Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World

by Bridgette Meinhold

Book Overview

How can we adequately provide housing when disaster strikes, whether that disaster is weather related, like hurricanes, floods, and droughts, happens in a matter of minutes from an earthquake or tsunami, through a slow process like rising sea levels, or is the result of civil disorder or poverty? There is an urgent need for safe, sustainable housing designs that are cheap to build, environmentally friendly, and hardy enough to withstand severe environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393733580
• ISBN13: 9780393733587
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.9"