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Courtyard Housing

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Brian Edwards, Magda Sibley, Mohammad Hakmi, Peter Land

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of...

Published September 20th 2005 by Taylor and Francis.

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Accessible Housing

Quality, Disability and Design

By Rob Imrie

Considering the interrelationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people, this...

Published September 8th 2005 by Routledge.

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Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

The Framework and Protocols for Environmental Assessment

Edited by Stephen Curwell, Mark Deakin, Martin Symes

Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops...

Published September 7th 2005 by Routledge.

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Of Stones and Man

From the Pharaohs to the Present Day

By Jean Kerisel

Of Stones and Man explores the many errors of judgement made by civilizations both ancient and modern across the world. Arrogance and a penchant for...

Published September 1st 2005 by Taylor and Francis.

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Of Stones and Man

From the Pharaohs to the Present Day

By Jean Kerisel

Of Stones and Man explores the many errors of judgement made by civilizations both ancient and modern across the world. Arrogance and a penchant for...

Published September 1st 2005 by Taylor and Francis.

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Utopias and Architecture

By Nathaniel Coleman

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and...

Published August 24th 2005 by Routledge.

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Space Meets Status

Designing Workplace Performance

By Jacqueline Vischer

Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical...

Published August 4th 2005 by Routledge.

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Building Desire

On the Barcelona Pavilion

By George Dodds

In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion....

Published August 2nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Settings and Stray Paths

Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

By Marc Treib

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared...

Published July 14th 2005 by Routledge.

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New Urbanism and American Planning

The Conflict of Cultures

By Emily Talen

New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas...

Published July 12th 2005 by Routledge.

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