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BL
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1048284
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b802654
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| Title & Author
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Tropical sustainable architecture : : social and environmental dimensions /\ Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Architectural,, 2006.
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xviii, 292 pages :: color illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0750667974
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: 9780750667975
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Selected conference papers.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Social and environmental dimensions in tropical sustainable architecture : introductory comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon-Lay Ong -- Rethinking design methodology for sustainable social quality / Alexander Tzonis -- The selective environment : environmental design and cultural identity / Dean Hawkes -- Green design in the hot humid tropical zone / Ken Yeang -- Socio-environmental dimensions in tropical semi-open spaces of high-rise housing in Singapore / Joo-Hwa Bay [and others] -- BEAMs and architectural design in Singapore public housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- Policy and evaluation system for green building in subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- In search of a habitable urban space-built ratio : a case study of building and planning regulation in Dhaka City / Q.M. Mahtab-uz-Zaman [and others] -- Designing high density cities : parametric studies of urban morphologies and their implied environmental performance / Edward Ng [and others] -- The urban heat island effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- Tropical urban street canyons / Elais Salleh -- Tropical and traditional : inventing a new housing model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- ECOPET 21 : an innovative sustainable building system for ecological communities in tropical regions / José Roberto Garciá Chávez -- Is sustainability sustainable? Interrogating the tropical paradigm in Asian architecture / Anoma Pieris.
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| Abstract
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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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Architecture and society-- Tropics, Congresses.
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Architecture-- Environmental aspects-- Tropics, Congresses.
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Architecture, Tropical, Congresses.
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Sustainable architecture, Congresses.
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Architecture durable, Congrès.
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Architecture tropicale, Congrès.
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Architecture-- Aspect de l'environnement-- Régions tropicales, Congrès.
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Architecture-- Aspect social-- Régions tropicales, Congrès.
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Architecture and society.
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Architecture-- Environmental aspects-- Tropics, Congresses.
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Architecture-- Environmental aspects.
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Architecture-- Social aspects-- Tropics, Congresses.
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Architecture, Tropical, Congresses.
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Architecture, Tropical.
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Klimagerechtes Bauen
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Landschaftsgebundenes Bauen
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Sustainable architecture, Congresses.
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Sustainable architecture.
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Tropen
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Tropics.
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| Dewey Classification
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720.913
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| LC Classification
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NA2542.T7B39 2006
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| Added Entry
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Bay, Joo-Hwa.
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Ong, Boon Lay.
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