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Author : Jain Malkin Published by John Wiley & Sons Publication date : April 2002 ISBN : 0471385743 PDF 627 pages English Original File Size : 25303 KB Compressed File Size : 21959 KB

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This definitive reference offers detailed analyses of more than thirty medical and dental specialties and their respective space planning requirements.New to the third edition is coverage of new medical specialties including reproductive enhancement, LASIX eye surgery, breast care centers, larger ambulatory centers, and medical oncology. It also offers up-to-date information on digital technology-electronic medical records, digital imaging, diagnostic instruments, and networked communications-and how it impacts the design of medical and dental facilities. You’ll also find out about recent changes in regulatory agency reviews of office-based surgery practices and ADA compliance.

Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Design "Daniel Williams’s Sustainable Design is . . . a thoroughly practical call for the design professions to take the next steps toward transformation of the human prospect toward a future that is sustainable and sustaining of the best in human life lived in partnership not domination." –From the Foreword by David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College "In this pioneering book, Daniel Williams provides the sort of intelligent, thoughtful, experienced insights that–if followed–will ensure that we make the right choices. It should be on the desk ofevery architect in the world." –Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation and coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 Architects identify "sustainability" as the most important change in the future of theirprofession. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical, comprehensive guide to design and plan a built environment compatible with the region’s economic, social, and ecological patterns. In this book, DanielWilliams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope,Sustainable Design answers key questions such as: * How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? * What is the difference between "green design" and "sustainable design"? * Whatare some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this importantresource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects’ and urban planners’ work. Williams’s bookfeatures winning projects from the first decade of the AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.

Publisher: Kodansha International ISBN: 477001712X edition 1998 PDF 204 pages 133,4 mb

Gardens and their related architecture have always been designed in Japan, China, and Korea as a single, cohesive environment. The particular forms that these environments took over the centuries naturally reflect each country’s differing aesthetic principles, but were also governed by other concerns–from religious beliefs and social structure to simple spatial or climatic constraints. In his exploration of the history of garden design in the Far East, Toshiro Inaji offers a fascinating study of changing cultural and aesthetic values.

The Garden As Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea

Green Cities: Urban Growth And the Environment Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815748167 edition 2006 PDF 160 pages 12,7 mb

Rapid urban growth and suburban sprawl have heightened concern in many quarters about sustainable development. Are economic growth and environmental health always mutually exclusive goals? Nearly everyone would choose to pursue both given the chance, but many believe that it would be overly optimistic—perhaps naïve—to expect both.