A building's entire life cycle - from construction through occupation, cycles of renovation and repairs, up to demolition and disposal, impacts the flow of ...
Geomaterials are of enormous economic importance to the global construction industry. This is the first comprehensive guide to the petrography of geomaterials to make ...
Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. ...
Biblical in origin, the Sukkah is a fascinating 1,500-year-old Jewish ritual of construction and habitation. Erected for only one week in the fall, its ...
Penser, c'est dessiner, c'est représenter. Dessiner, c'est s'approprier un site, imaginer sa transformation, faire rêver, donner envie, ouvrir un dialogue fécond. Dessine-moi une ville ...
Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges in recent decades, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanised poverty. Because of a ...
Urban Green" explores new and innovative ways for 'built out' cities to add much-needed parkland. After first exploring the question of why urban parks ...
To promote China's sustainable city construction and development, this Brief has preliminarily used an assessment indicator system and development index of a sustainable city, ...
Analysing the requirements of both free and pay parking lots, this reference reveals the best practices for planning, designing, financing, building, and operating an ...
Planning the Megacity examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century. In 1900, the colonial capital of the Netherland Indies, then known ...
The world is urbanizing faster than current city design practices can sustain, climate change has introduced a new dynamism into what once appeared to ...
Baltasar Garzón es uno de los jueces más admirados, temidos y denostados de la España democrática. Su trayectoria le ha convertido en protagonista de ...
This manual sheds light on every aspect of designing housing. The organization of the living space and the residential building is dealt with systematically, ...
