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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.

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Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

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

Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

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

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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.

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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

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Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

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

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

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

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

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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

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Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

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

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

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Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

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

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Wellbeing in Interiors Philosophy Design and Value in Practice

Houseways in Southern Oman

Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

Based on a transnational study of decommissioned postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi) South Korea (Seoul) and China (Lushun) this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to the evolving conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century it illuminates how punishment has been considered a subject of modernization while the contemporary use of prisons as heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to oppression and atrocity – thus constituting a heritage of shame and death which postcolonial societies blame upon the former colonizers. A study of how the remembering of punishment and imprisonment reflects the attempts of postcolonial cities to re-articulate an understanding of the present by correcting the past Heritage Memory and Punishment examines how prisons were designed built partially demolished preserved and redeveloped across political regimes demonstrating the ways in which the selective use of prisons as heritage reframed through nationalism leaves marks on urban contexts that remain long after the prisons themselves are decommissioned. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology geography the built environment and heritage with interests in memory studies and dark tourism. | Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

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Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure Open Building in Practice

Youth Citizenship and Social Change in a European Context