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The Art of City Making
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The Art of City Making
By Charles Landry
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Number Of Pages: 462
Publication Date: 2006-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1844072460
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781844072460
Binding: Hardcover
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City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word – from ‘in’ to ‘for’ – gives city-making an ethical foundation and value base. It helps cities become places of solidarity where the relations between the individual, the group, outsiders to the city and the planet are in better alignment.
Following the widespread success of The Creative City, this new book, aided by international case studies, explains how to reassess urban potential so that cities can strengthen their identity and adapt to the changing global terms of trade and mass migration. It explores the deeper fault-lines, paradoxes and strategic dilemmas that make creating the ‘good city’ so difficult.
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Summary: On how to become a better city
Rating: 5
If you are looking for a check list or the do's and don'ts on how to become a better city, this book is not for you. In a way Landry is more of an urban psychiatrist who's challenging cities and their inhabitants to make up their own minds on how to become a better urban society. The book is chock full of examples, stories and insights on the matter (hence the size) which a well informed Landry uses to picture the bigger and positive image without being pushy about anything, although the 'being creative' gets a bit repeative after a while. All in all the book is an easy to read and feel good story about cities that want or should want to be a good city.
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Research and Technology Buildings: A Design Manual (Design Manuals)
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Research and Technology Buildings: A Design Manual (Design Manuals)
By Hardo Braun, Dieter Grömling
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 238
Publication Date: 2005-04-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764321741
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764321741
Binding: Hardcover
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A handbook on planning and designing architecture for research and technology.
The significance of research and technology in today's economies is undisputed and continues to grow. Designing buildings to accommodate a range of functions, from laboratory experiments through prototype development to presentation and marketing is an architectural field of great potential. Commissioned by universities, public institutes and private companies, the challenge is to reconcile security and accessibility, laboratories equipped with sensitive, state-ofthe-art instruments and facilities for theoretical research.
Zoning, circulation and functional requirements, as well as the historical development and contemporary context of research building, are covered in the opening systematic chapters of this Design Manual. Following this some 70 built projects, largely from Europe, the USA and Asia, are analysed according to a variety of aspects such as urban integration and communications infrastructure.
The authors, both from the internationally renowned Max Planck Society, and contributors draw on their own substantial practical expe rience of planning and building research facilities.
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Summary: great reference material not to be missed
Rating: 4
Excellent reference book with thoroughly researched information required for laboratory buildings. It contains a great number of picture which other similar publications don't have and simply standing one step above the rest. Highly recommended.
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings
By Peter Smith
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Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: 2007-04-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750683007
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750683005
Binding: Paperback
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.
Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer.
This immensely practical book is packed with useful diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of the most recent case studies, including the education building, the Core, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. As well as exploring cutting edge developments in photovoltaics (PV) this revised edition also includes the latest data from the 2006 Carbon Trust report on wave and tide, and new material on the latest advances in bioenergy and marine technologies.
Buildings are currently a major part of the carbon emissions problem. This book indicates how they may become part of the solution.
* Introduces the very latest in practical sustainability techniques
* First point of reference for all architects and engineers who want their designs to be both responsive and cutting edge
* Useful diagrams, graphs and photographs illustrate the diverse technologies being developed to create optimum eco-efficiency in our built environment
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Tall Buildings and Sustainability Report (London)
by Will Pank, Maunsell Ltd
The Scope of the Report This report examines the options for tall buildings in the City of London in the context of sustainable development. It does so against a background of
pressure for change arising out of emerging policies of relevance to the City.
The effect of tall buildings on their local environment and on their occupants is
considered. An analysis of new developments in the design, construction and
operation of tall buildings is followed by a discussion of “best practice”
examples of new design ideas from around the world.
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Architectural Detailing: Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics
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Architectural Detailing: Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics
By Edward Allen
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 1992-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471547921
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471547921
Binding: Hardcover
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Describes systematically and in readily usable form the principles by which good architectural details are designed. The principles are laid out in 83 brief but profusely illustrated ``detail patterns''. The first section examines each of the patterns and illustrates several instances of its use. The latter part demonstrates the execution of these patterns in the design of key details for three different buildings types. Extensively illustrated.
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Summary: Architectural Detailing: Function - Constructibility - Aesthetics
Rating: 5
An excellent book for architectural students and young professionals, now made better in the second edition. Expanded with more insight and expertise from Professor Allen augmented by Professor Rand makes it invaluable to readers. A must on every professional's book shelf providing the basic fundamentals and principles of detailing.
Summary: Brilliant and indispensible
Rating: 5
This book is the thinking person's "Graphic Standards" (no slight to that book intended). But in this case, instead of handing you details, it teaches you how to design your own details. It is not only a one-of-a-kind approach but incredibly well-done, well organized, and beautifully illustrated as well. It is a guide to knowing why details should be designed in particular ways. It explains, in depth, what to think about when designing at the level of the detail. And the three case studies in the back of the book are worth their weight in gold. This book truly makes the point that detailing is part of the process of design. Get it, and keep it.
Summary: Nice but nothing new
Rating: 1
As much as I like the author's "Building Construction", this book is not recommended. It is based on the premise that many construction details share common principles: shed water by using sloping surfaces, for instance. After a few such groupings are described, it turns into a tips and tricks collection, e.g., do rough work before finish work. It's not a comprehensive reference by any means. On the contrary, it's shamefully padded with many nearly blank pages. Enjoyable reading, nice drawings, just not nearly enough material to justify the price.
Summary: Concise and to the point!
Rating: 4
This book is the recipe to designing architectural details. The book is divided into many small but concise sections each dealing with different aspects e.g, controlling water leakage, accommodating movements, providing structural support, forgiving details, etc. In each of these sections various solutions and stategies to deal with these aspects are shown with simple easy to understand diagrams accompanied by a brief explanation. A chapter at the end is dedicated to developing and designing the architectural details through choosing and combining solutions disscussed in the sections with illustrated examples.
This book is the essence to "designing" or merely to "understanding" architectural details. The structure and simplicity of this book makes it almost like a dictionary of architectural details. This book is suitable for students, practicing architects, and those who are interested in the detailing of architecture. Note: in my opinion this book is of a reference nature and not recommended for leisure reading.
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Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design
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Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design
By Peter Gevorkian
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Pages: 249
Publication Date: 2005-12-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071469826
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071469821
Binding: Hardcover
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Expertly design and install all types of renewable energy systems
This is the only comprehensive, practical resource for understanding, designing, and installing all major types of renewable energy systems. Find workable solutions for a variety of building types, including commercial, public and residential structures.
Technical concepts and data are presented in plain jargon-free language with clear, concise bulleted text
Packed with charts, tables and diagrams
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Summary: A Professional's Publication on Sustainable Solar Power
Rating: 5
This publication covers all aspects of renewable solar power in the U.S. It takes complex scientific and engineering concepts and brings them down to understandable practical knowledge that all professionals as well as the casual reader seeks.
Any time a project team gets together on the design of renewable energy systems, they will need a common practical project oriented denominator from which to work from--and this is it. Even though the focus is on sustainable solar power, the book never forgets the other renewable energy sources that can be used for sustainable development.
Summary: Mostly a Primer on Solar Power
Rating: 5
We have all intellectuality known that the continued use of fossil fuels has been dumb. But this year the emotional understanding of the situation came closer to home as the cost of home heating has roughly doubled. All of a sudden, sustainable energy, particularly solar power looks a lot more attractive than it did even last year.
In spite of its title, this book is primarily on solar power. To be sure about half the book is on other technologies such as wind, tidal, and so on. But from an architectural standpoint, the technology is more advanced and more easily adapted when it is solar.
This book is not a detailed tutorial on how to install a solar power system, instead it is more of an overall survey of the concepts of how solar power can be utilized in the home and in some commercial/industrial buildings.
Near my house is a new development being built. There is absolutely no attention being made for solar power. So it hasn't quite yet reached the house buying public, but that time is coming. The concepts in this book are reaching mandatory level, maybe next year when the price of heating doubles again.
If there is one point lacking in this book, that is passive home heating. This is cheaper to install, has a very good payback, and can be combined with solar electric in the same building.
Summary: Graphic Standards for Solar Power
Rating: 5
The book is quite an accomplishment with an amazing wealth of information- a virtual solar bible. With information about different types of technologies, manufacturing processes, costs, and installation data, it tells everything an architect would ever need to know about solar power. The book is like the graphic standard for solar power technology.
Summary: Dr Peter Gevorkian's book on Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design
Rating: 5
Thank you for the clearest, most concise, & easily understood treatment of a technology whose time has definitely come. Starting with a history & background of solar technology in its previous incarnations, we are quickly brought up to date with workable solutions to many of our current energy challenges. From homes to concert halls & public facilities, the "how-to" of putting these technologies to work is fully explained in crisp paragraphs & bullet items, punctuated by colorful graphs, schematics, photos & charts which clearly illustrate the concepts explained. Examples of successful projects are provided & strategies presented to transition into use of solar power & other forms of renewable energy. When you finish reading this book, I'm sure you will feel as I did that you have a genuine understanding of what technologies are available & how they can work
Summary: Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design
Rating: 5
Amazing, is the most compressive compilation of renewable technologies ever created under one cover. It reads as if you are having a one on one lesson from a favorite professor. In a simple laymen way it exposes the social, economic, and architectural relationships with renewable technologies. A must read for city planners, architects, engineers, and all college students.
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