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, ...

Analysis and Development of Sustainable Urban Production Systems

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges. Urban ...

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 ...

Conceptions of the Desirable

Right in the heart of Graz, the second largest city in Austria, an entire city district had simply fallen into oblivion. ...

Decoding the City Urbanism in the Age of Big Data / Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti

Shows how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital ...

Designing sustainable cities / Rob Roggema

Emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism ...

Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure : Developments in the Period 2016–2020 / Bruno Peuportier, Fabien Leurent, Jean Roger-Estrade

Reviews the second five-year sequence of the Chair, first presenting methodological advances in eco-design: life cycle assessment ...

Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours Vibrant Matter(s)

This book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations.

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 ...

Greening the Greyfields : New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of Low-Density Cities

This book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges ...

Handbook of Smart Cities

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities. It provides the reader ...

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, ...

Human-Nature Interactions : Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes / Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl

Highlights how humans value nature, the opportunities and challenges in changing socio-ecological systems Provides insights ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

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

Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas

This book also includes several case studies concerning landscape analysis and evaluation using spatial analysis and landscape ...

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 ...

Modelling Environmental Dynamics : Advances in Geomatic Solutions

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response ...

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, ...

Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception

This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds ...

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