101 Rules of Thumb for Sustainable Buildings and Cities

Notes, observations and references – a narrative bibliography

The books, journals, research papers and websites cited in the following narrative bibliography are a very small selection from a very large pool of resources. They have been chosen because they have been found to be particularly useful in answering this author’s inexhaustible questions about sustainability, in explaining things, and as prompts to memory because the subject is too large and complex to keep constantly in mind. Some texts, representing the broad range of topics and issues, sit always close at hand, and these are listed as an author’s ‘top ten’ so that the busy student, professional, client, owner, operator or occupant might find a ready resource to help with any ...