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Handbook on green infrastructure: Planning, design and implementation (2015)
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Smith, N., Sinnett, D., & Burgess, S. (2015). D. Sinnett, N. Smith, & S. Burgess (Eds.), Handbook on green infrastructure: Planning, design and implementation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474004

© Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith and Sarah Burgess 2015. All rights reserved. Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource.... Read More about Handbook on green infrastructure: Planning, design and implementation.

Building information modelling (BIM) in design, construction and operations (2015)
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Mahdjoubi, L., Brebbia (ed), C. A., & Laing, R. (2015). Building information modelling (BIM) in design, construction and operations. Southampton: WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction, and Operations contains the proceedings of the first in a planned series of conferences dealing with design coordination, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning. The book... Read More about Building information modelling (BIM) in design, construction and operations.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being (2015)
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Barton, H., Thompson, S., Burgess, S., & Grant, M. (2015). The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being. Routledge

Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being.

Handbook on Green Infrastructure (2015)
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Sinnett, D., Smith, N., & Burgess, S. (2015). Handbook on Green Infrastructure. Edward Elgar

Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a means to make u... Read More about Handbook on Green Infrastructure.

Leading the inclusive city. Place-based innovation for a bounded planet (2015)
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Hambleton, R. (2015). Leading the inclusive city. Place-based innovation for a bounded planet. Bristol: Policy Press

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to... Read More about Leading the inclusive city. Place-based innovation for a bounded planet.

Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture (2014)
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Rice, L., & Littlefield, D. (2014). Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture. Oxford: Taylor & Francis

The potency of the word “transgress” is hardly reflected in its Latin etymology – to go or walk across. The language is benign, but symbolically loaded: to violate, to infringe, to go beyond the boundaries. To transgress is to break, violate, infring... Read More about Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture.

Water Resources for the Built Environment: Management Issues and Solutions (2014)
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Booth, C., & Charlesworth, S. (2014). Water Resources for the Built Environment: Management Issues and Solutions. Wiley Blackwell

This book comprises three parts and eight sections, which are collated into twenty–nine chapters. The first part of the book (Sections 2, 3 and 4) addresses management issues and solutions to minimise water shortages and provide water security for so... Read More about Water Resources for the Built Environment: Management Issues and Solutions.

The architecture of transgression AD (2013)
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Sara, R., & Mosley, J. (2013). R. Sara, & J. Mosley (Eds.), The architecture of transgression AD. London: Wiley

Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social... Read More about The architecture of transgression AD.

Cities and flooding: A guide to integrated urban flood risk management for the 21st century (2012)
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Jha, A., Bloch, R., & Lamond, J. (2012). Cities and flooding: A guide to integrated urban flood risk management for the 21st century. Washington, DC: GFDRR/World Bank

Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge. It is a global phenomenon which causes widespread devastation, economic damages and loss of human lives. The occurrence of floods is the most frequent among all natural disasters glob... Read More about Cities and flooding: A guide to integrated urban flood risk management for the 21st century.

Architecture + Transgression (2012)
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Rice, L. (2012). L. Rice, D. Littlefield, R. Sara, & J. Burch (Eds.), Architecture + Transgression. Bristol: The Architecture Centre

Beyond Utopia (2012)
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Mosley, J., Warren, S., & Wilson, R. (2012). J. Mosley, & S. Warren (Eds.), Beyond Utopia. Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press

Beyond Utopia is a project initiated by the collaborative practice of Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley with writer of art and architecture Robin Wilson. Initial stages of the project were funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. With re... Read More about Beyond Utopia.

London (re)generation (2012)
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Littlefield, D. (2012). D. Littlefield (Ed.), London (re)generation. John Wiley & Sons

An edition of Architectural Design (AD: January/February 2012) addressing the notion of regeneration within the context of London. This multi-contributor journal examines key regeneration initiatives in the UK capital, as well as asking if the term "... Read More about London (re)generation.

Bristol riots (2011)
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Rice, L., Davies, J., & Cains, M. (2011). Bristol riots. Bristol: Tangent Press

BRISTOL RIOTS is an examination of the demonstrations in Stokes Croft and the riot in the Spring of 2011 which took place after police raided a squatted building opposite the Tesco store. Where the national media failed to report the event that night... Read More about Bristol riots.

Law and the Built Environment (2010)
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Wood, D., Chynoweth, P., Adshead, J., & Mason, J. (2010). Law and the Built Environment. Wiley Blackwell

Law and the Built Environment is a core textbook for all students undertaking compulsory law modules on construction, real estate and property management programmes. This single text provides an accessible introduction to the many areas of law studie... Read More about Law and the Built Environment.