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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers project managers academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects the book addresses some key themes challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking organisational and individual identity storytelling and narration. The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as ‘innovation’ and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today. | Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

GBP 44.99
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Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. The need for life cycle assessment to inform environmental design within the built environment is critical due to the complex range of materials and processes required to construct and manage our buildings and infrastructure systems. After outlining the framework for life cycle assessment this book uses a range of case studies to demonstrate the innovative input-output-based hybrid approach for compiling a life cycle inventory. This approach enables a comprehensive analysis of a broad range of resource requirements and environmental outputs so that the potential environmental impacts of a building or infrastructure system can be ascertained. These case studies cover a range of elements that are part of the built environment including a residential building a commercial office building and a wind turbine as well as individual building components such as a residential-scale photovoltaic system. Comprehensively introducing and demonstrating the uses and benefits of life cycle assessment for built environment projects this book will show you how to assess the environmental performance of your clients’ projects to compare design options across their entire life and to identify opportunities for improving environmental performance. | Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

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Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways. This unrivalled edited collection of chapters analyses problems and presents possible solutions related to the employment and conditions of workers in the construction industry. It provides comprehensive coverage of the relationship between the global workforce and the built environment and is divided into four topical areas: how labour and the built environment relate to development; employment generation in the built environment; quality of employment in the built environment; and the impact of the built environment on labour in other sectors. Underpinning the entire book is the premise that the way the built environment is produced and its main products – buildings cities and towns – have an impact on large numbers of workers. At the same time the quality of the built environment requires construction workers who are well trained and with good working conditions. While cities and towns are the engines of economic growth they will not be able to fulfil their economic potential if poverty in the workforce is not addressed. Those who are unemployed underemployed or work in unfavourable conditions cannot fully contribute to production and at the same time are limited in their ability to purchase goods and services – therefore limiting economic growth and restricting improvements in their living standards. In addition investments in infrastructure housing and inner-city redevelopment cannot be sustainable if labour issues – i. e. poverty – are not addressed. This book aims at analysing this complex set of issues comprehensively and will be essential reading to a wide range of researchers across the interdisciplinary intersections of construction business and management economic development urban studies sociology political science and project management. | Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

GBP 160.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment including buildings urban areas and cities and construction materials and components. Split into five distinct sections international experts researchers and professionals present the recent developments in the field of embodied carbon from various perspectives and at different scales of material building and city. Following an introduction to the embodied carbon question the chapters in Section 1 then cover the key debates around issues such as the politics of embodied carbon links between embodied carbon and thermal mass and the misuse of carbon offsets. Section 2 reviews the embodied carbon policies in a selected number of countries. Sections 3 4 and 5 approach the topic of embodied carbon from urban- building- and material-scale perspectives respectively and use case studies to demonstrate estimation techniques and present opportunities and challenges in embodied carbon mitigation. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers in Architecture Urban Planning Engineering and Construction disciplines. Presenting case studies of embodied carbon assessment this book will also help practicing architects engineers and urban planners understand embodied carbon estimation techniques and different mitigation strategies. | The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

GBP 205.00
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Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially. However with no dedicated mixed methods research design textbook in this domain students have struggled to conduct research projects involving a mixed methods research design. Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment provides a useful research methodology resource for students academics and researchers across various disciplines in the built environment such as construction management and project management property and real estate management quantity surveying and commercial management building surveying building services engineering civil and geodetic engineering and other built environment disciplines. The book can also be useful for students and academics outside the built environment knowledge domain. This textbook offers practical and step-by-step guidance on how to apply mixed methods research design including an elucidation of the various philosophical and methodological underpinnings upon which the choice of a particular variant of the mixed methods research design is predicated. It provides practical case examples and guidance on the processes involved to design and undertake mixed methods research the advantages and disadvantages of using mixed methods research and how multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative data can be combined and applied to carry out research projects.

GBP 42.99
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Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Winner of the 2020 IDEC award Homelessness and the Built Environment provides a practical introduction to the effective physical design of homes and other facilities that assist unhoused persons in countries identified as middle- to high-income. It considers the supportive role that design can play for unhoused persons and other users and argues that the built environment is an equal partner alongside other therapies and programs for ending a person’s state of homelessness. By exploring issues trends and the unique potential of built environments this book moves the needle of what is possible to assist people experiencing trauma. Examining important architectural and interior architectural design considerations in detail within emergency shelters transitional shelters permanent supportive housing day centers and multi-service complexes such as space planning choices circulation and wayfinding visibility lighting and materials and finishes it provides readers with both curated conclusions from empirical knowledge and experienced designers’ perspectives. Homelessness and the Built Environment is an imperative and singular reference for interior designers architects and building renovation sponsors design researchers and students forging new discoveries and policy makers who seek to assist communities affected by homelessness. | Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

GBP 31.99
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i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

The conference presented a multidisciplinary interactive forum to researchers students academicians industry professionals policymakers and scientists focusing on three key tracks namely Architecture and Built Environment Planning and Practices and Design and Society. Presenters shared experiences research results and scholarly contributions and discussed the practical challenges encountered and solutions to be adopted. The selected contributions are enclosed within the proceedings. | i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

GBP 38.99
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Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers ‘see’ subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to analyze designs before they are built this new edition brings readers up-to-date on scientific tools relevant for assessing architecture and the human experience of the built environment. The new edition includes: Over 100 full color photographs and drawings to illustrate key concepts. A new chapter on using biometrics to understand the human experience of place. A conclusion describing how the book’s propositions reframe the history of modern architecture. A compelling read for students professionals and the general public Cognitive Architecture takes an inside-out approach to design arguing that the more we understand human behavior the better we can design and plan for it. | Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

GBP 39.99
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Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth. In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development. This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same. The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques. It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden. In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth-altering cataclysmic disaster. The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design. | Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

GBP 39.99
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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region. As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic the future trajectories for living environments city-making processes and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners positioning the Arctic as a dynamic diverse and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban architecture and landscape systems and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic. This is a unique resource for researchers creative practitioners policymakers and community decision-makers as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

GBP 35.99
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Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on the authors’ wide range of experience to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement. It considers the ways that we interact with our environments presenting a comprehensive account of how people negotiate and use the urban landscape. Set within current debates concerning urban futures societal issues sustainable cities health and well-being the book explores our innate need for contact with the natural world through biophilic design thinking to expand our knowledge base and promote a wider understanding of the importance of these interactions on our collective well-being. It responds to questions such as what are the urban qualities that support our well-being? As an urbanised society what are the environmental determinants that promote healthy and satisfying lifestyles? Beginning with an overview of concepts relating to biophilia and environmental engagement it moves through current theory and practice different pathways and their characteristics before presenting real world examples and applications through illustrated case studies in different world situations. With a particular focus on the experience of individuals the book is essential reading for students researchers and practitioners of architecture landscape architecture urban planning design and health sciences interested in the future of our cities and the importance of green spaces. | Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

GBP 34.99
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Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear concise easy-to-read format. This book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social cultural ecological and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of the book is themed around the origins principles and frameworks of sustainable design aimed at inspiring a deeper broader and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry adaptation and resilience health and well-being. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global urban district building and human scale illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span the context of time space and varied perspectives. This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative coevolutionary model for sustainable design. By allowing the reader an insightful look into the history motivations and values of sustainable design they begin to see sustainable design not only as a way to deliver green buildings but as a comprehensive and transformative meta-framework that is so needed in every sector of society. Supported by online resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.

GBP 46.99
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Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students is a step-by-step guide to get students through their final year research project. Trusted and developed over three previous editions the new fourth edition shows you how to select a dissertation topic write a proposal conduct a literature review select the research approach gather the data analyse and present the information and ultimately produce a well-written dissertation. The book simplifies dissertation research and writing into a process involving a sequence of learnable activities and divides the process into three parts. Part One covers the necessary groundwork including: identifying the problem writing a proposal and reviewing the literature. Part Two covers the research design and includes: approaches and techniques for data collection and constructing and sampling a questionnaire. Part Three covers: measurement of data analysis of data with SPSS structuring and writing the whole dissertation and supervision and assessment. This new edition is packed with updated examples and research samples making this the ideal resource for students involved in research in built environment subjects such as construction management construction project management facilities management real estate building surveying quantity surveying and civil engineering.

GBP 36.99
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Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving planning designing funding constructing occupying and managing the built environment to face the challenges and grasp the opportunities that lie ahead over the next few decades. Four major themes form the basis of the volume: (1) Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place. (2) Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership. (3) Innovation Reform and Exemplars. (4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations. Within these structural themes are a diverse range of 'Discourses' addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today – whether by organisations individuals cities or communities – to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students practitioners agencies and corporations across the built environment especially in the fields of urban planning real estate development architecture civil engineering and construction. | Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

GBP 34.99
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A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction demonstrating how integral structures such as pavements and walls constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design. The book discusses how these structures enable assist and care for people negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosystems and the soil on which they are founded. They articulate spatial functional cultural and ecological meanings. Within this theoretical framework designers will learn to recognize and insert a set of core values into the most technical design stages to reach their full potential. By offering a new perspective on landscape construction moving away from the exclusively technical characteristics this book allows landscape architects to realise the ideal vision for their designs. It is abundantly illustrated with examples from which designers can learn both successes and failures and will be an essential companion to any study of built landscapes. | A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

GBP 36.99
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Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

First published in 1988 this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up modified and carried out. The author explores the world-view of architects and planners considering their approach to design and the factors which influence this — work patterns career paths and the firms in which they operate. The author also studies their place in the political decision-making process as it affects urban questions and then explores how architects and planners roles are changing. | Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

GBP 24.99
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Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage Concepts and Cases of an Emerging Discipline

Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage Concepts and Cases of an Emerging Discipline

Adaptive reuse – the process of repairing and restoring existing buildings for new or continued use – is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. As mounting demographic economic and ecological challenges limit opportunities for new construction architects increasingly focus on transforming and adapting existing buildings. This book introduces adaptive reuse as a new discipline. It provides students and professionals with the understanding and the tools they need to develop innovative and creative approaches helping them to rethink and redesign existing buildings – a skill which is becoming more and more important. Part I outlines the history of adaptive reuse and explains the concepts and methods that lie behind new design processes and contemporary practice. Part II consists of a wide range of case studies representing different time periods and strategies for intervention. Iconic adaptive reuse projects such as the Caixa Forum in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam are discussed alongside less famous and spontaneous transformations such as the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin in addition to projects from Italy Spain Croatia Belgium Poland and the USA. Featuring over 100 high-quality color illustrations Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage is essential reading for students and professionals in architecture interior design heritage conservation and urban planning. | Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage Concepts and Cases of an Emerging Discipline

GBP 38.99
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Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined produced or experienced through architecture and urbanism. Drawing on historical global examples this rich collection of essays illustrates how empires nations and cities expand their frontiers and contest boundaries but equally how borderline identities of people and places influence or expose these processes. Empirical chapters covering Central Asia the Asia Pacific region the American continent Europe and the Middle East offer multiple critical insights into the ways in which our spatial imagination is contingent on ‘border-thinking’; on the ways of being and navigating frontiers boundaries and margins the three themes used to organise their content. The underlying premise of the book is that sensitisation to border conditions can alter our understanding of the static physical spaces that service political or cultural ideologies and that the view from the periphery opens up new ways of understanding sovereignty. In exploring these various spaces and their transformative subjectivities this book also reveals the unrelenting precarity of contesting and living on the margins and related spaces and discourses that are neglected or suppressed. | Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

GBP 38.99
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The Construction of Built Heritage A North European Perspective on Policies Practices and Outcomes

The Construction of Built Heritage A North European Perspective on Policies Practices and Outcomes

This title was first published in 2002. Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England Sweden and The Netherlands - this captivating book explores the process of heritage conservation from theoretical initiation to practical expression. It traces the threads from the origination of conservation ideas by innovative individuals their adoption by voluntary groups identified with particular conservation aims to the inclusion of conservation policies in national legislation and international convention. A common cultural heritage underpins the diffusion of ideas across different systems within a similar time-scale. The ideas have been assimilated and adopted to differing degrees providing the opportunity for questioning both the strength and purpose in heritage conservation and the influence of the social and political context. This will be a stimulating read for an international audience of conservationists heritage policy makers conservation architects planners and developers urban design and planning scholars and European and cultural studies academics. | The Construction of Built Heritage A North European Perspective on Policies Practices and Outcomes

GBP 31.99
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How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread closely read conventionally read and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in from the inside-out and from the position of out-and-out or formal architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design landscape design and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir scenography criticality atmosphere tectonics inhabitation type form and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context addresses its performative exigencies and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context. | How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

GBP 35.99
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Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by posthole brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental architectural traditions of the region to instead investigate the creativity subtlety and variability of common architecture and the people who built and dwelled in them. At the heart of this study of vernacular architecture is an emphasis on ordinary people and their built environments and how these everyday spaces were pivotal in the making and meaning of social and cultural dynamics. Providing a deeper and more nuanced temporal perspective of common buildings in the Americas the editors have deftly framed a study that highlights sociocultural diversity while at the same time facilitating broader comparative conversations around the theme of vernacular architecture. With diverse case studies covering a broad range of periods and regions Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship on the indigenous architecture of the Americas and is a key contribution to our archaeological understandings of past built environments.

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A History of Colombian Economic Thought The Economic Ideas that Built Modern Colombia

A History of Colombian Economic Thought The Economic Ideas that Built Modern Colombia

Ever since the quest for independence between 1810 and 1819 economic thought in Colombia has been shaped by policy debates and characterized by a pragmatic and eclectic approach. Economic thought in Colombia can only be revealed through the exploration of economists’ practices and the role of economic arguments within broader public debate. This history of Colombian economic thought provides a detailed account of major issues that have marked the constant feedback between economic ideas and economic practice in Colombia during the 19th and 20th centuries. This volume is thus a history of the interaction between ideas and policy. Those involved in these debates – politicians public officials journalists and latterly professional economists – established direct contact with what can be identified as the centers of production of economic theory (both in Europe and the US) and entered regional and local networks in economics but were not just importers of ideas or theories. The way in which they read discussed transformed and applied economic theories in Colombia makes for a rich environment for the production and implementation of economic policies that drew diverged and transformed the way economics was understood and used as a source of knowledge for practical concerns. This is why the history of Colombian economic thought does not fit into traditional typologies of economic schools and why it must be understood as part of a political debate and within a political social and cultural context that demanded specific solutions to urgent social demands. Through the study of what was taught when and how at the beginnings of the republican era and why and how professional economists came to lead public debate and economic policy making in the 20th century this book explores the foundations of this permanent interaction between theory and practice. This book will be of significant interest to readers of history of economic thought economic history and the history of Colombian and Latin American economic political and social life more broadly. | A History of Colombian Economic Thought The Economic Ideas that Built Modern Colombia

GBP 130.00
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Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

Housing affordability urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed. Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban decarbonisation drawing upon more established yet quite distinctive fields of built environment policy and design housing and studies of social and economic change. Through this approach policy and practices of housing affordability equity energy efficiency resilience and renewables are critiqued and alternatives are presented. Drawing upon international case studies this book provides a unique contribution to interdisciplinary urban and housing studies discourses and practices in an era of climate change. This book is recommended reading on higher level undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in architecture urban studies planning built environment geography and urban studies. It will also be directly valuable to housing and urban policy makers and sustainability practitioners.

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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa Intertwined and Contested Histories

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa Intertwined and Contested Histories

Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts police prisons and schools that were crucial in establishing and maintaining political domination colonial architecture and urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the dynamic conditions in which colonial states officials architects planners medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the wider colonial project in Africa. | Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa Intertwined and Contested Histories

GBP 42.99
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