Construction and real estate have been central to the debates on sustainable development.
However, the dominant definition of sustainability in construction and real estate remain …

The Honest Weight Food Coop in Albany, New York, serves both middle-class shoppers
who drive in from miles around and the ethnically and economically mixed residents of the …

Informed by the belief that higher education and research (HER) plays an important role in
knowledge‐based innovation, the last decade in particular has seen a flurry of building …

The wine sector worldwide consumes a considerable amount of energy, with much of it used
for cooling and ventilating cellars (ageing rooms). For this reason, the design of energy …

There are creative, affordable ways to address community development and also achieve
goals of environmental sustainability. Approximately thirty case studies, based on interviews …

How has the contemporary development of sustainable buildings been influenced by the
concept of ecological modernization? Ecological modernization is a policy concept …

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural"
technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define" sustainability," and thus …

How is environmental design influencing the way in which cultural public places (museums,
libraries, parks, campuses) are imagined, designed and symbolized in Canadian …

Increasingly, government urban growth strategies support streamlined planning and
development processes that soften conditions for private sector developers in the …

Building codes are both an index of social values and a strategy to enforce those values. On
these grounds an examination is made of the emergence of green building codes in North …