New Books - Current
Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection
By: Alejandro Bahamon, Patricia Perez, Alex Campello
From the publisher: Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure.
Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies
Edited by: Goktug Morcol et al.
From the publisher: Business improvement districts (BIDs) are self-assessment districts initiated and self-governed by property or business owners. Their importance regarding metropolitan service delivery and governance has increased considerably in the last few decades. This book presents empirical research and theoretical discussion on BIDs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Control of Pests and Weeds by Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control
By: Roy Van Driesche, Mark Hoddle, and Ted Center
From the publisher: Written by leading international experts in the field, this text offers an integrated look at biological control of invasive species and the role of natural enemies in pest management.
Dirk Jan Postel: Transparencies
By: Philip Jodidio et al.
From the publisher: The first monograph on this Dutch architect.
NA1153 .P67 A4 2008 (Oversize).
Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America
Edited by: Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt
From the publisher: As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medellin Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Working with new empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society.
Landscape Design
By: Ryoko Ueyama
From the publisher: Depicts seven of the most representative works of Ryoko Ueyama, Japan's pioneering landscape designer. Text in English and Japanese.
Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal
By: Gabrielle Esperdy
From the publisher: An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. In Modernizing Main Street, Gabrielle Esperdy uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop owners who wanted to update their facades.
A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
By: William Nordhaus
From the publisher: As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries.
The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
By: Dexter Cirillo
From the publisher: The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies—and all support a healthy living environment.
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
By: Elizabeth Royte
From the publisher: In this intelligent, eye-opening work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Eric Schlosser did for fast food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from nature to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? What happens when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town's source? Should we have to pay for water? Is the stuff coming from the tap completely safe? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What's the environmental footprint of making, transporting, and disposing of all those plastic bottles?
Foundations of Environmental Sustainability: The Coevolution of Science and Policy
Edited by: Larry L. Rockwood, Ronald E. Stewart, & Thomas Dietz
From the publisher: This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change.
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
By: Robert Pogue Harrison
From the publisher: With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history.
Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living From the Experts at Treehugger.com
By: Graham Hill and Meaghan O'Neill
From the publisher: Written by the visionarires at Treehugger, the most heavily trafficked site of its kind, Ready, Set, Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home, office, car, and vacation more eco-friendly.
Rewealth! Stake your Claim in the $2 Trillion Redevelopment Trend that’s Renewing the World
By: Storm Cunningham
From the publisher: The 20th century's problems have become the 21st century's restorable assets, giving birth to a new economy that is generating staggering wealth. In ReWealth!, development expert Storm Cunningham reveals a vast new realm of fast-growing opportunities to revitalize organizations, restore natural resources, develop polluted land, and rebuild communities.
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda
By: Nicholas A. Ashford & Charles C. Caldart
From the publisher: The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars.
Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore
Edited by: Tai-Chee Wong, Belinda Yuen, and Charles Goldblum
From the publisher: The book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore's planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It contributes and produces an impact on urban planning literature in a renewed perspective about Singapore that reflects the reality and need to address sustainability in the triangular relationship of economic, environmental and social developments.
