Building Green Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

• Main Author: Rademacher, Anne (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland University of California Press 2017
• Subjects: Anthropology; Environmental science, engineering & technology; environmental architecture; resilience; environmental anthropology; urban ecology; green design; urban anthropology; mumbai; urban design; urban political ecology; sustainability; Auroville; India
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean...