Stewart Brand 
How Buildings Learn [EPUB ebook] 

This book provides practicing planners with the knowledge of how to bring real world planning projects to a successful and efficient. It applies the five process groups of project management as ident …

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three »megapolitan» areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. T …

Streets Reconsidered is a fundamental rethinking of America»s streets. It explores the future of streets and what America»s roadways could be if they were designed for living, instead of just drivi …

The Protected Vista draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy, highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over t …

This practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discu …

Engineers on major building projects continue to echo the sentiment that ‘painting amounts to 10% of the job, but provides 90% of the problems’. This second edition of Steelwork Corrosion Control pro …

Lean-Led Hospital Design explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare‘s most persistent …

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when archit …

Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design. The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 ca …

Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment. Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce, const …