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Taylor & Francis Ltd Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future
Book SynopsisSince the spread of classical design and construction amongst the upper echolons of British society in the late seventeenth century, traditional construction methods have largely fallen by the wayside. Centuries later, as the construction industry faces up to its environmental responsibilities, this book explores its rich and ancient tradition to provide tried and trusted solutions to modern day construction problems.By way of introduction, the ancient and historical lifestyles that dictated the nature of traditional construction are explored, before focussing on its health and ecological benefits. As well as cultural background, this book includes a detailed scientific description of traditional building materials and their constituents which draws a sharp contrast with modern petrochemical-based materials. The studies of traditional buildings included reveal the sustainability of features such as natural ventilation and breathing walls, and comparisons withTrade Review'Inclusion of a detailed study of how traditional methods related to current building regulations make this a practical and useful guide for construction professionals, as well as ammunition for the informed client.' Ancient Monuments Society'This is a timely, thoughtful consideration of the true impacts of modern materials, and of the practicalities of achieving the same ends by other means. It will also serve as a useful source of reference when dealing with particular aspects of traditional building design and materials, whether as an architect, surveyor, owner or advisor.' Context, the journal of the IHBC'This is an incredibly important book, all the more so for its timing...Ryan gives us here the essential text for considering twenty-first century values in pre-twentieth century construction.' Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 'Carole Ryan's book is a timely publication, well-suited to students of building conservation'Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings MagazineTable of Contents1. The Natural Way of Life, the Birth of the Traditional House and its Demise 2. Traditional Building Materials, their Sustainability, and the Contrast with Modern Materials 3. Traditional Sustainable Building Construction- Ancient and Modern 4. Thermal Performance and the Breathing Wall 5. Climate, Site and Thermal Performance 6. The Role of the Building Regulations in Traditional Building Construction 7. The Pathology of Traditional Buildings
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Taylor & Francis Sustainable Timber Design
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Taylor & Francis Sustainable Timber Design
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Taylor & Francis Planning After Petroleum
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Taylor & Francis Planning After Petroleum
Book SynopsisThe past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable cities to address the challenges of moving beyond oil? How might a shift away from petroleum provide opportunities to improve or remake cities for the economic, social and environmental imperatives of twenty-first-century sustainability?Such questions are the focus of contributors to this book with perspectives ranging across the planning challenge: overarching petroleum futures, governance, transition and climate change questions, the role ofTrade Review"When future generations look back on today’s struggle to move off oil as the lifeblood of global society, they will wonder why it took so long for people to see the writing on the wall and find a better way to power the engines of human endeavor. This volume makes an important contribution to that writing on the wall and presents promising tools needed to deal with our energy problems. If contemporary economic and political leaders can learn from the thoughtful approaches in this book, the inevitable post-carbon future that awaits will bring a brighter day for human civilization."Anthony Perl, Professor of Urban Studies & Political Science, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsForewordBrendan GleesonIntroduction1. Investigating Cities After Oil: Planning for Systemic Urban Oil VulnerabilityJago Dodson, Neil Sipe and Anitra NelsonPart I. Energy Horizons2. A Stormy Petroleum Horizon: Cities and Planning Beyond Oil Jago Dodson3. The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper it is, the More It CostsSamuel Alexander 4. Institutional Planning Responses to a Confluence of Oil Vulnerability and Climate ChangeTony Matthews and Jago Dodson 5. Energy Security and Oil Vulnerability ResponsesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe6. Post-Petroleum Urban JusticeWendy Steele, Lisa de Kleyn and Katelyn SamsonPart II. Transport and Land Use7. Walking the CityJohn Whitelegg8. Cycling Potential in Dispersed CitiesJennifer Bonham and Matthew Burke 9. Children’s Active Transport: An Upside of Oil Vulnerability?Scott Sharpe and Paul Tranter10. Public Transport Networks in the Post-Petroleum EraJohn Stone and Paul Mees11. Oil and Mortgage Vulnerability in Australian CitiesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe12. Outer Suburbs, Car Dependence and Residential Choice in FranceBenjamin Motte-Baumvol and Leslie Belton-Chevallier13. Greenspace After Petroleum: From Freeways to GreenwaysJason ByrneIII. Urban Systems14. Local Energy Plans for Transitions to a Low Carbon FutureBrendan F.D. Barrett and Ralph Horne15. Motor Vehicle Fleets in Oil Vulnerable Suburbs: A Prospect of Technology InnovationsTiebei Li, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson16. Energy for CitiesCheryl Desha and Angela Reeve17. The Role of Telecommunication in Post-Petroleum Planning Tooran Alizadeh18. Peak Oil: Challenges and Changes for the Air Transport IndustryDouglas Baker, Nicholas Stevens and Md. KamruzzamanConclusion19. Planning and Petroleum Futures: Research DirectionsNeil Sipe, Jago Dodson and Anitra NelsonIndex
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Taylor & Francis Relational Architectural Ecologies
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Taylor & Francis Green Infrastructure
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Taylor & Francis Green Infrastructure
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Taylor & Francis Adaptable Architecture Theory and practice
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Taylor & Francis Ecohouse
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Taylor & Francis Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems
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Taylor & Francis Design Education for a Sustainable Future
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Taylor & Francis Design Education for a Sustainable Future
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Climate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate and Architecture
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Taylor & Francis The EcoEdge
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Taylor & Francis The EcoEdge
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Taylor & Francis Design and Construction of HighPerformance Homes
Book SynopsisBoth professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: architectural innovations in building skin technologies which make lighter more transparent buildings high performing energy-free architectural design principles and advances in building-integrated photovoltaics essential engineering principles, controls and approaches to simulation for achieving net zero the advantages of integrated design in residential construction and the challenges and opportunities it engenders detailed case studies of innovative homes which have incorporated low-energy design solutions, new materials, alternative building assemblies, digital fabrication, integrated engineering systems and operational controls. <Trade Review"To prevent the worst of climate change, high-performance buildings are now a necessity, and this book is a great resource to make such buildings a reality. It clearly recognizes that high performance is not just a technical challenge, but also requires an understanding of people's behaviors and the complexity of social arrangements."Norbert Lechner, Auburn University, USA"From design and analysis, to project construction and delivery, to new materials and techniques, the book carefully collects top authors, content, and case studies to help explicate what the editor describes as "energy-free architectural design". As well illustrated as it is written, this book convincingly merges the range of historical, technical, theoretical, and architectural obligations that presuppose our understanding of higher-performance buildings." Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA"This book insightfully spans some difficult gaps that have hindered our ecological aspirations in residential design: between the warm sense of home and the cold hard benchmarks of performance; from aesthetic to ethical considerations, between the hardware and the integrated systems; between available technology and material construction; and between simulation models and real-world cases"Leonard Bachman, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, USA"To prevent the worst of climate change, high-performance buildings are now a necessity, and this book is a great resource to make such buildings a reality. It clearly recognizes that high performance is not just a technical challenge, but also requires an understanding of people's behaviors and the complexity of social arrangements."Norbert Lechner, Auburn University, USA"From design and analysis, to project construction and delivery, to new materials and techniques, the book carefully collects top authors, content, and case studies to help explicate what the editor describes as "energy-free architectural design". As well illustrated as it is written, this book convincingly merges the range of historical, technical, theoretical, and architectural obligations that presuppose our understanding of higher-performance buildings." Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA"This book insightfully spans some difficult gaps that have hindered our ecological aspirations in residential design: between the warm sense of home and the cold hard benchmarks of performance; from aesthetic to ethical considerations, between the hardware and the integrated systems; between available technology and material construction; and between simulation models and real-world cases"Leonard Bachman, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Household Power: How Much is Enough? Part 1: Building Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design 1.1. Energy Free’ Architectural Design – The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades 1.2. Translucent Building Skins – Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission 1.3. Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms 1.4. Nano-Materials + Bio Insulators + Phase Change Materials Part 2: Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations 2.1. The Design Integration of Renewable Energies 2.2. Systems Integrated Photovoltaics, SIPV 2.3. Building Systems, Controls and Automation 2.4. Building Performance and Computational Simulation Part 3: Integrated Practice and Residential Construction 3.1. Integrated Project Delivery – Contracting for High Performance 3.2. Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining the Team of Experts 3.3. The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated Housing in Denmark 3.4. From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies 4.1. LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System 4.2. Project Icarus: Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof 4.3. North House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System 4.4. Modular Building; Three Scales/Three Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mass Customisation and Personalisation in Architecture and Construction
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Taylor & Francis Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
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Taylor & Francis Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Skycourt and Skygarden Greening the Urban Habitat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Skycourt and Skygarden Greening the urban habitat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Buildings
Book SynopsisThe âfit for purposeâ of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on âsustainable buildingsâ is relatively new. The last two decades in particular have seen an explosion of published material on the design, construction and assessment of buildings purported to be âsustainable.â Many governments and owners of buildings now routinely require their buildings be âsustainableâ and are certified to be so. In the case of sustainability certification, the recent growth in tools, techniques and assessment systems is phenomenal: even as early as 2005 there were over 600 such tools in different parts of the world! New ones sprout all the time and design guides attempt a losing battle to keep pace.This new title in Routledgeâs Major Works series brings together authoritative canonical and cutting edge reference work to establish a framework for easy comprehension of the vast and continually expanding subject matter. It is a four-volume reference work and an indispensable research tool for all interested researchers, students, building owners and policy-makers to gain a thorough understanding of the field. It showcases a variety of approaches to sustainable buildings from around the world and links these to on-site construction practices and assessment. Comprehensive introductions to each volume place the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and global practice context.
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Taylor & Francis Sustainable Fashion and Textiles
Book SynopsisPraise for the previous edition:[A] fascinating book. John Thackara, Doors of PerceptionProvides the foundations for a radical new perspective. Ethical PulseAt last a book that dispels the idea that fashion is only interested in trend-driven fluff: not only does it have a brain, but it could be a sustainable one. Lucy Siegle, Crafts Magazine Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys continues to define the field of design in fashion and textiles. Arranged in two sections, the first four chapters represent key stages of the lifecycle: material cultivation/extraction, production, use and disposal. The remaining four chapters explore design approaches for altering the scale and nature of consumption, including service design, localism, speed and user involvement. While each chapter is complete in and of itself, their real value comes from what they repreTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1: Sustainable Fashion and Textile Products 1. Material Diversity 2. Ethically Made 3. Use Matters 4. Reuse, Recycling and Zero Waste Part 2: Sustainable Fashion and Textile Systems 5. Fashion, Needs and Consumption 6. Local and Light 7. Speed 8. User Maker Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Sustainable Fashion and Textiles
Book SynopsisPraise for the previous edition:[A] fascinating book. John Thackara, Doors of PerceptionProvides the foundations for a radical new perspective. Ethical PulseAt last a book that dispels the idea that fashion is only interested in trend-driven fluff: not only does it have a brain, but it could be a sustainable one. Lucy Siegle, Crafts MagazineFully revised and updated, the second edition of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys continues to define the field of design in fashion and textiles. Arranged in two sections, the first four chapters represent key stages of the lifecycle: material cultivation/extraction, production, use and disposal. The remaining four chapters explore design approaches for altering the scale and nature of consumption, including service design, localism, speed and user involvement. While each chapter is complete in and of itself, their real value comes from what they represent together: innovative ways of thinking about textiles and garments based on sustainability values and an interconnected approach to design.Including a new preface, updated content and a new conclusion reflecting and critiquing developments in the field, as well as discussing future developments, the second edition promises to provide further impetus for future change, sealing Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys as the must-buy book for fashion and textiles professionals and students interested in sustainability.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1: Sustainable Fashion and Textile Products 1. Material Diversity 2. Ethically Made 3. Use Matters 4. Reuse, Recycling and Zero Waste Part 2: Sustainable Fashion and Textile Systems 5. Fashion, Needs and Consumption 6. Local and Light 7. Speed 8. User Maker Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook
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Taylor & Francis Low Impact Living
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Taylor & Francis Low Impact Living
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ReNew Town
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Taylor & Francis Green Buildings Pay Design Productivity and Ecology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Two Degrees The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Two Degrees The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
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Taylor & Francis Altruism by Design
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Taylor & Francis Altruism by Design How To Effect Social Change as an Architect
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Architectural Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Architectural Design
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Taylor & Francis Life Cycle Assessment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Places of the Soul Architecture and environmental
Book SynopsisFor Christopher Day, architecture isnât just about the appearance of buildings but how theyâre experienced as places to be in. Occupantsâ experience can differ radically from designersâ intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings donât also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies wonât be used efficiently. This major revision of his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets, and 25 years hands-on building.Treating buildings as environments intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Dayâs departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike. Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture books of recent timesProfessor Tom Wooley, Architects JournalThe 'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.Centre for Alternative Technology... an inspiration to all those who care about the influence of the environment on Manâs health and well-being.Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical NetworkAt last an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects of buildings on all our lives.Hereâs HealthThis gentle book offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern construction. I was inspired.Colin Amery, The Financial TimesTable of ContentsForeword by HRH Prince Charles Preface 2002: New Millenium: New Issues Preface 2012: Soul in our eco-crisis age 1. Architecture: Does It Matter? 2. How environment affects us 3. Place: placemaking and place-generation 4. Space for Living In: shape, form, space and life 5. Lines: material realities or bearers of energy? 6. Qualities and Quantities 7. The senses: gateways to the world 8. Light: nourishment for body and soul 9. Spirit of place, of project, of buildings 10. Ensouling Buildings 11. Conversation or Conflict? 12. Architecture as Art 13. Architecture With Health-Giving Intent 14. Healing Silence: the Architecture of Peace 15. Soul or survival? 16. Building for Planetary Health 17. Building for Human Health 18. Design as a Listening Process: Co-creating Places 19. Building as a Health-Giving Process 20. Children and Environment 21. Accessibility for All: Compromise for Soul? 22. Urban life, Urban needs 23. Development: continuity-destruction or place-improvement? 24. Urban problems: urban opportunities 25. Eco-cities: achievable or utopian dream? 26. Building for Tomorrow Appendix 1. Lazure: inexpensive technique Appendix 2. Target pricing examples Appendix 3. Hand-finished Plastering List of photographs Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Building Futures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Solid Wood
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Taylor & Francis Architecture Beyond Criticism
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Taylor & Francis Lighting Design
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Taylor & Francis The One Planet Life
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Taylor & Francis The One Planet Life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Directions in Sustainable Design
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