This book looks at the challenges facing architects and urban planners in contemporary society. It analyzes current trends, future scenarios and solutions from the past, providing detailed information on what it means to build in a sustainable, ecologically sound way, whilst making full use of the technology which we now have at our fingertips. Previously available as a hardcover but now out of print, it is being reprinted as a special softcover edition. Format Paperback | 240 pages Dimensions 227 x 298 x 18.03mm | 1,156.66g Publication date 01 Sep 2000 Publisher Birkhauser Verlag AG Publication City/Country Basel, Switzerland Language English Edition New edition Edition Statement New edition Illustrations note 40 colour, 150 duotone and 387 b&w illustrations ISBN10 3764363290 ISBN13 9783764363291
