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  • Conservation and Planning

    Changing Values in Policy and Practice

    de Edward Hobson ...
    Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding.Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers.This book presents original research into how national ... Leer más

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  • City Rules

    How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    de Emily Talen ...
    City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't ... Leer más

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  • Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses

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    de David Kincaid ...
    Adapting Building for Changing Uses discusses the comprehensive refurbishment of buildings to enable them to be used for purposes different to those originally intended.For those involved in the often risky business of conversion of buildings from one type of use to another, Adapting Building for Changing Uses provides secure guidance on which uses may be best suited to a particular location. This ... Leer más

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  • Authentic Reconstruction

    Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage

    Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in place of what was lost.Authentic Reconstruction examines this idea of reconstruction, using it as a ... Leer más

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  • Hybridising Housing Organisations

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    Social housing has long been delivered through mixed economy mechanisms, but there has been little focus in housing studies on what this means for housing organisations themselves. This book presents recent international research applying concepts of social enterprise and hybridity to illuminate organisational behaviour in the housing sector. It addresses critiques of the explanatory value of ... Leer más

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  • Lifetime Environmental Impact of Buildings

    Series series Energy (R0)
    This work discusses the impact of the life of buildings on sustainable development methods. The study of the lifespan of the building is used to assess and manage the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life, from raw material extraction through to repair, maintenance and 'end of life' scenarios. While several papers have discussed thegreenhouse gas emissions of ... Leer más

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  • Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments

    Edición de Runming Yao ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management. An integrated approach in delivering a sustainable built environment is desired by the built environment professional institutions. The aim of this book is to provide an advanced understanding of the key subjects required for the design and management of modern built environments to meet ... Leer más

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  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Leer más

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  • The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

    This book reviews the sources of the air pollutants responsible for building damage and the mechanisms involved. Studies investigating the relationships between pollution concentration (dose) and the resulting damage (response) are described and the latest research findings for dose-response functions are presented.Trends in pollutant emissions, ambient concentrations and building damage over time ... Leer más

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  • The Risk City

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    Series series Energy (R0)
    Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink ... Leer más

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    An insight into the changing nature of the industrial and business space property market and how business space development schemes can be initiated and implemented to revitalise urban areas. ... Leer más

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    Managing the Building Design Process explains the designer’s role in the creation of new buildings from the development of the plan through to completion. One key case study is used throughout the book so that the reader can clearly follow the process leading to the creation of a new building. This new edition expands on the first edition including sections on CAD and sustainability; incorporating ... Leer más

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