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  • Innovative Houses

    Concepts for Sustainable Living

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the non-traditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources. Designing residential environments that address these issues is an urgent priority.This book examines the latest ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing

    Fostering Sustainability and Livability

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. This book highlights innovative planning strategies for livability and wellbeing of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sole Survivor

    A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation and Survival

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father’s journey through the Holocaust and find his family’s genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which they were imprisoned and killed. Avi finds powerful ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Affordable Housing for Livable Cities

    by Avi Friedman, Genessa Bates ...
    The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable. Written by a team of a planner and an architect, each of the book’s chapters stands for a subject in the design process moving from urban scale to that of a home and includes richly illustrated case studies ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fundamentals of Planning and Designing Sustainable Post-Disaster Shelters

    by Avi Friedman, Baichi Chaki ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living

    by Avi Friedman, Alexandra Pollock ...
    The obesity crisis has affected many nations. It is also one of the factors listed as contributing cause to the COVID-19 fatalities. The common tendency is to blame people’s dietary choices and sedentary habits. Yet, it can also be argued that social inequity and poor urban planning practices have largely contributed to a lack of active lifestyles. Low-density suburban sprawl, long commutes, food ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods

    by Avi Friedman ...
    This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book’s fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices.Past approaches to planning and design ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Town and Terraced Housing

    For Affordability and Sustainability

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient affordable living.Townhouses have been used for hundreds of years, and their evolution is ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sustainable Lessons from People-Friendly Places

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call for innovative thinking. In a world that is becoming highly urbanized, the need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental global changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The book introduces fundamental principles of timely ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns

    Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world’s population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Common approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. Rather than dismissing small and mid-sized towns as unattractive suburban sprawl, Planning Small ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Sustainable Digital City

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world. Seven axes of urban planning have been selected to highlight how data and technology currently work and how these systems can be improved going forward. Each aspect is explored in its own chapter that combines narrative description, illustrations, and case studies to show how ... Read more

    $98.99 USD