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Mini Cooper 1961-2000 (2021)
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Barker, P. (2021). Mini Cooper 1961-2000. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England UK: Amberley Publishing

From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation. The world’s first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1 champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding... Read More about Mini Cooper 1961-2000.

Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age (2021)
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Mason, J. (2021). Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age. Abingdon: Routledge

Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age takes a speculative look at current and emerging technologies and examines how legal practice in the construction industry can best engage with the landscape they represent. The book builds the cas... Read More about Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age.

Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better (2020)
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Hambleton, R. (2020). Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press

The COVID-19 virus outbreak has rocked the world and it is widely accepted that there can be no return to the pre-pandemic society of 2019. However, many suggestions for the future of society and the planet are aimed at national governments, interna... Read More about Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better.

Transforming towns: Designing for smaller communities (2020)
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Jones, M. (2020). Transforming towns: Designing for smaller communities. London: RIBA Publishing

This book demonstrates how contemporary architecture, community engagement and thoughtful urban design can contribute to the creation of thriving small communities. It addresses a lack of inspiration and ideas for architects and designers and promote... Read More about Transforming towns: Designing for smaller communities.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (2019)
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Meraz, F., Rice, L., & Jones, M. (2019). F. Meraz, L. Rice, & M. Jones (Eds.), Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society. Delaware, United States: Vernon Press

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from,... Read More about Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society.

Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers (2018)
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Treadaway, C., Fennell, J., Prytherch, D., Kenning, G., Prior, A., Walters, A., & Taylor, A. (2018). Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers. Cardiff Met Press

One of the major challenges facing the world today is how to care for the increasing numbers of older people in society and help them to live well, right until the end of their lives. The World Health Organisation and Alzheimer’s International have i... Read More about Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers.

Urban Pollution: Science and Management (2018)
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Charlesworth, S. M., & Booth, C. A. (2018). Urban Pollution: Science and Management. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb

This book comprises five sections, which are collated into 31 chapters. The first part of the book provides An Introduction that offers some initial insights into the impacts and issues associated with urban pollution (Chapter 1). Since many nations... Read More about Urban Pollution: Science and Management.

Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry (2018)
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Mahdjoubi, L. (2018). L. Mahdjoubi, C. A. Brebbia, & A. Galiano (Eds.), Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry. Southampton UK: WIT Press

The selected papers in this book deal with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations. Application of BIM throughout the construction industry is progressing at an accelerated rate, with the development of new softwar... Read More about Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry.

Heritage Building Information Modelling (2017)
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Arayici, Y., Mahdjoubi, L., & Counsell, J. (2017). Heritage Building Information Modelling. Abingdon UK: Routledge

This book is about Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM). This is a term that has only begun to be used in the latter part of the last decade, since Building Information Modelling (BIM) superseded 3D digital modelling and computer aided desi... Read More about Heritage Building Information Modelling.

Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS (2016)
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Charlesworth, S. M., & Booth, C. A. (2016). Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb

This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences,... Read More about Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS.

Construction law: From beginner to practitioner (2016)
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Mason, J. (2016). Construction law: From beginner to practitioner. Routledge

An introduction to construction law suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate study.

Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 (2016)
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Manu, P., Westcott, T., & Spedding, A. (2016). A. Spedding, T. Westcott, & P. Manu (Eds.), Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016. Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy

This is the proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 jointly organised with Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) and Nigerian Institution of... Read More about Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016.

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.

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.

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.

Planning in the UK: An Introduction (2014)
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Greed, C., & Johnson, D. (2014). Planning in the UK: An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan

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.