Electronic Books

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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 ...

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets

As one examines worldwide economic growth over the past decade, it is clear that the U.S. economy has surpassed most of the ...

Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts

This book focuses on the linkage between human and environmental security and takes both a conceptual and a pragmatic approach ...

Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta : An ecological story on evolving human–environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving ...

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 ...

Foresight and Design : Composing Future Places / Mark C. Childs

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve ...

Forest Policies and Social Change in England

The book stresses how values and perceptions shape policies, and conversely how policies can modify perceptions, and also ...

Framing in Sustainability Science Theoretical and Practical Approaches

This book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Handbook of Urban Health

As more people worldwide live in cities, increasingly we need to understand how cities and city living affect population ...

Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

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

Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization

Drawing upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations ...

Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It ...

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling : Learning Design Through Analogy / Bob Scarfo

Introduces a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their ...

Landscape Performance Modeling Using Rhino and Grasshopper / Phillip Zawarus

A guidebook for landscape architects to learn the fundamental practices and use of the computational software Rhino 3D and ...

Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory / Charles Waldheim

Traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing ...

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