How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is to use an energy-efficient, zero-carbon model based on renewable energy sources and building typologies. This book presents different models for sustainable urban growth, based on the principles of 'Green Urbanism'.
How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is to use an energy-ef...
Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity. Resource recovery and the...
Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating spe...
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi invented her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in...
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the so...
