Architecture : Urban & Land Use Planning

Provides guidelines on best practice using an iterative, assessment-based approach to design development for all types of development, with comprehensive advice on the practice and monitoring of landscape and impact assessment. more...

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The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character of cities. more...

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‘An excellent scientific book and a very useful source of knowledge. The author has succeeded in describing in a very comprehensive way all the recent scientific developments in this very important subject. The reader will be fully informed on the causes of heat islands the scientific ways to document them and also on all major mitigation techniques. This is a valuable reference not only for climatologists and climate experts but also for building engineers architects building physicists researchers and university students.’ Mat Santamouris Associate Professor at the University of Athens Greece ‘I have been an advocate for heat island mitigation technologies for many years because they make sense - practical sense and economic sense. Heat Islands neatly explains the problem of heat islands in cities and presents the remarkable benefits that may be obtained from cooler roofs and pavements and additional vegetation.’ Arthur Rosenfeld Commissioner California Energy Commission Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems in terms of increased energy consumption reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed what problems they cause which technologies mitigate heat island effects and what policies and actions can be taken to cool communities. The author includes sections on cool roofing and cool paving explains their benefits in detail and provides practical guidelines for their selection and installation. The book also reviews how and why to incorporate trees and vegetation around buildings in parking lots and on green roofs. In this groundb more...

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The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discussing in detail current issues concerning housing and health, and describes attempts at housing groups whose health is at risk more...

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Examines the controversial issue of whether looser planning controls are necessary in order to provide affordable housing or whether we should protect the countryside from urban encroachment. more...

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