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The New Carbon ArchitectureBuilding to Cool the Climate
Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildin…
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From Mobility to AccessibilityTransforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use …
Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also represents a major step toward transforming accessibility from a vaguely defined aspiration into concrete measures that can guide planning decisions. â• Journal of the American Planning…
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- 9781501716096
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Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas
"From such well-known and long-vexed sites as the Athenian Acropolis to more contemporary locales like the Space Age Modernist capital city of Brasília, the conflicting and not always neatly resolvable forces that bear upon preservation are addressed as clearly and thoughtfully as the general reader could hope for."— New York Review of Books "…an astonishing feat of research, compilation…
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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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A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume IDefi…
This two-volume set describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet human needs for WEL…
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Design for FloodingArchitecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience t…
" Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking…and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places." —Landscape Architecture Magazine
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Concrete TorontoA Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seve…
Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete structures have been increasingly ignored and in…
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A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume IISys…
This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet human needs for WE…
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Live-Work Planning and DesignZero-Commute Housing
"Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens." -Peter Katz, Author, The New Urbanism, and Planning Director, Arlington County,…
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East/WestA Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto
East/West is a guided tour of old stories and fresh perspectives on the architecture and planning of housing and urban development in central Toronto including both success stories and perennial problems. Specially prepared maps, over 120 photos, and scores of essays cover more than a hundred sites, neighbourhoods and current issues. The editors are practising professionals in architecture, pl…
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