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Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency

Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and James Benedict Brown. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032277486

Constructing Building Integrity: Raising Standards through Professionalism

Edited by Katja Cooper, Hugh Breakey, Charles Stamford, Peter Gow & Keith Hampson. Routledge, 2026, ISBN: 9781041043720

Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

Edited by Anitra Nelson. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032650159

Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces

By Kay Sargent. John Wiley & Sons, 2025, ISBN: 1394309337

Teaching Carbon Neutral Design in North America

Edited by Robin Puttock. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032692517

Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable and Resilient World

By Adele Houghton and Carlos Castillo-Salgado. John Hopkins University Press, 2025, ISBN: 9781421450698

Carbon Neutral Architectural Design

By Pablo M. La Roche. CRC Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781003014829

Architecture and Spatial Culture

By John Peponis. Routledge, 2024, ISBN: 978‑1‑032‑50042‑3

Healthy Urbanism. Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places

By Helen Pineo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, ISBN: 978-981-16-9646-6

How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy

Edited by: Tim Vorley, Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Phil Wallace. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN: 978 1 80037 895 7

The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and the Environment

By Dean Hawkes. Routledge, 2022, ISBN: 9780367537166

Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

By Andrew Witt. MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-262-54300-2

Experiential Design Schemas

By Mark DeKay and Gail Brager. Oro Editions, 2023, ISBN: 9781957183732

Climate Urbanism: Towards a Critical Research Agenda

Edited by: Vanesa Castán Broto, Enora Robin, Aidan While. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-53386-1

Building Better - Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy

By Felix Heisel and Dirk E Hebel, in collaboration with Ken Webster. Birkhäuser, 2022, ISBN: 9783035621099

Energy Use in Cities: A Roadmap for Urban Transitions

By S. Pincetl, H. Gustafson, F. Federico, E.D. Fournier, R. Cudd & E. Porse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN: 9783030556013

Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice

By Kian Goh. MIT Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780262367066

Energy Modelling in Architecture: A Practice Guide

By Sonja Oliviera, Bill Gething, Elena Marco. RIBA Publishing, 2020, ISBN 9781859469101

The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems

By Frank W. Geels and Bruno Turnheim. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781009198240

Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry: Cracks, Cladding and Crisis in the Residential Construction Sector

By D. Oswald and T. Moore. Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9781032007311

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Latest Commentaries

Climate protest outside a local library. Many protests forced councils to declare Climate Emergencies. But have the councils delivered on this promise? Photo: (c) Joe Baker (2019)

How can local authorities better anticipate and reduce chronic climate risks in the built environment? With 20 years' experience working in local authorities tackling climate change, Joe Baker considers the challenges facing local authorities to identify and manage climate risks, and asks: How do we get the leadership, skills, capacity and meaningful action needed?

Sao Paolo, Brazil. Image: Google Earth. Map data: Google Landsat / Copernicus Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. Imagery from the dates: 14/12/2015 – 01/01/2021.

At the 2026 Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit Magnus Andersson, David Muthui & Reza Roodaki (Malmö University) argued that remote sensing should be a core evidence infrastructure for sustainable urban governance. Satellite derived and geospatial analysis can observe and monitor urban expansion, densification, land consumption, building form and material demand across jurisdictions and over time. A shift from two-dimensional to three-dimensional sensing and analysis provides new data to inform policies for housing, land-use efficiency, disaster exposure, public space, resource efficiency and resilient construction.

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