Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges
ISBN: 9781844077465 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change...
This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and ada...
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228,62 zł |
Design Management for Sustainability
ISBN: 9781844078950 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together the rapidly developing field of design management with that of environmental sustainability. This title includes eight articles drawn from around the world that provide some critical insights into the relationship between ecological sustainability and the application of design management in a number of different contexts.
Brings together the rapidly developing field of design management with that of environmental sustainability. This title includes eight articles drawn ...
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259,80 zł |
Transforming Markets in the Built Environment: Adapting to Climate Change
ISBN: 9781849710886 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This volume introduces credible 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done.
Research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of ...
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452,09 zł |
Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources
ISBN: 9781849711166 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. Past interactions and interventions between developed and developing countries have often been unequal and inappropriate. We now need to embrace fresh design practices based on respect for diversity and equality, participation and empowerment. This book explores what it means for development activists to practise architecture on a global scale, and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices based... Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainabilit... |
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207,83 zł |
A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design
ISBN: 9781849711913 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern book for today. Now fully updated, this well established textbook provides advice suitable for undergraduate and post graduate students on the integration of sustainable practice into the design and construction process, the issues to be considered, the strategies to be adopted, the elements...
Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book of...
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306,57 zł |
Sustainable Design II: Towards a New Ethics of Architecture and City Planning
ISBN: 9782330000851 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2007, the architect and scholar Jana Revedin created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in collaboration with Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, to recognize architects leading the field in environmentally friendly design and practice. The prize, which now receives the patronage of UNESCO, is awarded each year to five architects who share the principles of sustainable development and who have taken an innovative approach towards maintaining them in the built environment. This publication illustrates the work of Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbai, Diebedo Francis Kere, Patrick...
In 2007, the architect and scholar Jana Revedin created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in collaboration with Cite de l'Architecture et ...
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237,35 zł |
Eco Living
ISBN: 9783037681497 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining sustainability with trendsetting design is one of the great challenges of contemporary architecture. Resource sparing living space is one of the most important themes. This title shows the variety of possibilities with the established technologies as well as newer experimental approaches.
Combining sustainability with trendsetting design is one of the great challenges of contemporary architecture. Resource sparing living space is one of...
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382,66 zł |
Sustainable Development and Environmental Management: Experiences and Case Studies
ISBN: 9789048176779 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities. In particular, they expressed the need and will to develop policy and mana- ment tools that could lead to a strategy of sustainable growth from an economic, social and environmental point of view. The Programme turned out to be a success (it involved, up to June 2007, more than 2000 trainees...
This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the m...
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590,35 zł |
Eco-Urban Design
ISBN: 9789400703681 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Eco-Urban Design" focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems. This book endeavours to tell the positive side of the story by featuring considered design solutions provided by the world's most innovative architects and engineers. By only including realised projects which have been subjected to... "Eco-Urban Design" focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishin... |
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393,55 zł |
House Rating Schemes: From Energy to Comfort Base
ISBN: 9783642266287 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be...
"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Ra...
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393,55 zł |
Design Energy Simulation for Architects: Guide to 3D Graphics
ISBN: 9780415840651 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new tools requires understanding of what can be done with simulation, how to do it, and how to interpret the results. This software-agnostic book, which is intended for you to use as a professional architect, shows you how to reduce the energy use of all buildings using simulation for shading, daylighting, airflow, and energy modeling. Written by a practicing architect who specializes in design simulation, the book includes 30 case studies of... Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new ... |
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909,47 zł |
Design Energy Simulation for Architects: Guide to 3D Graphics
ISBN: 9780415840668 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new tools requires understanding of what can be done with simulation, how to do it, and how to interpret the results. This software-agnostic book, which is intended for you to use as a professional architect, shows you how to reduce the energy use of all buildings using simulation for shading, daylighting, airflow, and energy modeling. Written by a practicing architect who specializes in design simulation, the book includes 30 case studies... Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new ... |
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374,13 zł |
Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781622880614 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Foreword by David Orr: ." . . T]he authors here describe a curriculum of applied hope. No discipline is exempt from the effort to extend awareness of our implicatedness in the world, and from the effort to create a better future than that in prospect. As scholars and teachers, they are responding to the intellectual and moral imperatives of "the long emergency.." . . The overwhelming fact of our time is that life on Earth is in peril, humans are the cause, and that no amount of tinkering at the margin of the "status quo" will do. We have every reason to reexamine our beliefs,... From the Foreword by David Orr: ." . . T]he authors here describe a curriculum of applied hope. No discipline is exempt from the effort to extend... |
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135,94 zł |
Form Follows Energy: Using Natural Forces to Maximize Performance
ISBN: 9783990432020 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architektur ist Energie. Architektonische Entwurfe entscheiden oft fur Jahrzehnte und manchmal Jahrhunderte uber den damit verbundenen Energie- und Materialverbrauch. Form Follows Energy analysiert das Verhaltnis zwischen Energiestromen und der Form unserer gebauten Umwelt. Es untersucht die Optimierung der Energieflusse in Architektur und Stadtebau und ermittelt daraus neue Ansatze. Die komplexen Zusammenhange zwischen Architektur und Energie werden in Fallstudien veranschaulicht. Handgezeichnete Diagramme zeigen auf, wie Energieplanungsstrategien genutzt werden konnen,... Architektur ist Energie. Architektonische Entwurfe entscheiden oft fur Jahrzehnte und manchmal Jahrhunderte uber den damit verbundenen Energie- und... |
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351,70 zł |
Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment
ISBN: 9780415829779 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy. Aimed especially at designers and architects, Motivating Change explores the...
Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influen...
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909,47 zł |
Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
ISBN: 9780857854797 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level - in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a 'world-making force'. The research for the book is informed by diverse sources including industry journals, contemporary accounts and technical literature - all framed by rich, early accounts of iron and steel making from the middle ages to the... Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and... |
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675,61 zł |
Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
ISBN: 9780857854803 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level - in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a 'world-making force'. The research for the book is informed by diverse sources including industry journals, contemporary accounts and technical literature - all framed by rich, early accounts of iron and steel making from the middle ages to the... Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and... |
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164,06 zł |
Rough Guide to Sustainability: A Design Primer
ISBN: 9781859465073 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This latest edition of Rough Guide to Sustainability remains a simple, no-nonsense reference source for all students and practitioners of sustainability in the built environment. It sets out the broad environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainability principles, and outlines the science, measures and design solutions that must be adopted to meet current definitions of responsible architecture. The fourth edition covers the latest developments in a rapidly expanding sector. It offers a wider international scope than ever before, and... This latest edition of Rough Guide to Sustainability remains a simple, no-nonsense reference source for all students and practitioners of ... |
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192,29 zł |
Passive Annual Heat Storage: Improving the Design of Earth Shelters (2013 Revision)
ISBN: 9780615905884 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Still the World's Most Advanced Text on Earth Sheltering and Passive Solar Design
Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting heat in the summertime, by cooling the home naturally, storing it in the earth naturally, then returning the heat to the home in the winter. It includes extensive use of natural heat flow methods and the arrangement of building materials to direct heat from wherever you get it to wherever you want it, all without using machinery to make it work. With the rising cost of energy, all home builders should become familiar with basic PAHS principles. ... Still the World's Most Advanced Text on Earth Sheltering and Passive Solar Design
Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting hea... |
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135,71 zł |
Explosion Green: One Man's Journey to Green the World's Largest Industry
ISBN: 9781630470227 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Explosion Green" tells the twenty-year story of the global green building movement through the eyes of David Gottfried, the man who helped start it all. "Explosion Green" reveals the inner workings of the building industry as it comes to grips with the need for environmentally friendly practices. It describes how the industry has evolved, and how this evolution has helped fight climate change and prevent further damage to the environment while creating a multibillion-dollar industry. Filled with his unique insight and self-deprecating humor, Gottfried's riveting memoir demonstrates how one...
"Explosion Green" tells the twenty-year story of the global green building movement through the eyes of David Gottfried, the man who helped start it a...
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77,46 zł |