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Sustainable Lessons from People-Friendly Places

Avi Friedman

This book introduces fundamental principles of timely sustainable urban design, paying attention to architecture, integration of natural features, public urban spaces, and their successful use. Readers will learn new how…

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Sustainable Lessons from People-Friendly Places

Avi Friedman

This book introduces fundamental principles of timely sustainable urban design, paying attention to architecture, integration of natural features, public urban spaces, and their successful use. Readers will learn new how…

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Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living

Avi Friedman, Alexandra Pollock

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

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Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

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Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Renewal in Small and Mid-Sized Towns

Avi Friedman

The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers.

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings

Avi Friedman

Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. This book begins with a concise overview of green building principles, covering topics such…

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design

Avi Friedman

This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of…

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Neighbourhoods

Avi Friedman

This timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world.

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Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints

Avi Friedman

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet.

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Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods

Avi Friedman

This book covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles for innovative and sustainable neighbourhood design. It is useful to students and practitioners of urban design, planning, and…

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Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods

Avi Friedman

This book covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles for innovative and sustainable neighbourhood design. It is useful to students and practitioners of urban design, planning, and…

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Sustainable Residential Development

Avi Friedman

Sustainable Residential Development presents a much-needed process for planning and designing green communities, written by one of North America’s foremost and most in-demand experts in sustainability.

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Pre-Fab Living

Avi Friedman

From cabins to containers, this international overview showcases a new generation of innovative homes that save space, are kinder to the planet and cost less to build.

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Inspired Homes: Architecture for Changing Times

Avi Friedman

Written by a world expert in the field, Innovative Homes offers information on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding designs

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Innovative Student Residences: New Directions in Sustainable Design

Avi Friedman

An insight into university accommodation, featuring projects in the USA and Europe, including lavish photography.

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Multifamily Housing: Creating a Community

Provides a fresh perspective and contemporary analysis of the innovation and designs on-trend in the field of multifamily housing, featuring photography, plans and detailed illustrations. A source of information for…

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Smart Homes and Communities

Avi Friedman

Exploration of the strategies employed by innovative architects and designers, that make both the residential environment smart. Includes critical and informative essays, with detailed diagrams, photographs and explanatory commentaries.

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Radical Living: Homes at the edge of architecture

Radical Living: Homes at the edge of architecture is filled with striking and quirky residential designs, the results of architects who inspire with ingenuity, by thinking outside the square and…

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design

Avi Friedman

This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of…

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Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns: Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability

Avi Friedman (McGill University, Canada)

Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns offers ideas and methods on how small isolated and edge towns can be designed and retooled into sustainable, affordable and adaptable communities.

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Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns: Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability

Avi Friedman (McGill University, Canada)

Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns offers ideas and methods on how small isolated and edge towns can be designed and retooled into sustainable, affordable and adaptable communities.

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Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living

Avi Friedman,Alexandra Pollock

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

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Canadian Contemporary: The Northern Home

Showcases contemporary residential architecture and design across Canada by renowned Canadian-based architects and designers.

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Future Homes: Sustainable Innovative Designs

Avi Friedman

New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. Future Homes provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions.

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Designing Sustainable Communities

Professor Avi Friedman (Professor of Architecture, McGill University, Canada)

Innovation in planning is essential to dealing with the challenges society currently faces, from urban sprawl to climate change. In this book, Avi Friedman looks at both new and revived…

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Town and Terraced Housing: For Affordability and Sustainability

Keiichiro Komatsu (Komatsu Research & Advisory, UK)

Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies…

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Town and Terraced Housing: For Affordability and Sustainability

Keiichiro Komatsu (Komatsu Research & Advisory, UK)

Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies…

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Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: The Ceremony, the Party, and How the Day Came to Be

Bertram Metter

In some places, bar and bat mitzvahs are rivaled only by proms as the most important social event in many teens’ lives. Parties celebrating the occasion can range from humble…

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Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning

Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material, tutorials for different proposed approaches, and applications.

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