Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

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Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population—dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, s...