Donald Watson, Michele Adams

Gebundenes Buch

Design for Flooding

Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Flooding and Climate Change

Beschreibung

"Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking...and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places." -Landscape Architecture Magazine

Autor

DONALD WATSON, FAIA, an architect and planner, is former chair of the Yale School of Architecture Environmental Design Program, and former professor and dean of the School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the 2002 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award and the 2005 AARC Haecker Leadership Award for Architectural Research. His publications include Climatic Building Design, winner in the Architecture and Urban Planning category of the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. MICHELE ADAMS, P.E., a water resources engineer, is principal and founder of Meliora Environmental Design in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. Her work encompasses environ- mentally sensitive site design and sustainable water resources engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 224mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1114g
• ISBN-13: 9780470475645
• ISBN-10: 0470475641
• Artikelnr.: 30206951