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BL
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1000188
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b754558
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Orr, David W.,1944-
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| Title & Author
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Design on the edge : : the making of a high-performance building /\ David W. Orr.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0262151170
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: 0262281066
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: 1282098020
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: 1429410000
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: 6612098023
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: 9780262151177
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: 9780262281065
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: 9781282098022
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: 9781429410007
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: 9786612098024
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0262651122
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9780262651127
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
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| Contents
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I. Context: A meditation on building -- The origins of ecological design -- The design revolution: notes for practitioners -- II. Building: Origins -- The building -- Landscapes: monologues to dialogues -- The gift must must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving, and receiving -- III. Evolution: The politics of institutional change -- Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning -- The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world -- IV. Pedagogy: The origins of the ideas -- The green campus movement -- The rest of the story -- Appendix A. Oberlin College environmental policy.
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| Abstract
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Tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement.
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio)
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Oberlin College-- Buildings.
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Oberlin College-- Edificios.
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio)
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Oberlin College-- Constructions.
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Oberlin College.
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio)
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Oberlin College.
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Buildings-- Ohio-- Oberlin-- History.
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Constructions-- Ohio-- Oberlin-- Histoire.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Buildings-- Public, Commercial Industrial.
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Buildings.
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Ohio, Oberlin.
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| Dewey Classification
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727/.3077123
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| LC Classification
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LD4170.A32O77 2006eb
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