Sustainable Housing: Principles and Practice
β Scribed by Brian Edwards, David Turrent
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 182
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Sustainability and housing : the government view / Hilary Armstrong -- Sustainable housing : architecture, society and professionalism / Brain Edwards -- Housing and transport / David Lock -- Building and landscape / Andrew Grant -- Renewable energy in housing / Derek Taylor -- Water conservation and housing / David Howarth -- Sustainable housing : the Dutch experience / Chiel Boonstra -- Transforming the existing housing stock : a strategy for achieving minimum standards of thermal comfort / Peter F. Smith -- A design methodology for urban sustainability : three case studies / Andrew Wright -- Greenwich Millennium Village : a case study of sustainable housing / Ben Derbyshire -- Sustainable housing in Manchester : a case study of Hulme / George Mills -- A personal vision of sustainable housing / Edward Culliann -- Towards sustainable housing : principles and practice / David Turrent -- Design guidelines for sustainable housing / Brian Edwards
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