Electronic Books

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A City in Blue and Green

Highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...

An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans : The Case Study of Kavala / Velika Ivkovska

Presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long ...

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 ...

Drawing Architecture: The beginner's guide to drawing and painting buildings / Richard Taylor

A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban ...

Fundamental Trends in City Development

This book inquires into how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions ...

Geographies of Schooling

This book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

This book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The ...

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games Planning Legacies

This book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los ...

Neighbourhoods in Transition : Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas

This book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, ...

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

This book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. ...

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Principles and Application

This book focuses on the practical application of electromagnetic polarimetry principles in Earth remote sensing with an ...

Railway Ecology

The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical principles ...

Resilient Urban Futures

This book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. ...

Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World / Malcolm Eames, Tim Dixon, Miriam Hunt, Simon Lannon

A groundbreaking exploration of the most promising new ideas for creating the sustainable cities of tomorrow. Reviews the ...

Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research / Kate Bishop, Linda Corkery

Presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems ...

Small Town Sustainability : Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation / Paul Knox, Heike Mayer

Illustrate how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and based on case studies, movements, ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

Sustainable Urban Planning : Vibrant Neighbourhoods - Smart Cities - Resilience / Helmut Bott, Stephan Anders, Gregor Grassl

It addresses the fundamental challenges of urban planning today and offers planners essential knowledge, implementation strategies ...

The Data Shake Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

This book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European ...

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