As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to ...
More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based ...
In the near future the appearance and spatial organization of urban and rural landscapes will be strongly influenced by the generation of renewable energy. ...
The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns. This reader-friendly book is the first ...
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, ...
Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of ...
Currently, the world is experiencing a 'perfect storm' of social, political, economic and ecological proportions. The full extent and severity of present conditions are ...
Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use ...
In this timely guide, one of the world's leaders in advanced building technology implementation shows architects and engineers proven and practical methods for implementing ...
This issue of a+u features projects of a small and sustainable nature. From the passive house in Bessancourt, France, by Karawitz Architecture and a ...
Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management. The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES ) is transforming land design, development, and ...
As innovation and new developments in technology now follow each other faster and faster, making yesterday's architectural fantasies today's construction realities, there's already a ...
Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging ...
