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Building Type Basics for Housing

By: Joan Goody,Robert Chandler,John Clancy,David Dixon,Geoffrey Wooding

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Building Type Basics for Housing

By: Joan Goody,Robert Chandler,John Clancy,David Dixon,Geoffrey Wooding

Essential information for the design of housing Building Type Basics for Housing, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the design process and successfully complete the design for housing, large or small, on time and within budget. Members of the award-winning design firm Goody Clancy share their firsthand knowledge to guide you through all aspects of designing and building residences. The book presents knowledgeable, real-world advice for architects, planners, engineers, and developers to create excellent residential design projects for a variety of housing types. This updated edition offers a new collection of detailed project examples that represent the best in today's housing designs, including more information on sustainable design and a fresh look at mixed-use developments increasingly popular in urban areas. It walks the reader through the guidelines, planning concepts, and lessons learned—from single-family detached homes and townhouses to multi-family, mid-rise, and high-rise buildings. Coverage also includes essential topics such as community planning, site layout, zoning and code issues, parking strategies, and the selection of building materials. This new edition: Asks and answers twenty questions that frequently arise in the early phases of a residential commission Provides a number of residential examples—new to this edition—from the last decade, covering the full range of housing densities Is illustrated with numerous photographs, diagrams, plans, and sections Shows how to obtain financing, approvals, and support for developments Includes new information on sustainability, which is incorporated throughout the book This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for busy, dedicated professionals who want to get moving quickly as they embark on a new project. Like every Building Type Basics book, it provides authoritative, up-to-date information instantly and saves professionals countless hours of research.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470404647

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Modelling Spatial Housing Markets

Theory, Analysis and Policy

By: Geoffrey Meen

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Modelling Spatial Housing Markets

Theory, Analysis and Policy

By: Geoffrey Meen

Spatial fixity is one of the characteristics that distinguishes housing from most other goods and services in the economy. In general, housing cannot be moved from one part of the country to another in response to shortages or excesses in particular areas. The modelling of housing markets and the interlinkages between markets at different spatial levels - international, national, regional and urban - are the main themes of this book. A second major theme is disaggregation, not only in terms of space, but also between households. The book argues that aggregate time-series models of housing markets of the type widely used in Britain and also in other countries in the past have become less relevant in a world of increasing income dispersion. Typically, aggregate relationships will break down, except under special conditions. We can no longer assume that traditional location or tenure patterns, for example, will continue in the future. The book has four main components. First, it discusses trends in housing markets both internationally and within nations. Second, the book develops theoretical housing models at each spatial scale, starting with national models, moving down to the regional level and, then, to urban models. Third, the book provides empirical estimates of the models and, finally, the models are used for policy analysis. Analysis ranges over a wide variety of topics, including explanations for differing international house price trends, the causes of housing cycles, the role of credit markets, regional housing market interactions and the role of housing in urban/suburban population drift.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461516730

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9781461516736

Twelve Modern Houses, 1945-1985

From the Collections of the Canadian Architectural Archives

By: Graham Livesey,University of Calgary. Canadian Architectural Archives,Michael McMordie,Geoffrey Simmins

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Twelve Modern Houses, 1945-1985

From the Collections of the Canadian Architectural Archives

By: Graham Livesey,University of Calgary. Canadian Architectural Archives,Michael McMordie,Geoffrey Simmins

This publication, part of the ongoing mandate of the Canadian Architectural Archives to examine the characteristics of Canadian architecture as reflected in the collections of the University of Calgary Library, examines twelve architect-created houses designed between the 1940s and the 1980s for several distinct regions of Canada. The architects chosen number among the most prolific and best known in Canada who were working during this period, including Raymond T. Affleck, Raymond Moriyama, Arthur Erickson, Douglas Cardinal, John B. Parkin Associates, and Patkau Architects.Other architects with perhaps a more regional reputation have also been included, such as the Vancouver-based firm of McCarter & Nairne, Calgary's Jack Long, and Edmonton's Peter Hemingway.Apart from the documentation of the twelve houses (drawings and photos), there are interpretative essays on each. A co-authored introductory essay explores several related themes: modernity, the contemporary house, approaches to landscape, and the role of drawings in contemporary practice.

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University of Calgary Press

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1895176727

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Housing Economics

A Historical Approach

By: Geoffrey Meen,Kenneth Gibb,Chris Leishman,Christian Nygaard

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Housing Economics

A Historical Approach

By: Geoffrey Meen,Kenneth Gibb,Chris Leishman,Christian Nygaard

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and urban housing issues, from the Victorian era onwards. A historical perspective sheds light on modern problems and the constraints on what can be achieved; it concentrates on the key policy issues of housing supply, affordability, tenure, the distribution of migrant communities, mortgage markets and household mobility. Local case studies are interwoven with city-wide aggregate analysis. Three sets of issues are addressed: the underlying reasons for the initial establishment of residential neighbourhoods, the processes that generate growth, decline and patterns of integration/segregation, and the impact of historical development on current problems and the implications for policy.

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1137472715

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An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65

By: Geoffrey London,Philip Goad,Conrad Hamann

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An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65

By: Geoffrey London,Philip Goad,Conrad Hamann

Architect-designed houses of the period 1950-65 proposed an innovative response to the social, economic, and climatic conditions of post-war Australia. At the same time they embraced the aesthetic, technological, and egalitarian aspirations of modern architecture. An Unfinished Experiment in Living traces the emergence of this architectural phenomenon in Australia, documenting the full range of its expression: from the postwar optimism of the early 1950s through to the affluence of the 1960s. It is a catalogue of the most significant houses of the period. It includes comprehensive plans and period photographs of 150 houses from around Australia, dating from a time when the great Australian dream was the single family house. This book puts forward new research founded on the premise that the most significant houses of the 1950s and 60s represent an unfinished and undervalued experiment in modern living. Issues such as the open plan, the changing nature of the family, the embrace of advances in technology, the use of the courtyard, and the orientation of the house to capture sun and privacy, were valuable and critical lessons. This is a compelling reminder of their continuing relevance. [Subject: Architecture, Design, Australian History, Sociology]

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University of Western Australia Press

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1742586694

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The Urban Housing Manual

Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor

By: Geoffrey K. Payne,Michael Majale

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The Urban Housing Manual

Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor

By: Geoffrey K. Payne,Michael Majale

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Earthscan

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1844071480

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Understanding Affordability

The Economics of Housing Markets

By: Geoffrey Meen,Christine Whitehead

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Understanding Affordability

The Economics of Housing Markets

By: Geoffrey Meen,Christine Whitehead

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists – and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today’s most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.

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Policy Press

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1529211891

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Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health

Towards Empowerment and Community

By: Geoffrey Brian Nelson,John Lord,Joanna Ochocka

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Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health

Towards Empowerment and Community

By: Geoffrey Brian Nelson,John Lord,Joanna Ochocka

Examines changes in the values and practices within community mental health that occurred between 1984 and 1998 in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. A valuable guide for future research, and for consumers and administrators in the mental health field.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802083552

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9780802083555

Economic Principles and Problems - A Pluralist Introduction

Special Sale for Roskilde University Basic Course in Socio-Economics

By: Geoffrey Schneider

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Economic Principles and Problems - A Pluralist Introduction

Special Sale for Roskilde University Basic Course in Socio-Economics

By: Geoffrey Schneider

Economic Principles and Problems: A Pluralistic Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to the major perspectives in modern economics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches. Through providing multiple views of markets and how they work, it leaves readers better able to understand and analyze the complex behaviors of consumers, firms, and government officials, as well as the likely impact of a variety of economic events and policies. Most principles of economics textbooks cover only mainstream economics, ignoring rich heterodox ideas. They also lack material on the great economists, including the important ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. Mainstream books tend to neglect the kind of historical analysis that is crucial to understanding trends that help us predict the future. Moreover, they focus primarily on abstract models more than existing economic realities. This engaging book addresses these inadequacies. Including explicit coverage of mainstream economics and the major heterodox schools of economic thought—institutionalists, feminists, radical political economists, post-Keynesians, Austrians, and social economists—it allows the reader to choose which ideas they find most compelling in explaining modern economic realities. Written in an engaging style and focused on real-world examples, this textbook brings economics to life. Multiple examples of how each economic model works, coupled with critical analysis of the assumptions behind them, enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the material. Digital supplements are also available for students and instructors. Economic Principles and Problems offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralist economics class.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040023959

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A Red Bird in a Brown Bag

The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch

By: Geoffrey Edward Hill

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A Red Bird in a Brown Bag

The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch

By: Geoffrey Edward Hill

Presents a study on the evolution of sexual selection in birds as addressed through a research program by an ornithologist. This book also gives a portrait of the challenges and constraints of experimental design facing any field investigator working with animal behaviour.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195148487

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521434696

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9780521434690

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town

A Guide to Its Social History

By: Geoffrey Blodgett

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Oberlin Architecture, College and Town

A Guide to Its Social History

By: Geoffrey Blodgett

Contains brief vignettes that describe approximately 130 buildings on Oberlin's campus and in the surrounding town which were built between 1837 and 1977, and includes photographs.

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Kent State University Press

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0873383095

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9780873383097

Paths Towards a New World

By: Mats Larsson,Geoffrey Lemdahl

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Paths Towards a New World

By: Mats Larsson,Geoffrey Lemdahl

Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and water influenced peoples lives in many ways and the development of often long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of foreign stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations, such as the introduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic, incorporating characteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with the Funnel Beaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burial monuments, while retaining some specific regional and local expressions in material culture. Later, certain characteristics of the Pitted Ware Culture, such as specific types of pottery decoration, were taken up in some areas while the emergence of some regional groups can be seen as a step in the ideological and social changes that led to what we today call the Battle Axe Culture. Towards the end of the Stone Age the battle axe was replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a more stable society emerged in many parts of the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agriculture and the raising of livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.

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Oxbow Books

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1782972579

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9781782972570

Fred Cumberland

Building the Victorian Dream

By: Geoffrey Simmins,Frederic William Cumberland

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Fred Cumberland

Building the Victorian Dream

By: Geoffrey Simmins,Frederic William Cumberland

Fred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto's urban landscape.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802006795

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9780802006790

Hyping Health Risks

Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology

By: Geoffrey Kabat

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Hyping Health Risks

Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology

By: Geoffrey Kabat

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect. Kabat approaches health scares as "social facts" and shows that a variety of factors can contribute to the inflating of a hazard. These include skewed reporting by the media, but also, surprisingly, the actions of researchers who may emphasize certain findings while ignoring others; regulatory and health agencies eager to show their responsiveness to the health concerns of the public; and politicians and advocates with a stake in a particular outcome. By means of four case studies, Kabat demonstrates how a powerful confluence of interests can lead to overstating or distorting the scientific evidence. He considers the health risks of pollutants such as DDT as a cause of breast cancer, electromagnetic fields from power lines, radon within residences, and secondhand tobacco smoke. Tracing the trajectory of each of these hazards from its initial emergence to the present, Kabat shows how publication of more rigorous studies and critical assessments ultimately help put hazards in perspective.

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Columbia University Press

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0231141491

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9780231141499

Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

By: Geoffrey Beard,Jeff Orton,Richard Ireland

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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

By: Geoffrey Beard,Jeff Orton,Richard Ireland

Decorative plasterwork was created by skilled craftsmen, and for over four hundred years it has been an essential part of the interior decoration of the British country house. In this detailed and comprehensive study, Geoffrey Beard has created a book that will delight the eye and inform the interested reader. For those who have sometimes been puzzled by the complexities of plaster decoration it will be a most useful work of reference on a fascinating art form, about which no book has been published for nearly fifty years. After discussing the part that patrons played in commissioning and financing these beautiful decorations, a useful chapter is devoted to materials and methods of work and here the author describes the ingredients of good plaster; he has studied the work of present-day English plasterers and Swiss stucco-restorers in order to establish precisely how the materials of plaster and stucco were composed and used.

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Routledge

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1317742885

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Managerial Accounting

By: Ramji Balakrishnan,Konduru Sivaramakrishnan,Geoffrey B. Sprinkle

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Managerial Accounting

By: Ramji Balakrishnan,Konduru Sivaramakrishnan,Geoffrey B. Sprinkle

Most managerial accounting texts emphasize the mechanics of managerial accounting. While important, mechanics are not enough. To solve business problems, students need to understand how managerial accounting can improve decision-making, and when and where a particular tool or technique is appropriate. Balakrishnan’s Managerial Accounting 1st edition presents accounting information in the context of business decision making. It combines the traditional topics of managerial accounting with a strategic framework that shows students how to construct decision models and measure information. By linking business decisions with accounting information students will be motivated to learn and make more informed decisions. Balakrishnan will appeal to courses where there is a true focus on decision making and accounting is placed within a business context.

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0471467855

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