Students and professionals encountering estimating for the first time need an approachable introduction to its principles and techniques, which is up to date with ...
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct ...
In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region's most distinguished urbanists to explore ...
Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important ...
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for ...
Materials Science in Construction explains the science behind the properties and behavior of construction's most fundamental materials (metals, cement and concrete, polymers, timber, bricks ...
The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both ...
Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based ...
The architect, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), has long been considered one of the major modern architects of the twentieth century in Brazil. Her iconic ...
This book examines the relationship between two divergent fields - corporate activity and heritage conservation - linking the financing of conservation and its benefits ...
This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for ...
Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in ...
Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, ...
The Earth's temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two ...
As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the ...
Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers ...
Architecture can inspire young children; the very shape and form of a daycare center can not only stimulate their imagination but can help children ...
Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why particular approaches were successful, or did ...
