Tropical sustainable architecture : social and environmental dimensions / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong.
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.