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Future Directions for the European Shrinking City - Paperback

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by William J. V. Neill (Editor), Hans Schlappa (Editor)Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter. Coupled with unprecedented budgetary austerity and rapidly ageing populations, 'stagnating' and 'shrinking' cities have emerged as a key challenge for policy and practice for decades to come. Local actors need to find new ways of collaborating across sectors, agencies and disciplines to unloc...

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by Donald Shoup (Author)Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit walkability, damage the economy, raise housing costs, and penalize people who cannot afford or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative thinking, Sho...

Understanding the Nec4 Ecc Contract: A Practical Handbook - Paperback

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by Kelvin Hughes (Author)As usage of the NEC family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment. Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract uses plain English to lead the reader through the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract's key features. Chapters cover: The Contractor's main responsibilities the use of early warnings Contractor's design Tendering Quality management Payment...

Offsite Architecture: Constructing the future - Paperback

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by Ryan E. Smith (Editor), John D. Quale (Editor)Architects have been intrigued by prefabricated construction since the early twentieth century. Recent advances in design, engineering and manufacturing processes have led to a significant expansion in the use of pre-assembled components, which are fitted to finished structures on site. Collectively, such processes are becoming known as "offsite construction." A ground-breaking text, Offsite Architecture establishes the current - and future - s...

Tall Building Foundation Design - Paperback

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by Harry G. Poulos (Author)This book provides a comprehensive guide to the design of foundations for tall buildings. After a general review of the characteristics of tall buildings, various foundation options are discussed followed by the general principles of foundation design as applied to tall buildings. Considerable attention is paid to the methods of assessment of the geotechnical design parameters, as this is a critical component of the design process. A detailed treatment is then given...

Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers - Paperback

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by Len Holm (Author)Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers. Many textbooks on the market focus on the theoretical principles of accounting and finance required for head office staff like the chief financial officer (CFO) of a construction firm. This book's unique practical approach focuses on the activities of the construction manag...

Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology - Paperback

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by Jack S. Goulding (Editor), Farzad Pour Rahimian (Editor)The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow. This book builds on the success of a number of initiatives, including formative findings from literature, research and development and practice-based evidence (success stories). It presents new thinking and direction from leading experts in the fields of: design, process, construction, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, robotics, delivery platforms, business and transformationa...

The Craft of Collaborative Planning: People Working Together to Shape Creative and Sustainable Places - Paperback

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by Jeff Bishop (Author)Unlike books that focus solely on methods, The Craft of Collaborative Planning provides a detailed guide to designing and managing all aspects of the collaborative process, advocating for making collaborative work the norm.Beginning with a discussion of the political and legal context of collaborative practice in UK land use planning systems, The Craft of Collaborative Planning tracks a path through the challenging task of process design and working with various groups ...

Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing Their Architecture and Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Tessa Morrison (Author)Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featu...

Introduction to Construction Contract Management - Paperback

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by Brian Greenhalgh (Author)This book is an introduction to construction contract administration and management, covering the delivery and execution stage of a construction project and the various issues which the contract administrator needs to proactively manage. It can therefore be used as a contract administrator's resource book covering what needs to be done (and why) to keep a construction project on track from a commercial and contractual perspective. It is particularly appropriate for...

From Student to Urban Planner: Young Practitioners' Reflections on Contemporary Ethical Challenges - Paperback

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by Tuna Taşan-Kok (Editor), Mark Oranje (Editor)For many young planners, the noble intentions with going to planning school seem starkly out of place in the neoliberal worlds they have come to inhabit. For some, the huge gap between the power they thought they would have and what they actually do is not only worrying, but also deeply discouraging. But for some others, practice means finding practical and creative solutions to overcome challenges and complexities. How do young planners in diff...

Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment - Paperback

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by David Sanderson (Editor), Jerold Kayden (Editor), Julia Leis (Editor)Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, especially in comparison to rural areas. Poor urban dwellers, almost always the most vulnerable, too often bear the brunt. Aid agencies and urban professionals have been slowly adapting to these new c...

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body - Paperback

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by Sarah Schrank (Author), Didem Ekici (Author)Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book's contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological inno...

The New Public Service: Serving, Not Steering - Paperback

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by Janet V. Denhardt (Author), Robert B. Denhardt (Author)The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, act democratically; (5) recognize that ac...

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities - Paperback

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by Rebecca Leshinsky (Editor), Crystal Legacy (Editor)Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning's instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes. Because each instrument is unique and may be tailored to its own jurisdictional needs, Instruments of Planning is a compendium of case studies from urban regions in Australia, Canada, the United States and Europe, p...

Procurement in the Construction Industry: The Impact and Cost of Alternative Market and Supply Processes - Paperback

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by William Hughes (Author), Patricia M. Hillebrandt (Author), David Greenwood (Author)Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry is the result of research into this question and it includes the first rigorous categorizing of the differences between procurement methods currently in use. In the process of carrying out this research, the team has produced...

Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures - Paperback

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by Christopher Dresser (Author)First Published in 2001. As an architect and ornamentist by profession, the author of this volume has specialist knowledge of many manufacturing processes and presents his observations on architectural edifices and Japanese art. Includes photos and commissioned drawings. Number of Pages: 480 Dimensions: 0.97 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 21, 2016

Economics of Fire Protection: Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53 - Paperback

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by Ganapathy Ramachandran (Author)This important new book, the first of its kind in the fire safety field, discusses the economic problems faced by decision-makers in the areas of fire safety and fire precautions. The author considers the theoretical aspects of cost-benefit analysis and other relevant economic problems with practical applications to fire protection systems. Clear examples are included to illustrate these techniques in action. The work covers: * the performance and effectiven...

Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces Between Buildings - Paperback

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by Evyatar Erell (Author), David Pearlmutter (Author), Terence Williamson (Author)The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in outdoor spaces, and...

Social Sustainability in Urban Areas: Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric - Paperback

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by Tony Manzi (Editor), Karen Lucas (Editor), Tony Lloyd Jones (Editor)This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book consists of original contributions from academics working in the fields of urban planning, housing, r...

Project Finance for Construction - Paperback

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by Anthony Higham (Author), Carl Bridge (Author), Peter Farrell (Author)The world of construction is intrinsically linked with that of finance, from the procurement and tendering stage of projects right through to valuation of buildings. In addition to this, things like administrations, liquidations, mergers, take-overs, buy-outs and floatations affect construction firms as they do all other companies.This book is a rare explanation of common construction management activities from a financia...

Yearning for a Broad Place: An Architect's Odyssey from Baltimore Blues to Cape Cod Bays, from Sorcerer's Apprentice to Pilgrim - Paperback

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by Emil Heller Henning III (Author)EVERYONE HAS SOME "BROAD PLACE" of FREEDOM THEY YEARN TO ESCAPE TO, if only in daydreams. The author tells how Cape Cod was such a place for him growing up in the 1950s, when not every bay was lined with mansions and the woods and marshes still had a touch of wildness to them. What the author was escaping is only hinted at first, but crescendos to a near-madness of intellectual hubris. His salvation story is laced with observations on architecture and lands...

Community Leadership Development: A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application - Paperback

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by Mark a. Brennan (Editor)The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes. Leadership development activities that focus on building new skills and fostering new ideas directly shape local and organizational capacity. At the organizational level, leadership is a valued resource as organizations are faced with challenges of limited r...

Aalto, Utzon, Fehn: Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture - Paperback

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by Roger Tyrrell (Author)This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, J rn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of''). Roger Tyrrell explains how the approach of each architect is defined by the three sub-frames of the paradigm: that of the 'origin' (arche), that of 'revealing' (techne), and that of 'the poetic conjunction', in order to gain a holistic understanding of the exper...

The Case Against the Canaanites - Paperback

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by Arturo R. Ortiz (Author)The primary purpose of this book is to show that Godhad morally sufficient reasons to destroy the paganCanaanite nations. The book exposes the depth andextent of the hideous religious practices of Israel'spagan neighbors. The author examines evidence fromthe Bible, classical literature, Christian literature, history, archaeology, and epigraphy. Archaeologists uncoveredthe most damning evidence during excavations of highplaces and precincts of Baal worship in the Bib...

The House of Shadows and Light: A Story with Pictures - Hardcover

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by Ken Tate (Author)Plato asserted that the world is a visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related. This idea of the anima mundi-a universal spirit of life-has infused world thought from the beginning of human life. Because he speaks the language of buildings, Ken Tate perceives this animating spirit in every aspect of the house: materials drawn from nature, forms and rhythms with timeless grace, the ever-changing play of light and shadow,...

Bread Cookbook: Bread-baking made easy for beginners - Paperback

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by North Arrow Press (Author)Discover mouthwatering recipes that will enable beginners to savor the taste of freshly baked homemade bread on a daily basis with this Bread Cookbook for Beginners!.✓ Are you interested in baking your own fresh, soft, and aromatic bread at home but unsure of how to get started?✓ Are you interested in exploring the wealth of traditional knowledge and trying out an array of distinctive bread recipes? Few things can rival the heavenly scent of warm, freshly baked br...

A Transition to Sustainable Housing: Progress and Prospects for a Low Carbon Housing Future - Paperback

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by Trivess Moore (Author), Andréanne Doyon (Author)Back JacketThis open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity is...

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by Arnold William Brunner (Author), Charles Downing Lay (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservatio...

The Cathedral Church of Chichester: A Short History & Description of Its Fabric with an Account of the Diocese and See, Volume 8 - Paperback

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by Hubert Christian Corlette (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwid...

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by Elena Folkerts (Author), Demi (Illustrator)The charm of the Himalayan mountain folk living near Mount Everest, Nepal, is brought to life for young readers.In Nepali Sherpa culture, the protector Khumbila journeys from the heights of the solar system to the momo dumplings served in a cottage kitchen. Buddhist monks, yaks, naks, and chants are featured under the planets. Detailed illustrations in traditional Tibetan style reveal landscapes, dress, and customs that combine magnificence with s...

Designing for Life: Inspiring Interior Designs for Every Style and Taste in Made to Live - Paperback

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by Victor Wise (Author)As an interior designer and lifestyle blogger, a lot is asked of me questions and how to translate my style is what I am asked the most. From now, "my look" has become distinct enough that I like to think if you have seen a array of police from five different houses, you would immediately identify the one I designed. That said, you may not be able to easily summarize it in a few words. My looks aren't about one thing or the other but rather it's a specific mix that I've...