Tropical Sustainable Architecture : Social and Environmental Dimensions

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Foreword; 1 Social and Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Sustainable Architecture Introductory Comments; 2 Rethinking Design Methodology for Sustainable Social Quality; 3 The Selective Environment Environmental Design and Cultural Identity; 4 Green Design in the Hot Humid Tropical Zone; 5 Socio Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Semi open Spaces of High rise Housing in Singapore; 6 BEAMs and Architectural Design in Singapore Public Housing; 7 Policy and Evaluation System for Green Building in Subtropical Taiwan. 8 In Search of a Habitable Urban Space Built Ratio A Case Study of Building and Planning Regulation in Dhaka City9 Designing High Density Cities Parametric Studies of Urban Morphologies and their Implied Environmental Performance; 10 The Urban Heat Island Effect in Singapore; 11 Tropical Urban Street Canyons; 12 Tropical and Traditional Inventing a New Housing Model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi Vietnam; 13 ECOPET 21 An Innovative Sustainable Buildin