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It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant building typology that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. In particular, the library has evolved as a vibrant and vital member of community development and as a basis for outreach efforts...This book presents 40 recent public and academic librarie...

This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” h...

.The book makes an important contribution to the understanding of architectural education in the US and its historical cross-fertilization with German educational concepts at large, with research outcomes responding directly to current and future educational and societal challenges. .A great study on how Bauhaus shaped more than just design and architecture around the world. This book examines the post-Bauhaus influence on German-born educator...

This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” h...

​"This book provides nothing short of a new blueprint for urban regeneration that responds to the pressing issues of today. Visionary and practical, it identifies key strategies for cities to realise their economic, social and environmental potential and unlock new forms of living for the many not the few." -- Professor James Evans, University of Manchester  Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Chan...

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How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is to use an energy-efficient, zero-carbon model based on renewable energy sources and building typologies. This book presents different models for sustainable urban growth, based on the principles of 'Green Urbanism'.

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities' microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transf...

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Um die Innovationspotentiale, die in der öffentlichen Wissenschaft vorhanden sind, in vollem Maße zur Wirkung zu bringen, bedarf es staatlicher Eingriffe und Anreize. Es stellt sich daher die Frage wie diese Förderung auszugestalten ist. Speziell im Bereich der Projektförderung ist in Deutschland eine umfassende Programmlandschaft entstanden. Deren verschiedene Teilprogramme werden und wurden regelmäßig Evaluationen unterzogen, allerdings stan...