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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. T…
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Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture. Volume IV, Building Ty…
Studies the forms and functions of 20th century architecture in categories such as buildings for commerce and industry, public health, transportation, and recreation.
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- 9780231882439
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Life Between BuildingsUsing Public Space
". . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening..." —Jane Jacobs "This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin readi…
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A Carnival Of LossesNotes Nearing Ninety
Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of soli…
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- 9781328826312
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Making Healthy PlacesDesigning and Building for Health, Well-being, and Susta…
The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching…
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Behavioral FormationVolatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange …
Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and arch…
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- 9781638408208
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Natural Hazard MitigationRecasting Disaster Policy And Planning
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability. Natural Hazard Mitigation describes and analyzes the way that hazard mitigation has been carried out in th…
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Vacant Spaces NY
Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and their architecture studio MOS imagine possibilities for repurposing current vacant spaces in New York City. This pr…
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Reshaping the Built EnvironmentEcology, Ethics, and Economics
Because of the profound effects of the built environment on the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability. This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil …
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Habiter les villes latino-américainesDébats, réflexions et enjeux de la re…
« Habiter la ville latino-américaine » serait-elle une expression polysémique? Cet ouvrage explore les différents sens, les multiples formes et contenus dans l'action d'habiter une des régions les plus urbanisées du monde. Entre étude des pratiques quotidiennes, des politiques urbaines, des réseaux habitants, des frontières réelles et imaginaires, l'objectif est celui d'offrir une vi…
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