Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4

Changing Professional Practice

Edited by Ian Cooper, Martin Symes

This new volume explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and...

Published August 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Drawing/Thinking

Confronting an Electronic Age

Edited by Marc Treib

Published August 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

By Brian Edwards

This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice....

Published August 20th 2008 by Taylor and Francis.

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The Global Architect

Firms, Fame and Urban Form

By Donald McNeill

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological...

Published August 5th 2008 by Routledge.

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Rem Koolhaas / OMA

By Roberto Gargiani

In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in...

Published July 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Ruined by Design

Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

By Inger Sigrun Brodey

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe,...

Published July 11th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Possibility of (an) Architecture

Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects

By Mark Goulthorpe

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound...

Published July 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Dynamic Digital Representations in Architecture

Visions in Motion

By Imdat As, Daniel Schodek

Graphic communication in architecture has made a dramatic shift from traditional drafting practices to dynamic and hyper-medial representations. This book provides a concise and practical...

Published July 7th 2008 by Taylor and Francis.

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Cities Design and Evolution

By Stephen Marshall

Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the ‘organic urbanism’ of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution...

Published July 4th 2008 by Routledge.

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Design for Outdoor Recreation

By Simon Bell

Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations. The book is...

Published July 2nd 2008 by Taylor and Francis.

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