Showing papers on "Built environment published in 1981"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors define male and female principles in architecture, suggest traits of an alternative architecture shaped by women and discuss some of the main barriers and more recent opportunities which would allow women to rediscover, accept and design according to their specific goals, needs and priorities.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implementation of built-environment policies by the local state in the City of Boston in the last three decades, and the contextual limits placed on the local states in devising and implementing policies is discussed.
Abstract: The implementation of built-environment policies by the local state in the City of Boston in the last three decades is examined, and the contextual limits placed on the local state in devising and implementing policies is discussed. Two Boston neighborhoods, the Waterfront and the South End, are introduced as political spaces whose experience identifies three themes in the local state's management of possibly contentious built-environment policies: the encouragement of citizens' interest groups; the spatially differential targeting of public investment; and the awarding of advantage to large-scale capital.
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TL;DR: In considering the total range of the built environment in the U.K. a case against present attitudes to conservation is presented and particular reference is made to urban structures.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative interpretation of neighbourhood activism is offered that is rooted in a class analysis of the urban question on the contradictions of consciousness in conflict around the built environment, and it is argued that when taken as a whole, it posits a behavioural model of "neighbourhood activism" and the tendency to neglect the "urban issues" that are expressed in activist behaviours.
Abstract: There have been numerous studies of localized conflict around the built environment in the advanced capitalist societies. This literature is reviewed and it is argued that, when taken as a whole, it posits a behavioural model of ‘neighbourhood activism’. The model is often the basis for liberal interpretations of localized conflict around the built environment. Key weaknesses in the behavioural model are identified—essentially the assumption of ‘irreducible individualism’ in social research. and the tendency to neglect the ‘urban issues’ that are expressed in activist behaviours. An alternative interpretation of neighbourhood activism is offered that is rooted in a class analysis of the urban question on the contradictions of consciousness in conflict around the built environment.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a holistic approach to the realities of the post-industrial world in which natural models assert once more their primacy over the artificial is presented, using renewable natural energies as a basis for designing the built environment.
Abstract: Utilizing renewable natural energies as a basis for designing the built environment provides paradigms for a holistic approach to the realities of the postindustrial world in which natural models assert once more their primacy over the artificial.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the physical and socio-economic impacts of energy supply facilities and then discuss the ability of the planning system to respond to energy development pressures, and then turn to the less tangible problems of energy efficiency in the built environment and consider the potential for improvement together with some of the many constraints involved.
Abstract: It seems probable that planners will increasingly be involved with all aspects of the energy system. This paper attempts to outline some of the fundamental issues with which they will be concerned. It considers, first, the physical and socio‐economic impacts of energy supply facilities and then discusses the ability of the planning system to respond to energy development pressures. It then turns to the less tangible problems of energy efficiency in the built environment and considers the potential for improvement together with some of the many constraints involved.
2 citations