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Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environmentsby: Peter Hall
The reality of the built environment for disabled people is one of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility, movement and access. In the United Kingdom, most homes cannot be accessed by wheelchair, while accessible transport is the exception rather than the... |
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English Architecture: A Concise Historyby: David Watkin
A broad survey of English architecture, from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the 20th century. Concentrating on buildings still visible today, Watkin emphasizes the historic high points of English creative genius. He also provides an expanded chapter on the Modern Movement and more recent styles. |
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Hip Hotels City
Hip Hotels: City didn't just identify a trend, it led it. This revised edition reflects that, introducing around a dozen stunning new hotels (all of which have opened since first publication) and at least three new city destinations (Delhi, Marrakesh and Tokyo). New hotels include One Aldwych, a... |
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Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Warsby: Paul Overy
This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that eras preoccupations with health, cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine, exploring how utopian notions of the clean machine and the hygienist movement inspired the pure geometric... |
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London: A Guide to Recent Architecture
This is the sixth edition of one of the most popular architecture books of the last decade. Each edition has followed the architectural evolution of London, documenting changes that express with amazing accuracy the social, political and economic forces at work in the capital. Radically... |
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The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovatorsby: Charles Landry
Cities have always been the crucible of culture and civilization and the hubs of wealth creation. But today they face enormous challenges. Over half the world's population already lives in cities and the proportion is set to grow rapidly. Compounded by infrastructural, economic and social... |
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Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized Worldby: Jane Schneider
Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to... |
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Future:Cityby: Jurgen Rosemann
This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connotations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant... |
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The Modernist Homeby: Tim Benton
"The Modernist house" was a test of modern architects' ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist Home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living."The Modernist house" dissolved the closed spaces of the... |
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The Environmental Brief: Pathways for Green Designby: Mark Thompson
The built environment is responsible for an estimated forty-five per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. As the greatest opportunities for reducing these emissions occur during the briefing and design processes, the pathway to better design lies in preparing environmental briefs, and using... |
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