TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bay, Joo-Hwa.
AU  - Ong, Boon Lay.
TI  - Tropical sustainable architecture: social and environmental dimensions 
SN  - 9780750667975
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, Burlington, MA
PB  - Architectural Press
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Architecture, Tropical
KW  - Sustainable architecture
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Design with nature : tropical design
KW  - ARCH 185
N1  - RC Songcayaoun (Recommending faculty) AY2016-2017; Selected conference papers.; Includes bibliographical references and index; Social and Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Introductory Comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong -- Architectural and Environmental Theories -- Rethinking Design Methodology for Sustainable Social Quality / Alexander Tzonis -- The Selective Environment: Environmental Design and Cultural Identity / Dean Hawkes -- Green Design in the Hot Humid Tropical Zone / Ken Yeang -- High-rise High-density Living -- Socio-Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Semi-open Spaces of High-rise Housing in Singapore Public Housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- Building and Planning Requirements -- Policy and Evaluation System for Green Building in Subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- 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 -- Urban Environmental Impacts -- 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 -- THe Urban Heat Island Effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- Tropical Urban Street Canyons / Elias Salleh -- Experimental Sustainable Projects -- Tropical and Traditional: Inventing a New Housing Model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- ECOPET 21: An Innovative Sustainable Building System for Ecological COmmunitites in Tropical Regions Jose Robert Garcia Chavez -- Critique on Tropical Architecture -- Is Sustainability Sustainable? Interrogating the Tropical Paradigm in Asian Architecture / Anoma Pieris. 	
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