epub |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Robert Burley

This approach gained official sanction as part of the Toronto Parks Plan 201 3–2017, adopted by council in 2013. The plan included recommendations such as implementing a program to strengthen ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Sandra Albro

Figure 4-9a. A small vacant parcel sat on a street corner in a mixed-use neighborhood on Buffalo’s West Side. Figure 4-9b. The completed corner park adds pervious off-street parking, a ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Adam Brock [Brock, Adam]

Management experts Marcia Blenko, Paul Rogers, and Michael Mankins recommend seven as the optimal group size, claiming that each additional member beyond that reduces the effectiveness of the group’s decision ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lori Dennis

Great room by Lori Dennis, photo by Ken Hayden This open space accommodates a variety of activities allowing cooking, entertaining, and lounging to occur simultaneously. There’s enough room for people ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Philip Black

Figure 44 Serial vision route Figure 45 Serial vision sketches The SV provided for Piccadilly Basin (Fig.44) was chosen as it provided movement from the Ancoats development and entered the ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Grady Gammage Jr.

The two most pervasive postwar building forms in American architecture were the shopping center and the ranch house. Together, these building forms changed the nature of how cities grew and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert C. Brears

5.10 Adaptive Management To increase resilience to climate change, reduce environmental degradation and become a Blue-Green City, DEP has implemented an adaptive management decision-making framework that involves planning, designing, implementing ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Greg Winkler

Identify the Markets Urban areas contain a well-developed network of recycling facilities, which can be located through directories published by the municipality, Web sites run by local nonprofits, builder’s exchanges, ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:David Easton [Easton, David]

Field testing for durability. An easy method for evaluating the resistance of a proposed mix design to weathering is to subject a sample block to simulated wind-driven rain. The samples ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Julie Fryer

Construction and Maintenance Concerns Most gray water reclamation projects will require heavy-duty work, especially in plumbing, excavation, and groundwork. When done incorrectly, these projects can fail, and you could end ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Patrick M. Condon

Conclusion In the developed world we seem to have been drawn into spending too much on infrastructure, an infrastructure that seems to produce a dollar’s worth of environmental damage for ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-12 | Author:Erica Wisner

Insulation and Expansion Joints The heat riser MUST be insulated for the rocket mass heater to function. In order for the thermosiphon firebox to work, the inside of the heat ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:Jon Nunan

Michael Blaha, owner-builder www.ilovecob.com When did you begin your project? May 31, 2007. [This particular house] is a low-cost alternative and natural building hybrid. It is off the grid, meaning ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-29 | Author:Sheri Koones, Robert Redford

epub |eng | 2019-03-09 | Author:Charles R. Wolfe

Figure 3–3: Barcelona: Plaça de Catalunya “occupied.” Figure 3–4: Barcelona: the Ramblas style. Figure 3–5: Rome: the quintessential urban space, Campo de’ Fiori. My own, filmed walks through Campo de’ ...