Or Industrial Buildings category: 915 books
by Charles Landry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
We are in the midst of redesigning the world and all its systems as we witness the biggest mass movement of people, goods, factories, frenzied finance and ideas in history. Vast flows make the new norm nomadic. Yet there is a yearning for belonging, distinctiveness and identity as the 'anytime, anyplace,...
Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns
Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
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....
Investment, Procurement and Performance in Construction
The First National RICS Research Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
The proceedings of a major conference on the built environment ran by the RICS to examine recent research and development in: investment; building procurement and construction; and building performance analysis.
by Mary S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book contains the information needed to accurately estimate parking requirements for a mixed-use center. Essential for government planners, developers, and architects, it helps to determine how many parking spaces are needed for a new development based on the types of tenants it will attract.
by Global Green USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely...
by Adrienne Schmitz, Jason Scully
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Richly illustrated with color photographs, site plans, and diagrams, this book explains how to design and develop pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.
Urban Squares
Spatio-temporal Studies of Design and Everyday Life in the Öresund Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology – the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies...
The Strip
Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself.
The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness....
by D.A. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Considers each stage in the course of an arbitration in detail, from the claimant's decision to seek the means of resolving a dispute to the arbitrator's award, explaining clearly and concisely what is expected of the claimant, respondent and arbitrator and when.
by Anita Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This comprehensive book is a practical how-to guide to developing hot retail projects such as lifestyle centers, mixed-use centers, and rehabs of failed malls. Project sizes range from small, ethnic-oriented community centers to major multilevel malls.
Prefabulous + Sustainable
Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy-Efficient Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Prefabulous and Sustainable dispels the negative myths associated with prefab homes and shows the reader how beautiful and remarkably green prefab homes are.
In this guide to prefab home-building author Sheri Koones, demystifies the prefabricated house by using 25 unique homes to showcase how...
Linking Architecture and Education
Sustainable Design for Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate...
Fabricating Architecture
Selected Readings in Digital Design and Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
In this increasingly digitized world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of fabrication. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, digital design remains a fluid concept, its development and current influence discussed in scattered articles.
Bottoms Up
A Toast to Wisconsin's Historic Bars and Breweries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Bottoms Up celebrates Wisconsin’s taverns and the breweries that fueled them. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of taverns and breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality. It traces the development of the megabreweries,...