Housing Policy In The United States: An Introduction

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Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in the field, introduces key concepts and institutions, and examines the most important programs. Written as an introductory text, it explains all concepts, trends, and programs without jargon, and includes empirical dat... More >>

Housing Policy In The United States: An Introduction

Mary Cassatt

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Briefly examines the life and work of the American Impressionist painter, describing and giving examples of her art.... More >>

Mary Cassatt

Architectural Diagrams

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Diagram is one of the most used words in contemporary architecture and urban design. It's almost a common understanding of using diagrams to explain the design concept.... More >>

Architectural Diagrams

True Life: Steven Harris Architects

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"Effortless" and "inevitable" are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Steven Harris Architects designs spaces that are custom-tailored to their clients' daily lives and experiences. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the ... More >>

True Life: Steven Harris Architects

Building with Stone

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An introduction to the art and craft of creating stone structures with step-by-step project instructions.... More >>

Building with Stone

Building Structures, 2nd Edition

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Illustrates concepts, relationships and basic processes of architectural design. Emphasizes concerns of professional designers who must cope with practical problems of how to make plans for sensible buildings and determine construction details for a specific type of edifice. This edition updates all standard reference codes, industry regulations, design procedures and current products. Features demonstration examples of the development of structural systems for two ... More >>

Building Structures, 2nd Edition

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 10th Edition

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Continuing its proud heritage, this Tenth Edition provides thorough coverage of the latest in the theory and practice of environmental control system design. This bestselling book encompasses mechanical and electrical systems for buildings of all sizes, featuring design guidelines and detailed design procedures for every topic covered and supported by more than 2,200 illustrations—over 225 new to this edition!... More >>

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 10th Edition

Cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private Hideaway

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Wouldn't life be a whole lot better if somewhere out in the wild woody yonder sat a snug little cabin with your name on the mailbox? You know it would. If you have a cabin dream, this book is your ticket to making it real. With Cabinology as your map and architect and cabinologist Dale Mulfinger as your guide, you'll know the best way to approach every decision, from choosing a site for a new cabin, to remodeling an old one, to getting exactly the right fireplace fo... More >>

Cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private Hideaway

Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition

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Architecture/Environment
How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources
Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also:
* Applies the latest passive energy and lighting design research
* Organizes information by architectural elements at... More >>

Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition

Modern Country

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Modern Country by Nancy Ingram blends the quiet, simple elegance of classic country with a clean, modernist edge to create an entirely new interior genre. When classic country is infused with modern interior design, it becomes bolder. It offers a contemporary attitude, a confident feel that mixes periods, patterns, and pedigrees but embraces the element of restraint. As noted photo stylist and author Nancy Ingram says, "Mix it up and pare it down!" Mod... More >>

Modern Country

Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

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Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s m... More >>

Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

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The incredible story of Walter Russell who succeeded in music -literature- architecture -painting -sculpture -science -philosophy- human relations - yet never went beyond primary school grades-how he did it!... More >>

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

Chicago Then and Now

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Since it first grew up along the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago blossomed into a vibrant, progressive city with a landscape unlike any other. See how much the Midwest’s cultural center has changed — and how much it’s stayed the same — in Chicago Then & Now. Unstoppably prosperous in the mid-1800’s, Chicago was laid to waste by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The remarkable period following the fire gave rise to some of the world’s greatest architects and... More >>

Chicago Then and Now

International Fuel Gas Code 2006

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SOFTCOVER VERSION: Addresses the design and installation of fuel gas systems and gas-fired appliances through requirements that emphasize performance.... More >>

International Fuel Gas Code 2006

The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough

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For everyone who craves a simpler lifestyle, not only in how they live but also where they live, The Simple Home features 21 houses and presents six different approaches to creating a home that realizes its full potential both simply and elegantly.
We are living in complex times, in a commodified, virtual, and overstimulated culture. One response to high levels of complexity and overstimulation is to look for yet another gadget or closet organizer to simplify ou... More >>

The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough

Birdfeeders, Shelters and Baths

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Attract more birds and more different kinds of birds to your backyard kingdom by giving them places to nest, feed, and bathe.  Each of the more than 25 unique projects in this weekend workshop book is easy to build and comes with complete step-by-step illustrated, instructions. ... More >>

Birdfeeders, Shelters and Baths

Natural Swimming Pools: Inspiration For Harmony With Nature

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Natural swimming pools rely on the correct balance of living plants and micro-organisms to clean and purify the water. They are easy and less costly to maintain than chemical pools. Chlorine and other common pool chemicals that are hazardous to human health are not used. Natural pools are safe places for children to play and birds to drink, and are a dramatic example of ecological design, combining the natural and man-made worlds while creating beauty. These pools o... More >>

Natural Swimming Pools: Inspiration For Harmony With Nature

Design with Nature

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"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis Mumford

". . . important to America and all the rest of the world in our struggle to design rational, wholesome, and productive landscapes." --Laurie Olin, Hanna Olin, Ltd.

"This century's most influential landscape architecture book." --Landscape Architecture
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Design with Nature

Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice

• ISBN13: 9780262014618
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I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me upon the world.
—from Down Detour Road
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Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice

Japan Houses: Ideas for 21st Century Living

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Japanese residential design has evolved as a distinctive response to social, political, and climatic pressures—along with the powerful individual ideas of its architects. Japan Houses presents 26 of the country's finest contemporary houses in breathtaking photographs and with insightful text.... More >>

Japan Houses: Ideas for 21st Century Living

London: A Life in Maps

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A city long shrouded in literary and historical mists--not to mention real ones--London seduces tourists and natives alike. From Big Ben to the grimy Victorian streets of Dickens novels on up to the sleek high-rises that dot the skyline of the twenty-first-century metropolis, the urban landscape of London is steeped in history, while forever responsive to the changing dictates of progress, industry, and culture. In London: A Life in Maps, acclaimed historian Peter W... More >>

London: A Life in Maps

The Dock Manual: Designing/Building/Maintaining

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The Dock Manual is the only book devoted entirely to planning, constructing, and maintaining residential docks on rivers, lakes, and oceans.... More >>

The Dock Manual: Designing/Building/Maintaining