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Tropical Sustainable Architecture

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ISBN-10: 0750667974

ISBN-13: 9780750667975

Edition: 2006

Authors: Boon Lay Ong, Joo Hwa Bay

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The authors and contributors to this volume raise relevant questions and offer significant and promising answers of how best to build in the tropical climates. This publication frames the terms for a continuing productive investigation of these ideas.
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Book details

List price: $88.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 7.48" wide x 14.09" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
Social and Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Introductory Comments
Architectural and Environmental Theories
Rethinking Design Methodology for Sustainable Social Quality
The Selective Environment: Environmental Design and Cultural Identity
Green Design in the Hot Humid Tropical Zone
High-rise High-density Living
Socio-Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Semi-open Spaces of High-rise Housing in Singapore
BEAMs and Architectural Design in Singapore Public Housing
Building and Planning Requirements
Policy and Evaluation System for Green Building in Subtropical Taiwan
In Search of a Habitable Urban Space-Built Ratio: A Case Study of Building and Planning Regulation in Dhaka City
Urban Environmental Impacts
Designing High Density Cities - Parametric Studies of Urban Morphologies and their Implied Environmental Performance
The Urban Heat Island Effect in Singapore
Tropical Urban Street Canyons
Experimental Sustainable Projects
Tropical and Traditional: Inventing a New Housing Model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam
ECOPET 21: An Innovative Sustainable Building System for Ecological Communities in Tropical Regions
Critique on Tropical Architecture
Is Sustainability Sustainable? Interrogating the Tropical Paradigm in Asian Architecture
Index