Conservation of 20th Century Furniture provides a comprehensive coverage of materials and techniques that are encountered in twentieth century furniture, through both a contextual ...
Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. For this new ...
Dams and Appurtenant Hydraulic Structures, now in its second edition, provides a comprehensive and complete overview of all kinds of dams and appurtenant hydraulic ...
Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and ...
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, ...
Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping ...
'The region' has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century - ...
This new resource covers the material selection, structural design and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings through: * consideration of the nature of ...
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social ...
Informed Cities looks at the knowledge brokerage processes between cities and higher education institutions, and in particular evaluates governance mechanisms for monitoring local sustainability ...
This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice ...
Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both ...
Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world's people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, ...
This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why ...
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, ...
