by Miles Glendinning (Contributor), Stefan Muthesius

After World War II, the most urgent reconstruction problem in these islands was in the field of public housing, and the opportunity presented itself to create innovative buildings and to finally abolish slums. Everyone, including the slum-dwellers, united behind the plan to build new dwellings as quickly as possible. In this book Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius tell the story of a great adventure of building and explain the architectural and political ideas that lay behind it. The authors tell how high-rise blocks - buildings in a modernist design that promised to address scientific and social needs with unprecedented precision - were constructed in almost every urban area. They explain that architects and planners working for a few "progressive" local authorities were the first to create the new housing patterns, and that powerful local politicians determined to "give the people homes" later encouraged widespread large-scale implementation of these patterns. The authors discuss where the buildings were built and why they looked as they did, describing various designs, construction methods, and community layouts through the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous illustrations and plans complement the text. This book - with its interweaving of architecture and politics, theory and practice, and local and national issues - will interest not only architects and historians of the postwar era but also readers interested in the growth of the Welfare State. The book includes a gazetteer of significant housing developments in Britain that is arranged by regions.

This text aims to provide the reader with the knowledge needed to manage security and fire life safety programmes in high rise buildings. It examines conducting security and fire life safety surveys, effectively managing security programmes and preparing for high rise emergencies.
The primary reason for this book was to give security managers or fire safety directors of high-rise commercial office buildings an easy to read, comprehensive reference for security and fire life safety operations within these unique facilities. The terminology, functions, procedures, equipment and standards for a model security and fire life safety program are all covered. Major events such as the 1988 First Interstate Tower, the 1993 World Trade Center explosion and fire, and the 1995

by H. R. Viswanath (Editor), J. J. A. Tolloczko (Editor), J. N. Clarke (Editor)
This volume presents the papers from the third in a series of international conferences on the design and construction of high-rise towers and tall buildings, organized by the International Federation of High-Rise Structures.
Interest continues to develop in the design and construction of high-rise towers and tall buildings, structures with heights ranging from 75m to 500m and more. This volume presents the papers from the third in a series of international conferences on the subject, organized by the International Federation of High-rise Structures. The papers have been drawn together under the grand theme of the "Conquest of Vertical Space in the 21st Century". The conference was organized by the UK's Concrete Society and sponsored by the IFHS and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte (FIP). This book should be of interest to structural engineers, architects and building services engineers.

by Egbert Koster (Editor), Theo Van Oeffelt (Editor), Theo Van Oeffelt (Editor)

by Wolfgang Schueller

by National Fire Service Incident Management System Consortium

by Mildred Geshwiler (Editor)

by Tai Ding-Ling

by Council on Tall Buildings