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Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated noisy polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable welcoming and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for people of all ages and for the planet. It shows how urban designers and city planners can incorporate child friendly insights and ideas into their masterplans public spaces and streetscapes. Healthier children mean happier families stronger communities greener neighbourhoods and an economy focused on the long-term. Make cities better for everyone. | Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

GBP 38.00
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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

This book is a call to arms to all architects designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process. This requires far-reaching change in established industry processes. How might this begin? What are the key fundamentals you need to know? How can a more effective model be applied? This book a much-updated second edition of the author’s previous work Building Revolutions answers all your questions. Inspiring but never overwhelming the Handbook to Building a Circular Economy is your must-have companion to helping create a more sustainable future. It explains in simple and practical terms how the principles of a circular economy can be applied to the built environment thereby reducing the resources required to construct fit-out maintain and refurbish buildings. Case studies include: The Forge UK by Landsec The Bath School of Art UK by Grimshaw Urban Mining and Recycling Experimental Unit Switzerland by Werner Sobek NASA Sustainability Base USA by William McDonough + Partners University of East Anglia Enterprise Centre UK by Architype Park 20|20 The Netherlands by William McDonough + Partners.

GBP 34.00
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