Energy and Form: An Ecological Approach to Urban Growth

by Ralph L. Knowles

Book Overview

The pertinence of this book's subject-energy conservation through architectural and urban design-will hardly need belaboring in the 1970s. For more than a decade, Ralph L. Knowles has investigated ways in which buildings, settlements, and even regions can be planned so as to take advantage of natural cycles-in particular, the daily and seasonal rhythms of the sun-in order to minimize the need for supportive energy inputs to maintain internal temperatures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262610256
• ISBN13: 9780262610254
• Release Date: March 1978
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 8.4"