Built Environment Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fundamental Building Technology

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew J. Charlett, Craig Maybery-Thomas

   Fundamental Building Technology introduces the technology, methods, and processes fundamental to construction by focussing on what is involved in building a typical low-rise house. Written with the novice in mind, this textbook is the ideal starting point for any construction student, as it fully...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Introduction to Estimating for Construction

   By Brian Greenhalgh

   Students and professionals encountering estimating for the first time need an approachable introduction to its principles and techniques, which is up to date with current practice. Introduction to Estimating for Construction explains both the traditional techniques, and best practice in...

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Planning and Place in the City

   Mapping Place Identity

   By Marichela Sepe

   Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Real Estate Economics

   A Point-to-Point Handbook

   By Nicholas Pirounakis

   Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

   Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Cities and Climate Change

   By Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. From Organisation to Decoration

   An Interiors Reader

   Edited by Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone

   From Organisation to Decoration: An Interiors Reader is a reader for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the theories, processes and principles of the aspects of the theory and practice of interior architecture, interior design and interior decoration. The book is divided into three...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Construction Economics

   A New Approach, 3rd Edition

   By Danny Myers

   Construction Economics provides students with the principles and concepts underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. The New Approach adopts an argument that economics is central to government initiatives concerning sustainable construction. This edition has...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Urban Design Reader

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

    Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge