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Forthcoming Books

  1. Parry's Valuation and Investment Tables

    13th Edition

    By Alick Davidson

    First published in 1913, Richard Parry’s Valuation and Investment Tables has since become an essential tool for students and professionals in the study and practice of valuation and appraisal. The book provides a comprehensive set of some 30 different valuation and investment tables in one volume....

    To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Estates Gazette

  2. Planning, Risk and Property Development

    Urban regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands

    By Nikos Karadimitriou, Claudio de Magalhães, Roelof Verhage

    Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

    Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe’s cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in these...

    To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

  3. City Suburbs

    Placing suburbia in a post-suburban world

    By Alan Mace

    The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers contemporary Anglo-American suburbia, drawing on research in outer London it looks at life on the edge of a world city from the perspective of residents. Interpreted...

    To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Facilities Management and the Business of Managing Assets

    By Danny Then Shiem-Shin, Tan Teng Hee

    The importance of facilities management to the effective operation of all businesses is now widely accepted. Where there continues to be debate is on what constitutes a successful approach, and how much attention it should be given within an overall business plan. Drawing on both research and...

    To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations

    A Case Study, Second Edition

    By Nicolas A. Valcik

    Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

    Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition presents a case study of one university’s policies and practices with regard to the procurement, use, storage and disposal of HAZMAT in the context of a changing internal...

    To Be Published February 14th 2013 by CRC Press

  6. Rethinking Aesthetics

    The Role of Body in Design

    Edited by Ritu Bhatt

    Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in...

    To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Street

    A Quintessential Social Public Space

    By Vikas Mehta

    Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows us how these ordinary public spaces can be planned and designed to become settings...

    To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment

    By Iea-Retd

    Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment provides insight to policy makers and market actors as to the ways that new and innovative business models (and/or policy measures) can stimulate the deployment of renewable energy technologies (RET) and energy efficiency (EE) measures...

    To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge

  9. John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape

    By Jody Beck

    "A model city, the hope of democracy" – John Nolan on his suggested plans for Madison, Wisconsin This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While...

    To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Shanghai Alleyway House

    A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

    By Gregory Bracken

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...

    To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge