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ISBN 10: 1527524027
ISBN 13: 978-1527524026
Author: David A. Ness

This book challenges the status quo where profligate building and urban development is described as ‘green’ and ‘low carbon’, exposing a number of ‘elephants in the big green room’ that severely impact upon society and the environment. It questions the ethics, equity and sustainability of continued growth of the building stock in industrialized contexts amid diminishing demand, whilst the developing world is deprived of basic resources and infrastructure. Even a ‘circular’ built environment may not go far enough, when dramatic reduction in consumption of resources is required to meet ‘sufficient’ service levels. More socio-economic value may be derived from built resources by their stewardship, adaptation, reuse and equitable sharing, while ameliorating the adverse impacts of overconsumption. By taking a wider perspective of a sustainable built environment, the text—illustrated by case studies from the Olympics and nine countries—reframes the policy debate and reforms current approaches through a new theory and manifesto. It will appeal to policy makers, architects, urban designers, educators, students and green building practitioners.

The Impact of Overbuilding on People and the Planet 1st Table of contents:

Part I.
Chapter Two
Overbuilding
Capitalist Growth: is it ‘Anti-Ecological’?
The Anthropocene: A New Age for Humans
Growth, Degrowth and Sharing
Resource Consumption and Depletion
The Profligate Property Industry
Disequilibrium and “Over-Shoot”
Australian Case Studies
Chapter Three 
Impacts on People and Planet
The Impacts
Obsolescence and Decay
“The Sinking Stack”
“Rust, Dust and Bust”
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China’s “Great Wall of Debt”
The Inequities and Cultural Destruction
Rampant Urbanisation
Part II.
Chapter Four
Back to the Future: Early Theories and Practices
Overconsumption Concerns
The 3Ls concept: Long Life, Loose Fit, Low Energy
Life Cycle Thinking
“Open” and Adaptable Building
A Resource Circulating Society
Resource Efficiency
From Products to Services
Stewardship of the Building Stock
Reviving the “Soul of the City”
Resource Considerations Lost in a Carbon Haze
Chapter Five
The Green Low Carbon Movement
Greening the World: The Green Economy
Green Growth
China’s Green and Low Carbon Economy
Low Carbon and Smart Eco-Cities
Greening the Building Sector
Green Building Rating Systems
Green Skyscrapers
Are Green Buildings Somewhat Brown?
Chapter Six 
The Elephants in the Big Green Room
Carbon Neutrality: Not the Whole Story
Big and Green Don’t Sit Well Together
Beyond Efficiency and Technological Innovation: a Systems Approach
Sufficiency
Short-Term Thinking
A Narrow View of Waste Management
Managing the Stock of Resources
Insistence on Current Standards
Social and Equity Issues
Only Part of the Journey
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Part III.
Chapter Seven
Development of a Theory
Towards a Different View
The Wider Urban Context: Urban Metabolism
Integrated Systems Thinking
Conceptual Model
Total Asset Management
Aligning Assets to Service Needs
Switching our Focus to Services
Open building and “Infill Services”
New Forms of Property and Services
Making Better Use of What We Have
Improving Performance of Existing Stock
Circular Building, Adaptation and Reuse
Use Less, Much Less
Sufficiency, Saving and Sharing
Value Systems, Vision and Culture
Key Elements of the Theory
Chapter Eight 
Policy and Economic Instruments
From Theory to Practice
Transforming the Economic System
Restraining the Property Market
Fixed and Moveable Property
Economic Instruments
Tax reforms
Metrics
Summation
Part IV.
Chapter Nine
Towards a Circular, Sufficient Olympian Ideal
Introduction
Background
Current State of Play
Turning to Tokyo 2020
Sustainability Policy
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A Value System
Theory and Proposition
Examining the Feasibility
Implications for Olympic Structures and Their Legacy
Discussion
Closing Comments
Chapter Ten
A Way Forward
Time to Recognise the Elephants in the Room
Discussion of Findings
Towards a Manifesto
From a Wider Perspective to Specifics
A Pathway to Imp

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