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Transformational Climate Actions by Cities
Urban Expansion
Modern Methods of Construction: Beyond Productivity Improvement
Energy, Emerging Technologies and Gender in Homes
Mainstreaming Personal Comfort Systems
Housing Adaptability
Alternatives to Air Conditioning: Policies, Design, Technologies, Behaviours
Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health
Retrofitting at Scale: Accelerating Capabilities for Domestic Building Stocks
Urban Densification
Education and Training: Mainstreaming Zero Carbon
Climate Justice: The Role of the Built Environment
Carbon Metrics for Buildings and Cities: Assessing and Controlling GHGs across Scales
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Creating a Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries
How Does Architectural Form Influence Economic Diversity?
Retrofit at Scale - Videos
COP26 Expectations
Making Mass Retrofit a Reality
Urban Climate Resilience: Tackling Microclimates and Dwelling Overheating
Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure
Impacts of Energy Policy on Urban GHG Emissions
What Have We Learnt from 20 Years of Occupant Surveys?
Is Urban Density a Key Factor in the Spread of Covid-19?
Mainstreaming Zero Carbon - Videos
Improving Energy Research Practices
VIRTUAL EVENTS: Can Built Environment Education Deliver?
Carbon Metrics - videos
Climate Justice - video
Climate Justice – online webinar
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Transforming US Architectural Education and Professional Practice
Construction Skills for Mainstreaming nZEB: New Tools & Practices
Graz Declaration for Climate Protection in the Built Environment: A Call for Carbon Neutrality
Following Hal
Ray Cole Awarded the Order of Canada
Welcome to Buildings and Cities
Commentaries
Publishing Books: Some Advice and Warnings
Christopher Alexander and 'Notes on the Synthesis of Form'
Christopher Alexander's Pursuit of Living Structure in Cities
Embodied Carbon: Breaking Construction Dependencies
Building without concrete?
Rethinking IEQ Standards for a Warming Post-COVID World
Transitioning to Zero-Carbon Buildings
Structural Engineering and Carbon Footprints of CLT Buildings
Housing Adaptability: Some Past Lessons
COP26 & Beyond: What Role for Cities?
Why Building Regulations Must Incorporate Embodied Carbon
COP-26: A Commitment to Regulate Embodied Carbon
COP-26: Engaging Built Environment Professionals to Support Climate Justice
COP-26: Make Nature-Based Solutions a Top Adaptation Priority
Cities as Climate Saviours? Political Strategy Ahead of COP-26
Healing Cities: Toward Urban Climate Justice & Slum Health
Why Digital Building Passports Are Vital for Change
Adapt or Retreat? Developing a Long-Term Regional Planning Strategy
Climate Adaptation in Cities: Planning for Heat Vulnerability
Adapting our Cities and Urban Planning to Climate Change: Microclimates
Reconcile Healthy Indoor Environments and Climate Mitigation
Fast-Growing Bio-Based Materials Can Heal the World
Climate Justice and English Dwellings
India’s Role in Sub-Saharan Africa: COP-26 Expectations
COP26: Sufficiency Should be First
What China's Carbon Neutrality Means for its Building Stock
Why High-Resolution Climate Modelling Matters: Cities and Health
New Approaches to Building Regulations Needed
Next Steps for COP-26: Capability for Resilient Cities and Regions
COP-26: Stopping Climate Change and Other Illusions
Unlock Carbon Dependency: Integrate Low-Carbon Development and Territorial Justice
Can COP-26 Accelerate Cities’ Climate Actions?
Trust and Empower the World’s Schoolchildren
Responsibilities to the 'Climate Generation'
Transition to a Cross-sectoral Approach for Decarbonising the Built Environment
At COP-26, Climate Change Should Not Go Solo
Avoid Unintended Consequences: Provide Justice and Agency
The Elephant in the Climate Change Room
Sustainable and Climate Resilient Cities? Stop Experimenting, Start Scaling
Managing the Long Term and Complexity: Policies for Mitigation
A New Radical Bauhaus?
The value of interdisciplinarity: a critical reflection on urban sustainability research
Heat Pump Market Transformation: Strategies & Lessons
A History of Failed Dreams: Modern Methods of Construction and Katerra
The Global Cooling Prize
A Dual Mandate for Climate Justice and Climate Protection
Zero Carbon Buildings: A Brazilian Perspective
Critical Reflections on The Construction Playbook
The Sustainability Implications of Single Occupancy Households
Leadership is Critical in Mainstreaming Sustainability in Professional Education
Carbon Metrics Can Help the Real Estate Sector
Urban Demographic Trends: Impacts on Cities, Planning and Real Estate
Can We Educate Architects to Design the Future?
Mainstreaming Carbon Zero in Architectural Education: Within a Decade?
Academia’s Critical Role in Climate Change
A Wicked Higher Education Problem: Climate Emergency Requires Brave Leadership
Climate Change and Architectural Education
Accelerating Change in Architectural Education
Energy Data, Public Participation and the Green Transition
Retrofitting Buildings to Support the Recovery
Is High Density Necessary for Future Urban Life?
Reflections on Buildings, Cities and COVID-19
Housing: Lessons for a Post-COVID-19 World
Hackitt and the Golden Thread: Challenges to Implementation
Will Working from Home Become the New Normal?
After COVID-19: Opportunity for Changing Building Regulations?
Pandemics: Why Buildings are Hazards
Design Professionals Challenging Disasters
From SARS to COVID-19 and Beyond: Public Health Lessons for Buildings
Scientific Conferences and the Pandemic
Beyond Theory: Climate Justice in Practice
Beyond the Declaration: Delivery of GHG Reductions
Research Contributes to Achieving Global Environmental Goals
Can Urban Scale Digital Twins Address Climate Adaptation?
Why Tools for Buildings and Cities Performance Simulation Need to Evolve
Overheating in New Homes: A New Design Tool
Modern Methods of Construction: Unintended Consequences
Architecture and the Climate Emergency
Climate Emergency and Built Environment Education
Research Pathways
A Longitudinal Approach to Research
Creating Adaptive Thermal Comfort
Expanding Boundaries & Negotiating Transitions
Greening China’s Built Environment
50 Years a Cartoonist
Building as Pedagogy: Oberlin's Adam Joseph Lewis Center
The Application of Research: Reconciling Simplicity and Rigour
Living within Planetary Limits: Linking Research, Practice and Teaching
Journey to a Socio-ecological Agenda
Biological Analogy and an Architectural Science
Why Social Theory is Important for Energy Research and the Built Environment
Reviews
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class
Work on the Move 3: Building Better Workplaces After the Pandemic
Thermal Design of Buildings: Understanding Heating, Cooling and Decarbonization
London’s Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub
Architecture & the Public Good
The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
A Future for Planning: Taking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges
Healthy Homes: Designing with Light and Air for Sustainability and Wellbeing
Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy
Energy - People - Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work
Urban Schools: Designing for High Density
Modern Architecture and Climate Design before Air Conditioning
High Office: Fire Safety in Tall, Supertall and Megatall Office Buildings
Dwelling on the Future: Architecture of the Seaside, Middle England and the Metropolis
Urban Planning Against Poverty: How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South
Societies Under Construction: Geographies, Sociologies and Histories of Building
Architecture and Resilience: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Planning Cities with Nature
Building Performance Analysis
Corridors: Passages of Modernity
Urban Lighting for People: Evidence-Based Lighting Design for the Built Environment
The Architecture of Natural Cooling
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment
Urban Energy Landscapes
Design Guide to Low Energy Cooling and Ventilation for Indian Residences
Redeploying Urban Infrastructure: The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures
The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement
Disaster by Choice: How our Actions turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes
Embodied Carbon in Buildings: Measurement, Management and Mitigation
Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector
Remaking Housing Policy: An International Study
Effective Daylighting with High-Performance Facades: Emerging Design Practices
Sustainable Construction, Second Edition
Housing Fit for Purpose: Performance Feedback and Learning
Future Office: Next-generation Workplace Design
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Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health
Retrofitting at Scale: Accelerating Capabilities for Domestic Building Stocks
Urban Densification
Education and Training: Mainstreaming Zero Carbon
Carbon Metrics: Assessing & Controlling GHG Emissions Across Scales
Climate Justice: The Role of the Built Environment
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