Built environment : design, management and applications
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Built environment : design, management and applications
（Environmental science, engineering and technology series）
Nova Science, c2010
- : hbk.
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Many cities of the developing countries have, for a long time, been burdened with the sprawling squatter settlements constituted of insanitary spaces in ad-hoc structures, overcrowded and inappropriate to the contemporary standards of living. This book presents a novel approach to transforming a number of old squatter settlement into condominium high rises. The problems and potentials for creating sustainable habitats in place of squatter settlements in cities are highlighted. This book also outlines a quantitative study of the holistic thermal capacity of examples of vernacular from a wide range of climates and locations around the world, comparing the results for a range of climate classificatory scales.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Rhetoric & Reality of Culture-Led Urban Regeneration: A Comparison of Beijing & Shanghai, China
- Rural Gentrification & the Built Environment: Exploring the Connections
- The Mathematics of Style in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Computational, Fractal Analysis of Formal Complexity in Fifteen Domestic Designs
- The User of the 3D Scanner in the Built Environment
- Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Approaches to Architectural Analysis: New Methods for Investigating the Built Environment
- Creating sustainable habitats for the urban poor: Redesigning slums into condominium high rises in Colombo
- Uncomfortable, Adjustable Tradition: Lessons for Contemporary Building
- A Secondary Mortgage Market in Ghana: Antidote or Poison?
- Far, Far Away: Trip Distances & Mode Choice in the Context of Residential Self-Selection & the Built Environment
- On the Empirics of Housing Illegality: A Case Study in Hong Kong
- Understanding the Impact of the Environment on Physical Activity
- Potential Reuse of Contaminated Soils in the Built Environment
- Intergenerational Housing as a New Vector of Social Cohesion
- Augmented Reality: A Novel Approach to Interfacing Building Information Modelling Servers for Design Collaboration
- Mayors in Ghana: 'Public' Servants or Agents of Capital?
- Gentrification in Globalization: Forces to be Explored in Chinese Cities
- Index.
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