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Eco-Urbanity
Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments
There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments. Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views on urban...
Published March 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Cross-Cultural Urban Design
Global or Local Practice?
Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned...
Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
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The Green City
Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of...
Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge