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 ...
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 ...
En el presente libro se estudian, desde el punto de vista del derecho adminsitrativo, 100 resolucuiones judiciales dictadas contra la Administración Pública por incumplimiento ...
The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More ...
Scenes and scenarios, techniques and tactics, physical and theoretical models to work with the ruins of modernity, narrowing a new life to scrap and ...
