Just enough : lessons from Japan for sustainable living, architecture, and design / Azby Brown.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781611720778
- 161172077X
- Lessons from Japan for sustainable living, architecture, and design
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today.
If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
Explains how during the Edo period of its history when it faced environmental problems similar to those of the 21st century, the population of Japan was able to develop a lifestyle which conserved water, energy, food, and housing, and created a sustainable economy.
"First edition published 2009 by Kodansha International."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-226) and index.
Preface to the third edition -- Foreword: just enough -- Part I: field and forest -- Part II: the sustainable city -- Part III: a life of restraint.