Harriet Bulkeley & McKenna Davis 
Urban Nature [PDF ebook] 
New Directions for City Futures

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a highly visual account of historical, contemporary and …

Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America.Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urb …

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect’s landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of arc …

This book examines the role that bioremediation can play in the detoxification of soil, water, and air to improve environmental and human health, with a specific focus on heavy metals and radionuclid …

Leadership and sustainability have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context over the years, but they have yet to be addressed together. The real impact of legisl …

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both ”lived” and ”imagined” spaces. In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gend …

Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India”s fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. …

Are you unsure about:

• the current US legal environment with respect to BIM and VDC?
• the evolving standards of care for design and construction professionals using BIM and VDC?
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Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50, 000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength o …