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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the...
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Cities for People
Special offer: RIBA Bookshops is offering £3 off Cities for People. Now only £28.00 (rrp. £31.00). For more than 40 years Jan...
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Sprawl Repair Manual
There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been...
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Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities
For years American urban parks fell into decay due to disinvestment, but as cities began to rebound—and evidence of the economic, cultural...
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Greening Our Built World: Costs and Benefits of Greening the Built World
This eye-opening book reports the results of a large-scale study based on extensive financial and technical analyses of more than 150 green...
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Building an Emerald City: A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programmes
Building an Emerald City is both the story of how Seattle, Washington transformed itself into a leader in sustainable 'green' building. written by...
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The Nature of a House: Building a World that Works
Is it possible for a group of the world's most respected environmental scientists to truly practice what they preach? Can their expertise in...
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Green Building Trends: Europe
The “green building revolution” is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture and design. Europe has...
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The Architecture of Community
"No architect has explored architecture's claim to universality better than Léon Krier, and it is this which makes him the most controversial...
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The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability
Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today. Yet architects, product designers, and...
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Intown Living: A Different American Dream
After decades of abandonment, cities across North America are experiencing a renaissance. A new generation is seeking greater excitement and...
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Ecological Design
Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan present a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for...
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