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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

Island Press

Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Biophilic Cities

Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

Island Press

A biophilic city, says Beatley, is a place that learns from nature and incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes. Biophilic Cities outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements – from the building to the regional level – around the world.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Architecture of Community

Island Press

A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Designing and Building

Rockhill and Associates

Edited by Brian Carter; By Rockhill and Associates
Dalhousie Architectural Press

This book outlines twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to their more recent projects.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments

Island Press

A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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The Agile City

Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change

Island Press

In a very short time, America realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: What to do about it?

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Hylozoic Ground

Liminal Responsive Architecture

Riverside Architectural Press

Philip Beesley; edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Making Healthy Places

Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability

Island Press

Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric

UBC Press

Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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@LAB Architextile Laboratory

Electronic textiles in architecture

Dalhousie Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Stewardship of the Built Environment

Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse

Island Press

Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Fabricate 2011

Making Digital Architecture

Edited by Ruairi Glynn and Bob Sheil
Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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BattersbyHowat

Dalhousie Architectural Press

Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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How to Study Public Life

Methods in Urban Design

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Shim Sutcliffe

The Passage of Time

Dalhousie Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Tactical Urbanism

Short-term Action for Long-term Change

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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CITA works

Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Competing Modernisms

Toronto's New City Hall and Square

Dalhousie Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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