Urban Acoustic Environment
Acoustic environment is an important aspect of the overall urban environment, and in the last decade or so, major new developments have come to light in the field in terms of research and practice. Urban acoustic environment covers a wide range of issues,
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Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments
Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments
Runming Yao Editor
Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments
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Editor Runming Yao Reading UK
ISBN 978-1-4471-4780-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4781-7
ISBN 978-1-4471-4781-7
(eBook)
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Foreword
Today sustainability is a word that pervades architecture and building engineering whether planning, designing, or managing a building or city. In this book there is a bias toward buildings but six of the twenty chapters deal with the urban context. There is a vital need to bring planning, design, and management closer together and this book goes some way toward achieving this. The approach has been to compile a mixture of chapters which cross and interface disciplines devoted to strategic and tactical issues that are needed to fulfill the principal objective of being sustainable at all stages of the planning, design, and manageme
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