Built Environment

In Transcultural Cities Jeffrey Hou and a cross-disciplinary team of authors argue for a more critical and open approach that sees today’s cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural understanding.

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In Planning and Place in the City, Marichela Sepe explores the preservation, reconstruction and enhancement of cultural heritage and place identity. She outlines the history of the concept of placemaking, and sets out the range of different methods of analysis and assessment that are used to help pin down the nature of place identity. This book also uses the author's own survey-based method called PlaceMaker to detect elements that do not feature in traditional mapping and identifies appropriate planning interventions.

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The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know?

Authors Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer examined hundreds of the highest-rated large green buildings from around the world and asked their owners to supply one simple thing: actual performance data, to demonstrate their claims to sustainable operations.

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Enough is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill is set to publish on January 10th 2013 and the UK launch is taking place on January 24th at the University of Leeds.

Building Surveys has been a trusted guide for both students and professionals for over 30 years, evolving throughout its eight editions to address the challenges and responsibilities of the building surveying role. It covers everything needed for initial inspections such as equipment, know-how and procedures to writing an accurate report, making it indispensable to those practicing in or studying this field.

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The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building’s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

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This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design.

This year The Temporary City  has been nominated for Urban Design Groups Publisher Award 2013

The Urban Design Group's annual celebration of excellence in urban design will this year be held at the Royal Overseas League in St James's, Central London and will showcase some of the best examples of urban design work produced in the UK and beyond over the past 12 months.

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A brilliant review by Anthony Vidler of Composition, Non-Composition in the Architectural Review.

‘Lucan’s narrative, as he develops this ‘story of a word’, is never dry or dull, as the question is always addressed through examples – whether drawn from the rule books, or analyzed as the processes by which projects emerge.’

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We are pleased to announce the Earthscan from Routledge blog comeback. With a new entry every fortnight, blog posts written by various Earthscan from Routledge authors will be displayed both on the Routledge website and on our Facebook page here.

Each post within Facebook will be open to comments so please feel free to join in with the conversation.

The second entry by Steffen Lehmann, series editor of the new Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design can be found below!

We are pleased to announce the Earthscan from Routledge blog comeback. With a new entry every fortnight, blog posts written by various Earthscan from Routledge authors will be displayed both on the Routledge website and on our Facebook page here.

Each post within Facebook will be open to comments so please feel free to join in with the conversation.

The first entry by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill, authors of the new book Enough Is Enough can be found below!