RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
 

RIBA Publishing is one of the leading providers of high quality information for architects, built environment professionals and students around the world and is therefore an ideal complement to our own Routledge Architecture, Construction, Planning and Landscape lists. For full details of this distribution deal click here

See below for some of the key, new and forthcoming titles from RIBA Publishing.

It has been extensively updated to reflect the most recent legal developments, including the 2011 Localism Act.

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1. Why do you think the book has proved so successful and reached an 11th edition? What’s new in this edition?

Eric: The book takes the novice valuer into the world of property valuation in increasing depth so that by the end he/she understands the complexity of the subject and can undertake the task of valuing. It isn’t condescending and it allows both the beginner and the more experienced reader to develop their skills. This edition updates the knowledge base and renders the book suitable for today’s problems.

David: It is comprehensive and maintains a balance between theory and practical guidance; and is regularly updated to reflect changes in the law relating to Real Estate.

 

2. What other Routledge/EG Books title would you recommend to complement Modern Methods?

Eric: Valuation: Principles into Practice (6th Edition) edited by Richard Hayward

David: All, but especially Statutory Valuations (4th Edition) by Andrew Baum, Gary Sams, Jennifer Ellis, Claire Hampson and Douglas Stevens and The Income Approach to Property Valuation (6th Edition) By Andrew Baum, Nick Nunnington and David Mackmin.


3. What advice would you offer to students studying Real Estate?

Eric: Understand the theory before venturing on to tackle the practical. Understand the position which property has in the wider investment world.

David: This subject requires a combination of skills - some technical such as building, but also legal and economic. Appreciating how markets work is critical. Learning how all the subjects link to impact on the value of real estate is essential if sound professional advice is to be given.

 

4. What has been the greatest challenge you have come across in your career?

Eric: Keeping up with the changes in the law relating to property and also the changes in the economic scene both macro and micro, namely the shifting sands of the position of property in the wider context.

David: Recognising how economic forces such as those being experienced at the current time cause prices and values of real estate to rise and fall.

 

5. Which alternative career paths may you have chosen had you not gone down the route of chartered surveying?

Eric: I would have liked to be a barrister.

David: Possibly law.

 

6. Can you tell us one unknown or unusual fact about yourself?

Eric: I grew up in the East End of London in the 1950’s in a very poor household. However, I was determined to go to university at a time when most students of my background didn’t and was encouraged by my parents, whose motto was that whilst you may be poor you didn’t have to think poor.

David: Used to run Bingo sessions for our children’s Parent Teachers Association.
 

About the Authors

Eric Shapiro is Director of Valuations at Chesterton Humberts, Chartered Surveyors. He has over 45 years' experience in dealing with the management, valuation, sale and letting of residential and commercial property. He is also a co-author of Valuation: Principles into Practice.

David Mackmin BSc, MSc, FRICS is a chartered surveyor, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate at Sheffield Hallam University, and Visiting Professor in Valuation at the Technische Universität Wien. He is the author and co-author of a number of valuation books, including Valuation and Sale of Residential Property and, with Professor Andrew Baum and Nick Nunnington, The Income Approach to Property Valuation


 

"invaluable… without this book it is not possible to get a degree in estate management, or understand any of the valuation modules."

The book provides a comprehensive set of  thirty different valuation and investment tables in one volume, an essential tool for students and professionals in the study and practice of valuation and appraisal.

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For the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics we will be showcasing some of our new and key books and journals related to the Games.

Featured titles from Routledge

Disability in the Global Sport Arena

Ethics, Disability and Sports

Disability and Youth Sport

Disability, Sport and Society

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Paralympics: Coaches in Wales behind disabled sport elite

By Natalie Grice - BBC news - 30 August 2012

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News

Authors of Dynamic Landscape are part of the design team for the Olympic 2012 Park Gardens

Professors James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett of the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield were appointed in 2008 as principal horticultural and planting design consultants for the Olympic Park, working with LDA/Hargreaves.

The 2012 gardens in the London Olympic Park are a spectacular celebration of contemporary horticulture and planting design, comprising half a mile of naturalistic perennial plantings. While the main focus in the Olympic Park as a whole is on native biodiversity and ecological approaches, the 2012 gardens explore the horticultural diversity of British gardens and take visitors on a tour of the biodiversity hotspots of the world that have been the major source of plants for UK gardeners over the past 600 years.

(extract taken from Nigel Dunnett's website - to read it in full click here)

Click here for more information about their bestselling book Dynamic Landscape,

News

London 2012 Olympics: A story of sustainable architecture
By Tierney Smith in Responding to Climate Change - 23rd July 2012

Routledge books in this area include ...

• Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development - Adrian Pitts and Hanwen Liao
• BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes on the London 2012 Olympic Park
  Lessons from the Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village - Neil Paterson, Adam Robinson and Robin Brylewski
• Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings - Paul Appleby
• New Directions in Sustainable Design - Edited by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky
• Sustainable Buildings in Practice  - George Baird
• The Green Studio Handbook 2nd Edition - Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik
   

A full range of sustainable architecture and environment books can be found in the latest catalogues

 A Bit of Fun ...

 Time Lapse Videos on You Tube

Samsung sponsor London Olympics 2012 - watch these three time lapsed videos of the main stadiums being built. http://youtu.be/0PpLB4nB9N8

ITN - Watch a spectacular timelapse video of London's Olympic Velodrome being built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1lFG3dL-0

Telegraphtv - Unveiled in Kew Gardens to mark 100 days to go until London 2012 gets underway, time-lapse and aerial footage shows how five giant Olympic ring flowerbeds took shape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAB8hLjNoE

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The Populous Design and Development Guide - Geraint John, Rod Sheard, Ben Vickery
 

In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.

Ideas about the design and use of stadiums continue to evolve and this fifth edition includes the latest developments in the field. Including updated chapters on sustainability and masterplanning, new chapters on temporary sports buildings and branding, and new global case studies, Stadia 5th edition is the ultimate guide to stadium design, from local club buildings to international showpieces.

Other Featured titles

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Planning Olympic Legacies
Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
By Eva Kassens-Noor
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas
For more information about Planning Olympic Legacies click here

Other featured titles include:

• Olympic Cities, John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
• Understanding the Olympics, John Horne and Garry Whannel
• The Olympics: The Basics, Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia
• Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
  Volume One: Making the Games, Vassil Girginov
• International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System, Jean-Loup Chappelet and Brenda Kubler -Mabbott

Olympic Stadium is in the running for Stirling prize gold
London 2012 Games venue makes unexpected appearance on list of architectural prize nominees
By Vanessa Thorpe - The Observer, Sunday 22 July 2012

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Stirling Prize winners and London architecture books from Routledge

BEST SELLER
Will Alsop : The Noise
Tom Porter

James Stirling
Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
Edited by Mark Crinson

BEST SELLER
Short Stories: London in Two-and-a Half Dimensions
CJ Lim and Ed Liu

London’s Contemporary Architecture 5th Edition
Ken Allinson

Architects and Architecture of London
Ken Allinson
 

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest

Published over three volumes each year and edited by HH Judge Hazel Marshall QC, they conveniently summarize key current property cases.

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"Very enjoyable reading from an author who clearly understands the subject, the aim of the book and the reader’s needs." Meryl Thomas, Professor of Property Law, Birmingham City University

"Very comprehensive yet relatively compact … well written." Jonathan Clore, Lecturer in Law, BPP Law School

"Modern Land Law gives an excellent overview of the subject." Stephen Davies, Associate Tutor in Law, University of Surrey
 

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Inside this catalogue you will find information on the newest editions of classic Estates Gazette
textbooks such as Modern Methods of Valuation and The Construction of Houses, as well as details of the latest volumes of the Estates Gazette Law Reports. We are proud to be publishing these books at Routledge and are very excited about the future expansion of the Routledge Property and Real Estate list.

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