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Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices

As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban ...

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Principles and Application

This book focuses on the practical application of electromagnetic polarimetry principles in Earth remote sensing with an ...

Political Economies of Landscape Change : Places of Integrative Power

This book examines the complex relationships between political economy and landscape change. It encompasses perspectives ...

Railway Development

This book addresses the role of railways in urban development. The central aim is to inquire into how especially the development ...

Railway Ecology

The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical principles ...

Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity / Jonathan Bach and Michał Murawski

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand ...

Reclaiming the Land

Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, ...

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage / Sergey Sementsov, Alexander Leontyev, Santiago Huerta, Ignacio Menéndez Pidal de Nava

includes contributions on the protection, and restoration of architectural monuments and the reconstruction of major historical ...

Reflections on African Cities in Transition: Selected Continental Experiences

Describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid ...

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

Regenerative Territories : Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

This book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories ...

Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

This volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, ...

Regionalization of Watersheds : An Approach Based on Cluster Analysis

Clustering techniques are used to identify group(s) of watersheds which have similar flood characteristics. This book is ...

Reimagining sustainable cities : strategies for designing greener, healthier, more equitable communities / Stephen M. Wheeler, Christina Rosan

A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures. ...

Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through ...

Representing Landscapes : One Hundred Years of Visual Communication / Nadia Amoroso, Martin Holland

Provides an in-depth historical overview of graphic and visual communication styles, techniques and outputs from key landscape ...

Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

Written from a spatial perspective, and with a unique interdisciplinary component. This practical textbook blends concrete ...

Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats

Cities tend to become more crowded, the high rise buildings taller, the traffic nodes more complex. The volume of hazardous ...

Resilient Urban Futures

This book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. ...

Restructing Eastern Germany

This yearbook of urban and regional studies provides English language papers on spatial development research on Germany and ...

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