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Lessons from Traditional Architecture: Achieving Climatic Buildings by Studying the Past
The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. This has been rekindled by the...
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Zero Carbon Homes: A Road Map
Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...
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Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design
This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting...
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Children and Their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and Their Urban...
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Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings
Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings aims to provide a guide to members of design and masterplanning teams on how to deliver sustainable...
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Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces Between Buildings
Urban Microclimate bridges the gap between climatology research and applied urban design. It provides architects and urban design...
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The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability
How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is to use an energy...
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Heat Islands: Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas
This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are...
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The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings
Tall buildings represent one of the most energy-intensive architectural typologies, while at the same time offering the high density work and...
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: Second edition
Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world. Governments and...
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Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Lessons from Aceh
On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and...
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The Placemakers Guide to Building Community
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban...
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Transforming Markets in the Built Environment: Adapting to Climate Change
There is an urgent need to build human capacity to make the often vulnerable and exposed buildings and communities we live and work in more...
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Passive Solar Architecture. Pocket Reference
Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a...
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Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental Sustainability
Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public...
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Building for a Changing Climate: The Challenge for a Changing Climate
There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is...
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Sustainable Solar Housing [2 Volume Set]
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different...
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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 1: Strategies and Solutions
This volume presents strategies and solutions, offering the reader a solid basis for developing concepts, considering environmental and economic...
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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 2: Exemplary Buildings and Technologies
Thisvolumeoffers a detailed analysis of exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines the various technologies employed to...
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Planning for Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners
Climate change is changing the context of planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened the environmental dimension of spatial planning...
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