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Buildings for Education A Multidisciplinary Overview of The Design of School Buildings

This book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast, publicly financed program for the construction ...

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

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Cities After Crisis : Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up / Carlos Garcia Vazquez

The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic ...

Cities and Affordable Housing : Planning, Design and Policy Nexus / Sasha Senkova

Provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and ...

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion : Discourses, Realities and Implementation

The book shows that spatial and urban policy continues to be a key site of policy intervention and experimentation. Different ...

Cities in Transition

This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are ...

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 ...

Climate Risk in Africa Adaptation and Resilience

This book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate ...

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity

This book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this ...

Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations

This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing ...

Complex Artificial Environments

This book explores the possibilities of applying the theories of complexity and self-organization developed to account for ...

Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport

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

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. ...

Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach

This book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization ...

Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a microclimatic phenomenon which manifests as a significant increase in the temperature of ...

Total Books: 21 - 40 /202