Description |
x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Urban planning and design. 1. Arid-zone development policy and strategy / Gideon Golany -- 2. Town design in the arid Pilbara of Western Australia / Herbert Calderbank Green -- 3. Urban and architectural planning in warm, arid zones / Lütfi Zeren -- 4. Feasibility of the Australian desert coast for future urban settlements / Ernest Gordon Hallsworth -- 5. City building in the hot climatic zones / A.N. Rimsha -- 6. A systems approach to urban planning in arid zones / John F. Brotchie -- 7. Integrated rural area planning: the Lachish region / Yitzhak Abt -- pt. 2. Energy and water resources. 8. Land use and energy conservation in an arid-zone city: Tucson, Arizona / Peter Mahony -- 9. Managing a finite groundwater supply in Arizona's Santa Cruz Basin / Kennith E. Foster -- pt. 3. Design of human shelter. 10. Southwestern Pueblo architecture: some implications for modern housing design / Jonathan Eric Reyman -- 11. Building designs in hot, dry climates / Miles Danby -- 12. Housing and community development in Australia's arid zone / Balwant Singh Saini -- 13. The influence of arid-zone climate on house design in Sudan / W.J. Kidd -- 14. Settlements and housing in an arid-zone developing country: case study in Hausaland, Northern Nigeria / J.C. Moughtin |
Summary |
"This book provides technical guidance for the whole range of professionals involved in arid-zone development: planners, community builders, architects, policy makers and economists. it covers such varied fields as urban planning and architectural form, groundwater supply an desalination, environmental control, migration and social development" -- Dust jacket |
Analysis |
Architecture Arid regions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Subject |
Architecture and climate -- Arid regions
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Architecture -- Arid regions.
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Architecture, Domestic -- Arid regions.
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Arid regions -- Planning.
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Arid regions.
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Desert resources development.
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Urbanization -- Arid Regions
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Author |
Golany, Gideon.
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LC no. |
82014086 |
ISBN |
0893971197 |
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