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The Restless Compendium : Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites

This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation ...

The STEREO Mission

The STEREO mission uses twin heliospheric orbiters to track solar disturbances from their initiation to 1 AU. This book ...

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces / William H Whyte

A standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture ...

The Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and ...

The Territorial Future of the City

The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of ...

The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe

The book explores urban dynamics in post-socialist Europe 15 years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ metaphor ...

The complete urban sketching companion : essential concepts and techniques from the urban sketching handbooks / Gabriel Campanario, Stephanie Bower, Shari Blaukopf

Provides instruction and inspiration for sketching architecture, cityscapes, people, and motion, plus lessons on perspective ...

Thin Place Design : Architecture of the Numinous / Phillip James Tabb

Aims to expand the discussion about thin places, how they work and why they are important. It explores the origins and characteristics ...

Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology - An Anthology

A collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical Mediterranean, global environmental and ...

Transport and Town Planning: The City in Search of Sustainable Development / Jean Laterrasse

explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment. Based on ...

Urban Design / Christa Reicher

In this basic textbook, prospective architects, urban and landscape planners receive assistance in working on urban development ...

Urban Ecology : An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. This book presents ...

Urban Environmental Management and Technology

This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...

Urban Forests and Trees

This publication is the result of more than six years of hard work by a dedicated group of European urban forest and tree ...

Urban Informatics

This book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect ...

Urban Landscape Perspectives

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. Articles in ...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...

Urban Operating Systems: Producing the Computational City

A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Urban Planning in the Digital Age / Nicolas Douay

Technological changes have often produced important social changes that translate into spatial and planning practice. Whereas ...

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