Asia Pacific chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy Professor Peter Droege has launched a new book showcasing innovative approaches to sustainable design and planning. Edited with global design and engineering company AECOM, Climate Design explores the current paradigm shift towards low carbon developments, illustrating how ...Read More > >

Resilient Cities.  Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change by Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer Island Press. 2008. Review by Greg Paine Cities are in constant change. But are they heading in the right direction? This book suggests they (we) are not. At the same time it remains positive – pointing, ...Read More > >

AUSTRALIAN URBAN PLANNING: New Challenges, New Agendas by Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low Designed for use by academics, students, planning professionals and anyone who takes an interest in the development of cities, this timely book explains the changes that have transformed planning in Australia and reinstates the need for planning based on ...Read More > >

ECODESIGN, A Manual for Ecological Design is fundamentally an instruction manual. Ken Yeang offers his thoughts and a great deal of specific content on how our built environment can, and must, integrate with the natural environment. The goal of ECODESIGN is to provide designers with a set of instructions so ...Read More > >