Electronic Books

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Comfort and Perception in Architecture / J. Alstan Jakubiec

This book discusses the design of comfortable buildings and shows that design perception and, as a result, comfort should ...

Complexity in Landscape Ecology

Interactions matter. To understand the distributions of plants and animals in a landscape you need to understand how they ...

Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport

This proceedings volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth Int- national Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling ...

Conceptual Landscapes : Fundamentals in the Beginning Design Process / Simon M. Bussiere

Explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental ...

Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development : Mind the Gaps!

Border regions in Central Europe undergo tremendous changes due to the enlargement of the European Union and the related ...

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social ...

Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency / Sofie Pelsmakers, Nick Newman

Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental ...

Designing Green Landscapes

This book presents the latest thinking in adaptive management for forest ecosystems. Based on the ‘multiple path’ principle, ...

Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches

This book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding ...

Designing landscape architectural education : studio ecologies for unpredictable futures / Rosalea Monacella, Bridget Keane

Asks designers and academic practitioners to describe their own work through an ecological lens, and then to articulate design ...

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 ...

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

Digital Landscape Architecture : Logic, Structure, Method and Application / Yuning Cheng

Readers will get a comprehensive understanding of digital landscape architecture, know about multiple digital methods for ...

Digital Photogrammetry

The main part of the book contains several tutorials. In increasing complexity, accompanied by texts explaining further theory, ...

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, ...

Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins : The Central European Basin System

This book documents how researchers from different geo-scientific disciplines have jointly analysed the structural, thermal, ...

Earthquake Early Warning System

The book provides information on the major EEW systems in operation and on the state of the art of the different blocks forming ...

Ecologies Design : Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly, Mark Southcombe

Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both ...

Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes

The book elucidates the challenges faced by ecosystem scientists working in spatially heterogeneous systems, relevant conceptual ...

Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape

Presents the major findings of a 12-year ecological study of the Bornhöved Lake District, situated some 30 km south of Kiel. ...

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