DESERT PLANNING: INTERNATIONAL LESSONS
Written by Gideon Golany
Published by The Architectural Press
in 1982
ISBN: 0851391532
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DESERT PLANNING: INTERNATIONAL LESSONS
Written by Gideon Golany.
Stock no. 2130080
1st.
1982.
Hardback.
Large format.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
This book provides technical guidance for the whole range of professionals involved in arid-zone development: planners, community-builders, architects, policy-makers and economists. Edited by Gideon Golany. Large format. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. x and 164 pages including index. ISBN: 0851391532. Marks along bottom edge of covers and light fading. Page edge browning. Dustwrapper is edge-creased with fading to spine and top edge, a little grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- PART ONE: URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
- Arid-zone development policy and strategy
- Town design in the arid Pilbara of Western Australia
- Urban and architectural planning in war, arid zones
- Feasibility of the Australian desert coast for future urban settlements
- City building in the hot climatic zones
- A systems approach to urban planning in arid zones
- Integrated rural area planning: the Lachish Region
- PART TWO: ENERGY AND WATER RESOURCES
- Land use and energy conservation in an arid-zone city: Tucson, Arizona
- Managing a finite groundwater supply in Arizona's Santa Cruz Basin
- PART THREE: DESIGN OF HUMAN SHELTER
- Southwestern Pueblo architecture: some implications for modern housing design
- Building in hot, dry climates
- Housing and community development in Australia's arid zone
- The influence of arid-zone climate on house design in Sudan
- Settlements and housing in an arid-zone developing country: case study in Hausaland, Northern Nigeria