TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bay,Joo-Hwa
AU  - Ong,Boon Lay
TI  - Tropical sustainable architecture: social and environmental dimensions 
SN  - 0750667974
AV  - NA2542.T7 T767 2006
U1  - 720.913 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Architectural
KW  - Architecture, Tropical
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Sustainable architecture
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Architecture and society
N1  - Selected conference papers; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Social and environmental dimensions in tropical sustainable architecture : introductory comments; Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon-Lay Ong --; 2; Rethinking design methodology for sustainable social quality; Alexander Tzonis --; 3; The selective environment : environmental design and cultural identity; Dean Hawkes --; 4; Green design in the hot humid tropical zone; Ken Yeang --; 5; Socio-environmental dimensions in tropical semi-open spaces of high-rise housing in Singapore; Joo-Hwa Bay, Na Wang, Qian Liang and Ping Kong --; 6; BEAMs and architectural design in Singapore public housing; Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam --; 7; Policy and evaluation system for green building in subtropical Taiwan; Hsien-Te Lin --; 8; In search of a habitable urban space-built ratio : a case study of building and planning regulation in Dhaka City; Q. M. Mahtab-uz-Zaman, Fuad H. Mallick, A. Q. M. Abdullah and Jalal Ahmad --; 9; Designing high density cities - parametric studies of urban morphologies and their implied environmental performance; Edward Ng, Tak-Yan Chan, Vicky Cheng, Nyuk Hien Wong and Meiqi Han --; 10; The urban heat island effect in Singapore; Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu --; 11; Tropical urban street canyons; Elias Salleh --; 12; Tropical and traditional : inventing a new housing model for the old 36 streets quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam; Shoichi Ota --; 13; ECOPET 21 : an innovative sustainable building system for ecological communities in tropical regions; Jose Roberto Garcia Chavez --; 14; Is sustainability sustainable? : interrogating the tropical paradigm in Asian architecture; Anoma Pieris
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