Title & Author:

Desert planning : international lessons / edited by Gideon Golany.

Publication:

London : Architectural Press ; New York : Nichols Pub. Co., 1982.

Description:

x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

0893971197 (nichols)
9780893971199 (nichols)
0851391532
9780851391533

Subject:

Architecture Arid regions.
Architecture Régions arides.

Added entries:

Golany, Gideon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86775
Call No.: PO15943; ID:86-B17012
Status: Available