ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of the main mechanisms through which the offices of multinational companies in the different cities are undergoing environmental reforms in view of this local-global interface of social practices. It describes how office buildings logic is taking place and explores how the emerging ecological criteria for the design and operation of urban/transnational office-stocks is developing in an undeniable modernization process, favouring more efficient use of resources. The book explores how the theory, in its descriptive dimension, fits when exploring globalization and the environmental restructuring of transnational urban spaces. It argues that, though not to the same extent in all its aspects or in all places, ecological criteria are playing a growing role in the design and operation of urban office buildings worldwide, and much along the above lines.