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Research Paper Series
No. 18: Urban Agriculture and Urban Design, Vikram Bhatt, 17 ps., 2011.
No. 17: Making the Edible Campus, Minimum Cost Housing Group, 26 ps., February 2008.
No. 16: Catalogue: Edible Landscape Tools, Minimum Cost Housing Group, 50 ps., May 2005.
No. 15: Housing a Billion: Volume 2- Village Upgrading: Jianlu, China, Vikram Bhatt et al., 65 ps., December 1993.
No. 14: Housing a Billion: Volume 1- Urban Upgrading: Design Ideals for Rural China, Vikram Bhatt et al., 70 ps., January 1993.
No. 12: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 3 - The Self-Selection Process, Vikram Bhatt et al. 44 ps., March 1990.
An illustration (using Indian data) of a new method that allows low-income users to lay out their own plots in large urban sites and services projects.
(Out of print.)
No. 11: Patterns of Space and Human Activity in an Unplanned Settlement, Waldo Pons and Witold Rybczynski 11ps., March 1988.
(Out of print.)
No. 10: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 2 - Plots, Carlos Barquin et al. 53 ps., June 1986.
No. 9: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 1 - Space, Witold Rybczynski et al. 86 ps., December 1984.
No. 7: Sites, Services and Supports (S/S/S), Sigrid Diehl et al.,58 ps., August 1978.
(Out of print.)
No. 5: A Low Cost Garbage Bag Solar Water Heater, V.S. Nataraj & V. Bhatt, 12 ps., August 1980.
(Out of print.)
No. 4: Energy Conservation in Greenhouses Through the Use of Retractable Insulation, W. Rybczynski & V. Bhatt, 76 ps., July 1980.
(Out of print.)
No. 3: Energy Conservation in Greenhouses Through the Use of Retractable Insulation, W. Rybczynski & V. Bhatt, 76 ps., July 1980.
(Out of print.)
No. 2: Users Making Choices: Water and Waste Management in Small Northern Communities, T. Jackson et al., 84 ps., August 1978.
(Out of print.)
No. 1: Servicing Options for African Low-Cost Housing, Mahendra Shah, 115 ps., April 1980.
(Out of print.)
The Problem is Series
Making the Edible Landscape: A Study of Urban Agriculture in Montreal, Vikram Bhatt et al., 87 ps., 2005.
Use it Again, Sam, Witold Rybczynski, ed., 60 ps., 1980.
Stop the Five Gallon Flush, Witold Rybczynski, ed., 47 ps., being revised.
Water Conservation and the Mist Experience, Alex Morse et al., 60 ps., July 1978.
Rooftop Wastelands, Ron Alward et al., 32 ps., November 1976.
L'operation ecol: ecologie + construction + bon sens, Alvaro Ortega et al. (traduit par Bernard et Danielle Lefebvre) 128 pages, photographies, 1975.
The Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common sense, Alvaro Ortega et al. 128 ps., photographs, expanded edition 1975.