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   Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate (October 2012)

   "We have our challenge laid out — Two Degrees provides a well-structured guide in which anyone who designs or builds in the built environment can find lasting value."—Ed Mazria, founder and CEO, Architecture 2030

   This book now includes the feature to LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK. All you have to do is just click on the link to go to the book page on the website

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   Transcultural Cities (January 2013)

   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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   The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia (March 2013)

   This is the first book on IIRSA and its implications for South America and more specifically for Amazonia. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure program and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.

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   Planning and Place in the City (December 2012)

   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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   RIBA Publishing titles now available from Routledge

   We are delighted to announce that RIBA Publishing books are now available via Routledge, for customers outside of the UK and Ireland. 

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

6. 

   The Street 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 that support an array of social behaviors. Through carefully crafted research, The Street systematically examines people's actions and perceptions, develops a comprehensive typology of social behaviors on the neighborhood commercial street and provides a thorough inquiry into the social dimensions of streets.

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   Transforming Urban Transport (November 2012)

   Drawing together leading scholars from different disciplines in Australia, Japan and China, this book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transportation planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities. Complete with a companion website with a wealth of supporting material around the topic, this is essential read for all students and practitioners of transportation planning. Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low

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   Low-Carbon Land Transport

   This book provides a guide for transportation policymakers and planners on achieving low-carbon land transportation systems and describes possible measures for reducing emissions. Based on wide ranging research, case studies from developed and developing countries and an overview of policy scenarios, it presents a toolbox for decision-makers with a huge variety of measures which can be tailored to their specific circumstances. This title also addresses the question of how policies can be bundled successfully and integrated in urban transportation decision-making and planning.

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   Housing and Society Series

   Series Editor: Ray Forrest, City University of Hong Kong and University of Bristol

   This series aims to situate housing within its wider social, political and economic context at both national and international level. In doing so it will draw on the full range of social science disciplines and on mainstream debate on the nature of contemporary social change. The books are intended to appeal to an international academic audience as well as to practitioners and policymakers – to be theoretically informed and policy relevant.

   For a full listing of books in the Housing and Society Series, click here
   

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    Best Tall Buildings 2012 (October 2012)

    Best Tall Buildings 2012 contains overviews of the nominees and winning projects from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s annual awards. The book provides vital statistics, images, plans and in depth accounts of the architectural design and sustainability features of the year’s best tall buildings. Additionally included is the official list of the World’s Tallest Buildings with the judging criteria from the foremost authority on tall buildings. Full color illustrations and photographs throughout.

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