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ABLER, Ronald., ADAMS, John, and GOULD, Peter , Spatial Organization: the geographer's view of the world
Prentice-Hall, 1970. [21 Mb pdf download] Scanned version sourced from Penn State University This is a classic of its era. More's the pity that "geographer's" is in the title, because others might shy from it .
APPS, Peter, Grenfell Tower Inquiry diary week 69: ‘It was just unthinkable, you had the makings here of a crisis that you simply couldn’t conceive of’
Inside Housing, 25th March, 2022. Pdf .
BIRCH D.W., I Thought We Were An Anarcho-Syndicalist Cryptocommune: A Distributed Autonomous Organisation Is More Exciting As An Idea Than As A Reality
Blog post. In the future, everyone will be famous for 15Mb, Dave Birch, March 13, 2022 PDF Also, 15Mb: The @dgwbirch Podcast Series interview with Edward Balleisen .
CAVE, Peter with RUTLEDGE, David and SAUNDERS, Alan, The Liar's Paradox and other Philosophical Absurdities
The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio National, Radio Broadcast 13 March, 2010. Transcript | Audio .
COLE, Raymond J., Building-Related Research: New Context, New Challenges
Building & Cities, 18 August, 2025 .
CURRY, Andrew, The climate change conversation is about talking to power
Just Two Things, blog post, June 30,2022. Pdf .
CURRY, Andrew, How Google's Sidewalk Labs got the 'smart city' so wrong.
Just Two Things blog. 1 Nov 2022. Cites Josh O'Kane's 'Sideways the City Google Couldn't Buy' .
DE DEAR, Richard (et al), Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years
Indoor Air 2013; 23: 442–461. Full list of authors : R.J. de Dear, T. Akimoto, E.A. Arens, G. Brager, C. Candido, K.W.D. Cheong, B. Li, N. Nishihara, S.C. Sekhar,S. Tanabe, J. Toftum, H. Zhang, Y. Zhu .
DE DOMENICO, Maniio and SAYAMA, Hiroki (co-odinators), What is Complexity Science?
#ComplexityExplained, 15 contributors (see Credits) .
FISHER, Ronald, Statistical Methods for Research Workers
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1925. This version GREEN, Christopher D., Classics in the History of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada. Online since 1997 ".. the full texts of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines..." Reader version Index by Topic .
GIL B. and COELHO C., Laying the Fundamentals
Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium, pp 13.1-13-13, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal .
GORE, Al, Response on the fossil fuel industry and the arrest of Greta Thunberg in Germany,
World Economic Forum 2023 .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 1
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – The path to disaster
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 2
Part 3 – The testing and marketing of key products
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 3
Part 4 – The Tenant Management Organisation
Part 5 - The management of fire safety at Grenfell Tower
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 4
Part 6 – The refurbishment of Grenfell Tower
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 5
Part 7 – The replacement of the gas riser
Part 8 - The London Fire Brigade
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 6
Part 9 – The deceased
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Vol 7
Part 10 – Response and recovery
Part 11 – Matters outstanding from Phase 1
Part 12 – The fire testing regime
Part 13 – International responses
Part 14 – Recommendations
Appendices
House of Commons .
GRENFELL TOWER INQUIRY, Witness Statement of Jonathan Roper
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HALLIDAY, Sandy, An Ineffective Virus Kills Its Host
RIAS Quarterly, issue 47, Autumn 2021 Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Quarterly back issues .
HATLESKOG E. and SAMUEL F., Mapping Eco-Social Assets: Promoting Eco-Social Value at Orts Road and Newtown, Reading
University of Reading, 40 pp, 2020 . See also Mapping as a strategic tool for evidencing social values and supporting joined-up decision making in Reading, England Taylor Francis Online, paywall. .
HEALY, Keiron, Building a PDP-11/70 Kit
Pdf .
HEINBERG R with MEADOWS D., Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
Resilience.org blog, Feb 22, 2022, Transcript .
HELLMAN, Louis, 50 Years a Cartoonist
Buildings and Cities, Research Pathways, 15 March 2021 Pdf .
HOSSENFELDER, Sabine, No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless
Guardian, 26 September, 2002. Pdf .
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) British Group, The Millennium Bridges Bubble: reflections and lessons 25 years on
IABSE, 2025 IABSE website .
JANSSEN, Rod, The Closet
Energy in Demand: a weekly review of energy in transition The Closet has more than 20 downloadable reports resurrected from obscurity. .
LAMB WF and nine other authors, Discourses Of Climate Delay
Global Sustainability 3, e17, 1–5. As published .
LAROUZEE J. and Le COZE J-C., Good and Bad Reasons: the Swiss cheese model and its critics
Satefy Science, 126 (2020). Open access article. Source | Safety Science .
LEAMAN, Adrian, A Strategic Perspective Suggests Leverage Points
Interactive slide, IMDB, Cambridge (Dec 2022), Allies and Morrison (Nov 2023) .
LÜLEY, Marek, Ephemeral occupancies: Non-linear approach to adaptable architecture
© 2023 Author. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published by the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia .
MAY N., Health and Wholeness
Unpublished, 1 September 2017 .
MITCHELL D. (et al), Revisiting Concepts of Thermal Physiology: Predicting responses of mammals to climate change
Review paper, Jan 2018 Journal of Animal Ecology .
MORLAND K., BRESLIN D., and STEVENSON F., Development of a multi-level learning framework, The Learning Organization
The Learning Organization, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 78-96, 2018. The case study employed here is a large-volume UK housebuilder. Earlier version .
NERLICH, Bridgette, Tools for thinking about an increasingly complex world..
Original post, 2013 Blog post based on CH Waddington's 'Tools for Thought: How to understand and apply the latest scientific techniques of problem solving', Paladin, 1977 .
ORBAŞLI, Aylin, Conservation theory in the twenty-first century: slow evolution or a paradigm shift?
Journal of Architectural Conservation, 23:3, 157-170, 2017. With kind permission Journal of Architectural Conservation .
PRICE B., Developments of Aero-Engine in War 1915 to 1950: Impacts of Knowledge Management and Heuristics in the Configuration of Aero-Engine Architecture
Chpater 17 of STARR, F, MARSHALL, E. and LAWTON B. (eds) , The Piston Engine Revolution, Newcomen Society, April 2011 Newcomen Society' .
REES WIlliam E., The Enigma of Climate Inaction: On the Human Nature of Policy Failure
Institut Des Sciences Cognitives (ISC) 2021 Summer School. Starts at 1:48. .
RICHARDSON, Miles, Biodiversity Stripes – A Journey from Green to Grey
Finding Nature blog, August 10, 2022. Pdf. See also The Living Planet Report 2020: Understanding the Living Planet Index Sourced from Just Two Things blog 11 Aug 2022 .
ROAF S., The Windsor Conferences in Context
Windsor Conference 2020 .
SAGAN, Carl, Sagan on Global Warming and Climate Investment, 1990
@wisdomthruklnowledge .
SAYRE N.F., The Genesis, History, and Limits of Carrying Capacity
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98:1, 120 - 134. Link goes to Taylor & Francis website. .
Schumacher Center for New Economics, EF Schumacher on Film (1977)
Newsletter: Schumacher Center for New Economics, July 2022. Links are accessible within the pdf. The role of appropriate technologies | Ecological limits of modern economic growth | Q&A on the economic system of the future .
SHOVE E., Why social theory is important for energy research and the built environment
Buildings and Cities journal Commentary, Research Legacy: personal reflections on a career in research. Sep 14, 2020. .
SLAUGHTER, R.A., Mapping the Future: Creating a Structural Overview of the Next 20 Years
Journal of Futures Studies 1, 1, 1996, 5-27. For similar interpretative framework see The Logistical City .
STEADMAN P., Biological analogy and an architectural science
Buildings & Cities journal Commentary - Research Legacy: personal reflections on a career in research, September 20, 2020 .
STEADMAN, Philip, Vermeer’s Camera: afterthoughts, and a reply to critics
Vermeer's Camera, Oxford University Press, 2002 | For other publications by Phil Steadman including studies of architectural morphology .
STEADMAN, Philip, Vermeer's Camera and Tim's Vermeer
UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, 5 March 2015. YouTube video. Lower audio volume before opening .
The EDGE, The case for a Public Sector Research Establishment for the Built Environment
edgedebate.com .
The Norwegian Consumer Council, FORBRUKERRÅDET, Breaking Free: pathways to a fair technological future
Pdf Video Rob Nelson, 'Disenshittify U', Review in AI Log of Cory Doctorow's Enshittification .
UK Environmental Audit Committee. Outdoor and indoor air quality, Witness submissions by Tom Woolley, Larissa Lockwood and Nicola Carslew (from 3pm (15:00))
parliamentlive.tv , Wednesday 5 July 2023 Meeting started at 2.18pm, ended 4.18pm. .
WILSON, J., The Intervening State: embracing complexity means greater accountability
Royal Society of Arts (RSA Journal), 3. 2021 . .
ZUCKERMAN, Ethan, Legacy cities and the changing nature of the good life
Ethan Zuckerman, Blog post, August 7, 2022. Pdf .