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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 ...

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data Augmented Design

This book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented Design (DAD) ...

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 ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

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