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Egyptian Towns and Cities

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Egyptian Towns and Cities

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This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the Hellenistic period. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharaohs in establishing first towns and then cities. The later growths are shown to be of two basic types, royal foundations and those which underwent a natural expansion throughout history. From this they are classified as constituting various standard types based on function: provincial centres, planned workmen’s villages, military and frontier towns, towns inhabited by funerary priests and, ultimately, royal residences and the capitals. The range of size and material is tremendous, covering small closely knit communities of a few hundred people, towns with several thousand inhabitants and vast cities, as large as any in the ancient world, with tens of thousands of citizens.

Extreme Weather Hits Home: Protecting Your Buildings from Climate Change

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Extreme Weather Hits Home: Protecting Your Buildings from Climate Change

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We know how to prepare our homes for each seasonal change, but do we know how to prepare for climate change? Violent weather events like floods, tornadoes, ice storms, and hurricanes only tell part of the story. Climate change is frequently more subtle, but its effects on our homes and properties can still be devastating.

Mastering Revit Architecture 2009

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Mastering Revit Architecture 2009

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Move beyond the basics of Revit and BIM and redefine your designs with this new edition of Mastering Revit Architecture. With updated coverage of Revit Architecture 2009 features, this comprehensive guide will help you discover best practices and tips that will make your projects smoother and their implementation easier. You’ll learn how applying key Revit and BIM priniciples to your designs will increase your productivity and improve your workflow plus develop a more thorough understanding of topics like design options and features, advanced modeling, and presentation techniques with the clear explanations and practical examples found in this book.

Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future

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Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future

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Fully revised and updated, the new edition of the Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics takes into account the latest human factor considerations for the design and operation of modern control rooms. Containing many pictures that illustrate best practices, this resource provides designers with an accessible approach to the development of control and operations rooms in the process, manufacturing, and logistics industries. With more than 20 new chapters and sub-chapters, this second edition adds extensive theoretical background and explores new philosophies relating to organizational and job design. It also discusses use of the control room in education and simulation training.

Designing Better Buildings

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Designing Better Buildings

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples.
Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit. Jon Rouse