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"The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook" by Nico Larco and Kaarin Knudson is a comprehensive resource that gathers research on sustainability in urban design into a framework and a set of design patterns. The handbook is aimed at multiple parties engaged in urban design, including designers, planners, elected officials, real estate professionals, advocates, and ordinary citizens. The framework presented in the handbook is well-grounded in the literature and provides a means to highlight trade-offs and synergies between design decisions. The bulk of the book consists of design patterns that fill the cells in the framework, providing clear and actionable guidelines for urban design. The handbook is generously and well-illustrated, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in sustainable urban design. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management" edited by Alessandro Melis, Julia Brown, and Claire Coulter explores the concept of the urban nexus, which connects urban infrastructure systems related to food, water, and energy. The book presents contributions from the CRUNCH project, which aims to identify and utilize the potential of these resources. It discusses the use of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) to test climate resilience strategies and the importance of integrating ULLs into local government structures. The book also addresses the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the development of an Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS) for urban living laboratories. Overall, the book provides valuable insights for policymakers interested in the resilience of cities and the linkages between food, water, and energy. [Extracted from the article]

Mall offers a plan for implementing digital design systems that will suit all users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph In Stuart Walker's latest book, "Design and Spirituality", he presents a way to move forward through design in an eloquent and pragmatic way. Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures by Stuart Walker: by Stuart Walker New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, 314pp., Paperback ISBN 9780367619978. In the first type of chapter of the book, Stuart critiques and dissects the current dominant worldview. [Extracted from the article]

China's architectural aid to less-developed countries in the past six decades, as pointed out by the authors, exhibits the intriguing cultural flow from China to those countries via architecture design. On the contrary, the authors show that the individual work, thoughts and contributions of design institute actors can be traced throughout the history of design institutes in pre-reform China. However, if there were more details on how the design institutes developed and dominated the mass-housing design market, which was partially shaped by China's booming real estate market, their efficiency-driven working model of the 2000s would have been clearer to readers. [Extracted from the article]

In neoclassical economics, design is instrumental for generating desirable products or services for the sake of growth and consumerism in an industrial society (Grant and Fox [2]). Ceschin and Gaziulusoy have been studying the evolution of sustainable design as a discipline for over a decade and rounded up key innovative approaches within DfS in one gathering reference. Ceschin and Gaziulusoy define and visualize the discipline as a multi-level framework distinguished with three key elements: innovation levels, "scope of the design intervention" and "framing the design problem" axis. [Extracted from the article]

Part I, which includes two chapters, further elaborates the conceptualisation of English-Medium Education in Multilingual University Settings (EMEMUS), presented in the introduction, through a close examination of its realities and an updated discussion of the ROAD-MAPPING approach. After a brief introduction, the chapter showcases the application of ROAD-MAPPING to investigate two research focal points: EMEMUS stakeholders' beliefs and classroom discourse. Dafouz and Smit highlight four main strengths of ROAD-MAPPING: It allows comprehensive analyses as well as specific enquiries of wide range of EMEMUS realities. [Extracted from the article]

Mall offers a plan for implementing digital design systems that will suit all users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

She presents current thinking in the form of the upward hierarchy of Design for Service, Design for Social Innovation, and Transition Design, adding Design Activism as a more overtly politicized mode of socially responsive design practice. For Boehnert, design activism is 'design work that is explicitly linked to the activism of social movements and/or work with marginalized communities from a perspective of solidarity, allyship and intersectionality' (26). The title of Chapter 3 (Design Versus the Design Industry) captures the adversarial relationship between a prospective changemaker and the present political economy of design defined by market priorities. [Extracted from the article]

56 MONITOR Books Books REVIEWS UN75: sustainable engineering in action by the Institution of Civil Engineers, published by St James, 2020, £49.95, reviewed by Paula McMahon, Sir Robert McAlpine, UK This well-presented and easy-to-read book is a wonderful and informative collection of stories from around the world. Overall, this book provides an excellent handbook for anyone who seeks to build their understanding of wind turbine design, both engineers and non-engineers alike. Civil engineering procedure (8th ed.) by the Institution of Civil Engineers, published by ICE Publishing, 2020, £30, reviewed by Sarah Melville-Crowe, Royal Air Force- Ministry of Defence, UK First published in 1963 this book has been through several updates since that time, culminating with this 8th Monitor: Books ICE Publishing: All rights reserved Civil Engineering Volume 174 Issue 2 May 2021 https://doi.org/10.1680/jcien.2021.174.2.56 57 Civil Engineering Volume 174 Issue 2 May 2021 Monitor: Books MONITOR Books edition. [Extracted from the article]

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (World Health Organisation [5]). Moreover, the editor's postponement of defining design (as used in the book's title) until the last chapter perhaps facilitates a disorientation of how the chapters do connect to design. It is contingent upon the reader to deduce that design equates to design processes as summarised in Table 12.1, Design processes and the user interface discussed within chapters, (p. 226). [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 4 ("Energy Modeling: Evaluating ZNE before the Utility Bills Arrive") focuses on energy modeling software and methods of establishing a building energy use baseline. Last, I Design Professional's Guide i provides an appendix of eight domestic ZNEB case studies that offer clear insight into the complexity of the design process required to achieve a ZNEB project. Last, ZNEBs are practically defined in chapter 6 - the author could have strategically placed this chapter at the beginning of the book as it sets out the parameters and scope of ZNEB. [Extracted from the article]

These basic but important mining principles are presented throughout the textbook, and are extremely useful for student or teachers learning about mining activities outside their area of expertise. There is a nine-page section devoted to classical resource estimation methods that are no longer recommended by practitioners or the national mineral resource and reserve committees (polygonal, triangle, block, contour). There is a lack of emphasis on dilution and ore loss as a trade-off and as a function of selected mining method and excavating equipment. [Extracted from the article]

The editors teach postgraduate and undergraduate courses on climate change adaptation in regional planning and landscape architecture disciplines at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the American University of Beirut. The final paper identifies urban planning and landscape design methods that publicly visualise local climate change effects so citizens can also appreciate how this global issue relates directly to the local urban form. This edited book explains the necessity for urban planners to have a role in addressing climate change and clarifies how the urban form is affected by global climate change. [Extracted from the article]

Williamson argues that most of Repton's commissions were for reasonably flat terrain, hence it was difficult to create something picturesque: if Repton had had more commissions for upland regions, he might well have been seen as a picturesque landscape gardener. Williamson concludes that Repton had 'a collection of rules and a coherent method which could be applied in all circumstances ... Repton, for all his ability as an artist, was an intensely cerebral man. Given that Repton was a designer, not an implementer, Williamson is critical of scholars who read too much into the extent to which Repton's designs were implemented. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives," edited by Mark DeKay.

The article reviews the book "Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives," by Mark Dekay.

The article reviews the book "The Bauhaus Group," by Nicholas Fox Weber.

A description of various courses related to sustainable design is provided, including "MSc and MArch Sustainable Environmental Design" at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England, "MSc Environmental Design and Engineering" at The Bartlett, University College London in London, England, "MSc Architectural Engineering (Environmental Design)" at the University of Bath in Bath, England are presented.

A description of the course the "Interplay of Cultures" studio, part of the curriculum at Aalto University's Department of Architecture since 1993 which focuses on community empowerment through participation, sustainable design solutions and culturally knowledgeable architecture.

The article reviews the book "Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area," by Urban Ecology.

The article reviews the book "Bioclimatic Housing: Innovative Designs for Warm Climates" edited by Richard Hyde.

The article reviews the book "Toward More Sustainable Infrastructure: Project Evaluation for Planners and Engineers," by Carl Martland.

The article reviews the book "The Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability," by Stephen A. Mouzon.