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The Visual Dictionary of Architecture
The Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms associated with, and used within, the field of architecture. Over 250 architectural terms are explained and contextualised in this handy text, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary architecture. The dictionary covers traditional terms still in …
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- 9782940447060
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The Key to Sustainable CitiesMeeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
Most of the world’s population now live in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies, municipalities are so busy solving current problems, they don’t have the time or resources to plan effective action for sustainability. The Key to Sustainable Cities uses the principles of system dynamics to demonstrate how today’s problems were yesterday…
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- 9781550923971
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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The Architect's BrainNeuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture
The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. * Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological…
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- 9781118078679
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An Introduction to Architectural Theory1968 to the Present
A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval. * The first comprehensive and critical hi…
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The Handbook of Design for Sustainability
Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made environment - how it is produced, how it is used, and how long it endures. Despite some fort…
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- 9781472539014
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Timeless Landscape DesignThe Four-Part Master Plan
In Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, renowned landscape architects Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan" -- a unique method they've perfected over the past two-and-a-half decades of creating award-winning gardens and yards for clients.
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- 9781423614036
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- 1 online resource (192 pages)
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Medical and Dental Space PlanningA Comprehensive Guide to Design, Equipment, …
THE UPDATED DEFINITIVE REFERENCE ON MEDICAL AND DENTAL OFFICE DESIGN Medical and Dental Space Planning is an indispensable guide to the myriad of details that make a medical or dental practice efficient and productive. The unique needs of more than thirty specialties, as well as primary care, are explained in the context of new technology and the many regulatory and compliance issues influenci…
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Building Collaborative Trust in Construction Procurement Strategies
Provides a practical framework and toolkit for improved construction project outcomes based on trust and collaboration This book explores the concept of trust as a tool in improved construction procurement strategies, and provides important insight into the influence of trust on the success of construction projects and redevelopment programs. It is a practical guide that offers readers a soli…
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Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces explores the performative aspects of early modern theatre architecture and design, explicating the aesthetic function of pictorial displacements, visual anomalies, and architectural paradoxes
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- 9781487518981
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- 1 online resource (216 pages)
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Sustainable Urban LogisticsPlanning and Evaluation
Urban logistics has been a subject of interest to researchers and practitioners for more than 20 years in France and Europe, and more than 40 in the United States. Nevertheless, the subject remains difficult to address by a lack of unification in the definitions and proposed methods but also by what makes its great richness: the diversity of actors and the pluridisciplinarity of the methods and…
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