practice that critically integrate these ideas into sustainable development.

In sum, this new edition provides a fresh and hopeful look at the wicked problems deliberated by almost anyone engaged in adapting to the always changing conditions of the built world.

Edited by: Steven A. Moore (University of Texas at Austin USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781138123922
ISBN 10: 1138123927
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 04 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he teaches design and courses related to the philosophy, history, and application of sustainable technology. He is Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Design and Co-Founder of the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development. Moore is a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a Loeb Fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the recipient of an Individual Scholar Award from the National Science Foundation, and is the author of many articles, book chapters, and seven books on the topic of sustainable architecture and urbanism.