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Price: $23.50
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Sale: $14.49
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Manufacturer: British Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Whitfield
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Publisher: British Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 911.421
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Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: A city long shrouded in literary and historical mists--not to mention real ones--London seduces tourists and natives alike. From Big Ben to the grimy Victorian streets of Dickens novels on up to the sleek high-rises that dot the skyline of the twenty-first-century metropolis, the urban landscape of London is steeped in history, while forever responsive to the changing dictates of progress, industry, and culture. In London: A Life in Maps, acclaimed historian Peter Whitfield reveals a wealth of surprising truths and forgotten facts hidden in the city’s historic maps.
Whitfield examines nearly 200 maps spanning the last 500 years, all of which vividly demonstrate the vast changes wrought on London’s streets, open spaces, and buildings. In a rich array of colorful cartographic illustrations, the maps chronicle London’s tumultuous history, from the devastation of the Great Fire to the indelible marks left by World Wars I and II to the emergence of the West End as a fashion mecca. Whitfield reads historic sketches and detailed plans as biographical keys to this complex, sprawling urban center, and his in-depth examination unearths fascinating insights into the city of black cabs and red double-deckers. With engaging prose and astute analysis he also expertly coaxes out the subtle complexities—of social history, urban planning, and design—within the rich documentation of London’s immense and constantly changing cityscape.
London: A Life in Maps lets readers wander through the past and present of London’s celebrated streets—from Abbey Road to Savile Row—and along the way reveals the city’s captivating history, vibrant culture, and potential future. (20071015)
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Price: $97.50
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Sale: $70.55
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Falk Antony::Christian Dürschner::Karl-Heinz Remmers
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 621.31244
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Publication Date: 2007-06
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Reading Level: 215
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Description: * Provides essential guidance for electricians, technicians, builders, architects and building engineers who want to get involved in this expanding industry.
* Describes the practicalities of marketing, designing and installing photovoltaic systems
* Contains over 100 full-color illustrations, numerous case studies and examples of best practice
The installation of photovoltaic systems has become a new and rapidly expanding field of activity for the building industry as interest in solar energy grows, providing excellent business prospects. Photovoltaics for Professionals describes the practicalities of working with photovoltaics, from marketing and selling photovoltaic products to designing and installing photovoltaic systems (both grid-tied and stand-alone). The book answers all the questions a beginner in the industry would need to ask, as well as serving as an ongoing work of reference. It also provides designers and installers with a practical introduction to designing and installing high quality solar electric systems and gives a comprehensive overview of the major photovoltaic market sectors. Containing over 100 full-color illustrations, figures and photographs, it offers practical step-by-step examples and an abundance of helpful tips. The appendices include essential data on standards, codes and guidelines.
Related titles
Planning and Installing Photovoltaic Systems (2005)
978-1-84407-131-9, and Applied Photovoltaics (2007) 978-1-84407-401-3
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $38.88
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roger Cusson; Jamie Cardoso
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Publisher: Focal Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.2840285536
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Publication Date: 2007-04-15
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: Bring new realism to your visualizations with a command of the 3ds Max toolset. Three step-by-step tutorials demonstrate exterior and interior, day and night lighting scenes. You learn the nuts and bolts of importing models from CAD programs, lighting, applying mr shaders and materials, and optimizing your renders. Mental ray is made simple with an accessible description of its tools.
* Color reproductions illustrate a wide array of subtle techniques.
* mental ray is made easy with accesible demonstations.
* Companion CD contains all of the project files.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edward T. Hall
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Publisher: Anchor
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.23
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Publication Date: 1990-10-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $9.93
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Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.5
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Publication Date: 2008-01-03
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Models are an essential component of the architect’s design process. As tools of translation, models assist the exploration of the possible and illustrate the actual. While models have traditionally served as representational and structural studies, they are increasingly being used to suggest and solve new spatial and structural configurations. Models, the eleventh number of the highly regarded journal 306090, explores the role of the architectural model today in relation to the idea, the diagram, the technique, and the material. Models includes contributions from engineers, scientists, poets, painters, photographers, historians, urbanists, and architects both young and experienced.
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $12.93
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Cadwell
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 724.6
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Publication Date: 2007-06-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Shortlisted for the RIBA Sir Robert McAlpine International Book Award for Construction. and Shortlisted for the 2008 RIBA International Book Awards, Architectural Practice category.
Confronted with the intricate construction details of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's Querini Stampalia Gallery—steel joined at odd intervals, concrete spilled out of concatenated forms, stone cut in labyrinthine patterns—Michael Cadwell abandoned his attempts to categorize them theoretically and resolved instead to appreciate their idiosyncrasies and evoke their all-embracing affects. What he had dismissed as a collection of fetishes he came to understand as a coherently constructed world that was nonetheless persistently strange. In Strange Details, Cadwell looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture—construction. In buildings that were pivotal in their careers, Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn all created details that undercut our critical and analytical terra firma.
Cadwell explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies's Farnsworth House, and the reinforced concrete of Kahn's Yale Center for British Art. Each of these architects, he finds, reconfigures the rudimentary facts of construction, creating a subtle but undeniable shift in a building’s physicality. And for each of them, nature is strange, and its strangeness infects; nature unmoors exhausted cultural ideas, constricted analytical procedures, and outmoded production techniques. An awakening to nature's strangeness forces a new sense of the world, one that we can detect in these architects' configurations of the world's materials—their strange details.
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Sale: $61.25
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Manufacturer: Professional Publications, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Meghan Peot::Brennan Schumacher
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Publisher: Professional Publications, Inc.
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Edition: First Edition, New Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.472
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Publication Date: 2007-09-17
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: This product was previously titled LEED-NC Solved Problems: New Construction. Knowing how to apply the LEED-NC (New Construction) 2.2 Rating System to the design and construction process is the key to passing the LEED-NC exam. Learning these skills in a review class is difficult, but LEED NC Practice Problems: New Construction gives you the preparation you need. Over 140 problems, based on four original project scenarios, assess your ability to correctly apply the technical points of the LEED-NC Rating System to design and construction projects while improving your problem-solving skills. Covers version 2.2 of the LEED for New Construction exam. Improve your LEED-NC exam performance Detailed solutions, in essay format, explain how to correctly apply the LEED-NC Rating System to a project Thorough examples of the design and construction process, and credit synergies and trade-offs help to prepare you for the exam Increase your problem-solving speed and confidence Discover Rating System categories, and Credit Intents and Requirements that require extra review Coverage of all 6 LEED-NC Rating System categories Energy and Atmosphere Indoor Environmental Quality Innovation and Design Process Materials and Resources Sustainable Sites Water Efficiency The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC®) did not participate in the development and/or publication of LEED NC Practice Problems: New Construction, and does not participate in the development or administration of the LEED exam review course. The USGBC is not affiliated with PPI. LEED and USGBC are registered trademarks of the U.S. Green Building Council. |
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $55.15
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel G. Parolek::Karen Parolek::Paul C. Crawford
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 711.4
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Publication Date: 2008-03-21
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: A comprehensive, illustrative guide to Form-Based Codes
"This volume describes in clear argument and significant detail the issues and techniques associated with the design and management of Form-Based Codes as an antidote to zoning and sprawl. Reading it and putting it to practice is an excellent point of departure for individuals and municipalities to safeguard and to grow their communities."
- From the Foreword by noted architect and urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides
Form-Based Codes are the latest evolutionary step in the practice of development and land-use regulation. A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, blocks, and public spaces in order to create, protect, and revitalize sustainable communities.
Written by three recognized leaders in the field of New Urbanism, including an urban planner and an architect, this book is the first to address this subject comprehensively. After defining Form-Based Codes and explaining why they are a necessary alternative to conventional zoning regulations, the authors detail the various components of Form-Based Codes and then go step by step through the process of creating and implementing them. Finally, a series of case studies illustrates best practice applications of Form-Based Coding at various scales from county-wide to site specific, and various project types from city-wide development code replacement to the preservation or evolution of downtowns.
This timely and accessible text features:
* More than 200 clear illustrations of Form-Based Codes
* Studies of real-world applications of Form-Based Coding by leading planners, urban designers, and architects
Form-Based Codes is a must-read for today's urban designers, urban planners, architects, and anyone with a vested interest in utilizing the latest regulatory tool to help create compact, walkable, and sustainable communities.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $18.58
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Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas J. Campanella
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.760951
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Publication Date: 2008-04-17
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, radically transforming both city and countryside in its wake. The speed and scale of China's urban revolution challenges nearly all our expectations about architecture, urbanism and city planning. China's ambition to be a major player on the global stage is written on the skylines of every major city. This is a nation on the rise, and it is building for the record books.
China is now home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and biggest shopping malls; the longest bridges and largest airport; the most expansive theme parks and gated communities and even the world's largest skateboard park. And by 2020 China's national network of expressways will exceed in length even the American interstate highway system. China's construction industry, employing a workforce equal to the population of California, has been erecting billions of square feet of housing and office space every year. But such extensive development has also meant demolition on a scale unprecedented in the peacetime history of the world. Nearly all of Beijing's centuries-old cityscape has been bulldozed in recent years, and redevelopment in Shanghai has displaced more families than 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. China's cities are also rapidly sprawling across the landscape, churning precious farmland into a landscape of superblock housing estates and single-family subdivisions laced with highways and big-box malls. In a mere generation, China's cities have undergone a metamorphosis that took 150 years to complete in the United States.
The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The book surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China's urban future.
The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world-especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $33.62
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: W. Otie Kilmer::Rosemary Kilmer::Kilmer::Stephen Hanessian
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 729
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Publication Date: 2001-02-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Provides a "real-world" perspective on the preparation of construction documents.
* Highly visual book with extensive drawings and details.
* Essential reference for NCIDQ examination.
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