Get Sust! Issue 37

BOOK OF THE MONTH and offers from Earthscan

20% OFF: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places
by Henry Shaftoe

“Brilliant! This thoughtful and illuminating book fills a significant gap in urban design literature and is a must-have reference book.”

Michele Lavelle, Partner in 4D Landscape Design

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book draws on research, and the literature and theory of environmental psychology and urban design, to advance our understanding of what makes effective public spaces. Practical guidance is illustrated with case studies from the UK, Spain, Germany and Italy.

The result is a practical and clearly presented guide to urban public space for planners, architects and students of the urban environment.

• Hardback, 978-1-84407-388-7, RRP £39.95, Get Sust! Price £32.00 www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=672
• Quote the following code in the ‘voucher code’ box when checking out: S73

EXCLUSIVE GET SUST! MONTHLY OFFER

 

50% OFF: Solar Architecture in Cool Climates

by Colin Porteous with Kerr MacGregor

“A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment.”

Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society

Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on low-energy building design, combining accessible information with convincing arguments enabling new techniques to be implemented in daily practice.

Approaching the topic in a thematic manner, the book provides inspiration, an understanding of key principles and technical data on the design of solar buildings in higher latitudes. The text is enlivened through direct experience of case studies from Europe and North America dealing with new-build, retrofitting and conceptual projects that outline future potential (the principles being equally applicable to equivalent southern latitude locations.

Hardback, 978-1-87393-130-2, RRP £80.00, Get Sust! Price £40.00. Click the link for more details and full contents list:

Paperback, 978-1-84407-281-1, RRP £60.00, Get Sust! Price £30.00. www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=229

Quote the following code in the ‘voucher code’ box when checking out: GetSustJune