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This book provides a deep insight into urban regeneration schemes and explores the parameters of what is deemed a sustainable development, before appraising existing schemes' evaluation models for the sustainable return on investment.

This guide invites landscape architects and urban designers to become soundscape architects and offers practical advice on sound and listening applicable to each stage of a design project.

Offers tools to help architects evidence, develop and communicate value to those outside the field, strengthening their ability to pitch for work, access new funding streams and prove architecture's key contribution to society.

This practical book focuses on the basic concepts underlying the technical aspects of quantity surveying and contains many worked examples together with useful figures and real-life cases to help readers digest and understand the essentials and become better professionals as a result.

This book takes a critical view of the real cost of green building. It provides readers with a non-biased evaluation based on empirical construction cost data, and sheds light on the affordability of sustainable buildings.

Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice.

Suitable for the people studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields, this title provides them with: 10,000 definitions with over 2,000 illustrations; comprehensive cross referencing system; and, clear presentation of information for the visual reader.

Presents 40 case studies of detailing on the construction projects. Featuring over 150 color drawings and photos, this title includes detailing case studies from the UK, on big and small architectural projects. It is suitable for the professional architects.