Studying the Built Environment

This unique book introduces students to the themes and aspects of studying the built environment. Contemporary issues such as sustainability and urbanization preface the explanation of the core subject disciplines of architecture, construction management, planning, real estate management and surveying. The distinctive student experience of learning about the built environment is explored with a focus upon learning and teaching methods, learning skills and assessment. The final chapter of the book looks at the links between academic study and professional practice.>

About the author

MARION TEMPLE is Head of Professional and Academic Development, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Temple
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 23.08.2004
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
• EAN: 9780333969199
• ISBN: 978-0-333-96919-9
• Pages: 212
• Series: Palgrave Study Skills; Macmillan Study Skills; Bloomsbury Study Skills
• Subjects: B; Earth and Environmental Science; Study skills; Study and Learning Skills