Electronic Books

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction / Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide ...

A beginner's guide to urban design and development : the ABC of quality, sustainable design / Laura B. Alvarez

Provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience ...

Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat

This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...

Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010 / Sandra Hofmeister, Heide Wessely

Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...

Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities / Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie, Kim Kullman

Connects the study of design with care, and explores how concepts of care may have relevance for the ways in which urban ...

Changing places : the science and art of new urban planning / Charles C. Branas, John Michael MacDonald, Robert Stokes

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable

Cities for people / Jan Gehl

Presents latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses ...

City Logistics 1: New Opportunities and Challenges / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson

Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...

City Logistics 2: Modeling and Planning Initiatives / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson

Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...

City Logistics 3: Towards Sustainable and Liveable Cities / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson

Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...

City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice / Sascha Roesler

Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce ...

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

Cost Accounting for Shared IT Infrastructures

Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today’s data centres. A usage-based allocation ...

Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe

Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...

Designing sustainable and resilient cities : small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management / Alessandro Melis, Julia Catherine Brown, Claire Coulter

Explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to ...

Drawing the Ground - Landscape Urbanism Today : The Work of Palmbout Urban Landscapes / Frits Palmboom

Documents some fifteen projects organized into six thematic blocks, including such extensive projects as Amsterdam Ijburg, ...

Essential Urban Design : A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners / Rob Cowan

Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary ...

Essentials of Urban Design / Mark Sheppard

Explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design ...

Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design / Roger Trancik

Offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis ...

Groundwater Management in Asian Cities : Technology and Policy for Sustainability

The number of city dwellers who do not have access to piped water and rely on groundwater is also increasing. In many Asian ...

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