The book shines light on the problem of judgment; particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability;" and thus judge architecture through such lenses; is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline—architecture; it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed; the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better; more efficient; or more stringent codes to guide place-making; but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.
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