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  • Fundamentals of Planning and Designing Sustainable Post-Disaster Shelters

    par Avi Friedman, Baichi Chaki ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters. With millions of people forced to flee their homes annually due to conflict, environmental disasters, or persecution, the urgency of this global crisis cannot be overstated. Since refugees often reside in temporary shelters for years after years, it is imperative to construct refugee camps ... En savoir plus

    $108.99 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design

    par Avi Friedman ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging “Baby Boomers,” and climate change. Dr. Friedman then examines these challenges through thirty chapters of interest to urban designers, architects, civil and ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Neighbourhoods

    par Avi Friedman ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    This timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world. Drawing on successful projects from London, New Mexico, Austria, and the Netherlands, "Innovative Sustainable Communities" presents planning concepts that minimize developments' carbon ... En savoir plus

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  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Renewal in Small and Mid-Sized Towns

    par Avi Friedman ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers. It divides urban renewal of small towns into sub-components such as environmental challenges, demographic trends, economic changes and cultural aspects, and aging infrastructure. In each, context is ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Global Models of Urban Planning

    Best Practices Outside the United States

    Modifié par Roger L. Kemp, Carl J. Stephani ...
    Collections series Contributions in Public Planning
    This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world. Such topics as green technology, conservation, infrastructure maintenance, alternative energy, downtown business districts, and recycling are covered, with many others. Additional information is provided for each community: population, location, website. ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security

    par FAOoftheUN ...
    This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the framework of the project "Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture", and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in ... En savoir plus

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  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    par Ken Greenberg ...
    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    par Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett ...
    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    par Ellen Dunham-Jones, June Williamson ...
    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... En savoir plus

    $60.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Modifié par Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... En savoir plus

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  • Dynamic Urban Design

    A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide

    par Michael A. von Hausen ...
    Advance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design“Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, and potential of urban design by one of Canada’s preeminent urban designers.”—David R. Witty, former dean, School of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada“Michael von Hausen has given us a clear and hopeful path to the creation of a sustainable urbanism, one that will be inspiring and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Accounting for Livestock Water Productivity: How and Why?

    par FAOoftheUN ...
    The assessment of water productivity in livestock supply chains has a critical role to play in developing productive and sustainable food production systems worldwide. In particular, the evaluation of water productivity improvement options is key to addressing growing food demand and the projected impacts of climate change under conditions where the availability of land and water resources is ... En savoir plus

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