Books Received - January 2012

Sustainable and Resilient Communities - A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions

Stephen Coyle

John Wiley & Sons  | Hardback  | 416 pp.  | £57.50

Water Sensitive Urban Design - Principles and Inspiration for Sustainable Stormwater Management in the City of the Future

Jacqueline Hoyer, Wolfgang Dickhaut, Lukas Kronawitter, Björn Weber

Jovis  | Softcover  | 144 pp.  | £28.00

The Vertical Garden - From Nature to the City, Revised and updated

Patrick Blanc

W.W Norton & Company  | Hardcover  | 208 pp.  | £39.99

Operational and embodied carbon in new build housing - A reappraisal

Toby Balson, Flavie Lowres, Katie Johnson

NHBC Foundation | Softcover | 30 pp. | available online

Low carbon cooking appliances

Toby Balson, Andrew Gemmell

NHBC Foundation | Softcover | 35 pp. | available online

A number of publications have also been released by BRE:

BRE, Bio-resins in construction, A review of current and future developments, by Ed Suttie.

Potential for reducing carbon emissions from commercial and public-sector buildings, by Christine Pout and Fiona MacKenzie, BRE.

Flood-resilient building, Part 1: Legislation, planning, flood risk assessment and performance of buildings, by Stephen Garvin, BRE.

Flood-resilient building, Part 2: Building in flood-risk areas and designing flood-resilient buildings, by Stephen Garvin, BRE.

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