The must-have reference on standards and best practices in sustainable design and construction.The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive references specifically and ...
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city ...
La sostenibilidad ha convertido en un reto social de inmensa importancia. A partir de la Revolución Industrial, las sociedades occidentales se han organizado bajo ...
Sustainability has become one of the main key phrases and goals of our time. Environmentally compatible methods of construction and products are hotly sought ...
Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented ...
Una nueva generación de arquitectos está previendo un futuro en el que la arquitectura convive en una relación simbiótica con la naturaleza, inspirados por ...
Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit ...
Werner Schmidt (1953) is one of the most interesting contemporary Swiss architects. Once graduated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna he moved ...
Green areas of all kinds have gained significance for contemporary urban planning. In addition to the importance for the structure and appearance of urban ...
The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that 'meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations ...
Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far ...
Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science ...
With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting ...
According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs. This is an ...
The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities ...
Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained ...
Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm's environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind ...
