How Long to Read Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability

How Long Does it Take to Read Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 28 minutes to read Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability by Dr Donia Zhang

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the ‘fourth pillar’ alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of ‘nature-culture-architecture’ and theorizes the concept of ‘cultural sustainability’ and ‘culturally sustainable architecture.’ It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self, along with Greek philosopher Aristotle’s physics: form, space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to evaluate the renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China since the 1990s. Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. The volume is a first opportunity to take a holistic view, to encompass eastern and western, tangible and intangible, cultures in the theorization of ‘cultural sustainability’ and ‘culturally sustainable architecture.’ It is a comprehensive contribution to architectural theory.

How long is Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability?

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability by Dr Donia Zhang is 443 pages long, and a total of 112,079 words.

This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 137% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 12 minutes to read Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability aloud.

What Reading Level is Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability?

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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