Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general natural environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.This book should be of interest to architects; students of building and building design; environmentalists; politicians and general readers with an interest in ethics.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. ALMOST completely adoring The Adoring AudienceBy A CustomerThe Adoring Audience is a collection of essays by academics;journalists and other writers about fans; fandom and fan behaviour. All articles shed light in one way or another on the phenomenon of fandom from a number of different persepctives: John Fiske writes about The Cultural Economy of Fandom; Cheryl Cline looks at female rock n roll fans; Lisa Lewis examines fan stories on film; and Joli Jensen alerts us to the dangers of dismissing ardent fans as pathological. Both Elvis fans and Beatlemania come under the microscope too. The articles are presented without apology or explanation or with any idea that there should be a cohesion of position across the entire volume (unless of course it is that fandom is interesting!). As a result; a chapter which clearly pathologises fans follows on from an article which states that it is unhelpful to do precisely that. There are many contradictions in the ideas in this book. I liked that. It really made you examine the arguments put forward more rigorously. I think I am only rating it a four star book because I dont really feel it is the last word on this subject. It was a great place to start to think about fans and fandom; but at the end of it I did not feel as though the experience of being a fan and the taboos associated with fandom in society had been emptied of charge and meaning and mystery. I think perhaps my favourite chapter was Fred and Judy Vermorels A Glimpse of the Fan Factory - a collection of extracts from fan letters to celebrities like Kate Bush and David Bowie; excerpts from radio and television shows too - in which fans unguardedly write and speak their minds about their fan objects. Although some of the writers are clearly deeply disturbed and unusual - and some bizarrely unselfconscious and naive - some of these letters have a curious beauty and power which is difficult to describe . . . little pieces of peoples hearts and lives; sent out to the adored they will never meet. Amazing reading.