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  • Affordable Housing for Livable Cities

    by Avi Friedman, Genessa Bates ...
    The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable. Written by a team of a planner and an architect, each of the book’s chapters stands for a subject in the design process moving from urban scale to that of a home and includes richly illustrated case studies ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing

    Fostering Sustainability and Livability

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. This book highlights innovative planning strategies for livability and wellbeing of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Planning and Designing Sustainable Post-Disaster Shelters

    by Avi Friedman, Baichi Chaki ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters. With millions of people forced to flee their homes annually due to conflict, environmental disasters, or persecution, the urgency of this global crisis cannot be overstated. Since refugees often reside in temporary shelters for years after years, it is imperative to construct refugee camps ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Lessons from People-Friendly Places

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call for innovative thinking. In a world that is becoming highly urbanized, the need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental global changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The book introduces fundamental principles of timely ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

    by Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman ...
    This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.Chapters focus on three key circular economy principles and apply them to architectural construction and design, namely rethinking of the end-of-use phase of a building and the potential ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Sustainable Digital City

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world. Seven axes of urban planning have been selected to highlight how data and technology currently work and how these systems can be improved going forward. Each aspect is explored in its own chapter that combines narrative description, illustrations, and case studies to show how ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living

    by Avi Friedman, Alexandra Pollock ...
    The obesity crisis has affected many nations. It is also one of the factors listed as contributing cause to the COVID-19 fatalities. The common tendency is to blame people’s dietary choices and sedentary habits. Yet, it can also be argued that social inequity and poor urban planning practices have largely contributed to a lack of active lifestyles. Low-density suburban sprawl, long commutes, food ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods

    by Avi Friedman ...
    This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book’s fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices.Past approaches to planning and design ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging “Baby Boomers,” and climate change. Dr. Friedman then examines these challenges through thirty chapters of interest to urban designers, architects, civil and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A View From the Porch

    Rethinking Home and Community Design

    by Avi Friedman ...
    A View from the Porch is an illuminating collection of 22 essays about the points where design touches life and the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighbourhoods.Drawing on his experiences as an architect, planner, world traveller, and educator, Friedman delves into issues such as the North American obsession with monster homes, the impact ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Innovative Houses

    Concepts for Sustainable Living

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the non-traditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources. Designing residential environments that address these issues is an urgent priority.This book examines the latest ... Read more

    $2.99 USD