Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steffen lehmann”
Skip side bar filters

  • Urban Regeneration

    A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change

    by Steffen Lehmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Designing for Zero Waste

    Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

    Edited by Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Growing Compact

    Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

    Edited by Joo Hwa P. Bay, Steffen Lehmann ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the city, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment

    Edited by Robert Crocker, Steffen Lehmann ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Informality through Sustainability

    Urban Informality Now

    Edited by Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann, Alessandro Melis ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability.Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sustainable Lina

    Lina Bo Bardi's Adaptive Reuse Projects

    Edited by Steffen Lehmann, Annette Condello ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Low Carbon Cities

    Transforming Urban Systems

    Edited by Steffen Lehmann ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Remaking Cities

    An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting

    by Tony Fry ...
    Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed.In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Climate Change and Social Ecology

    A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge

    by Stephen M. Wheeler ...
    Although strategies to prevent global warming – such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use – are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed. They have also been unwilling to confront underlying issues such as overconsumption, overpopulation, inequity, and dysfunctional political systems. Political ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    by Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Common Ground in a Liquid City

    Essays in Defense of an Urban Future

    by Matt Hern ...
    If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban life. Hern takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus