The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

by Chris Abel

Despite local and international efforts promoting sustainable development and design, little progress has been made in reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases and averting catastrophic climate change. In his wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author contends that, underlying the inertia is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technological culture and its energy-hungry products...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071909612X
• ISBN13: 9780719096129
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"