Electronic Books

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Sustainable Energy Access for Communities : Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world ...

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Sustainable Mobility for Island Destinations

This book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban ...

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0470537175
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future / Douglas Farr

Embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential ...

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Sustainable Urban Logistics: Planning and Evaluation / Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu

Begins with an overview of research in urban logistics and then describes and defines the main components: flows, actors, ...

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9783955534622
Sustainable Urban Planning : Vibrant Neighbourhoods - Smart Cities - Resilience / Helmut Bott, Stephan Anders, Gregor Grassl

It addresses the fundamental challenges of urban planning today and offers planners essential knowledge, implementation strategies ...

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Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high ...

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978-3-540-71746-1
Territorial Cohesion

"Territorial cohesion" strives for a more balanced spatial development and seeks to improve integration throughout the ...

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9780367458997
The Art of City Sketching : A Field Manual ; Second Edition / Michael Abrams

Guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic, diagrammatic, three-dimensional, ...

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9781138604001
The City on Display : Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons / Joel Robinson

Reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two ...

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978-3-030-63693-7
The Data Shake Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

This book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European ...

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978-3-211-49855-2
The Death of Fashion

When, for a few weeks each year, Western fashion victims become red-hot with excitement waiting for the fashion sales to ...

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978-3-7908-1937-3
The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems

The present book outlines a conceptual framework for modelling and forecasting the dynamics of both growth-limited cities ...

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978-3-540-34488-9
The Emerging Digital Economy

This book provides a balanced, empirically-based view of the "Digital Economy," and explores its regional and geographical ...

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978-1-4020-8371-6
The Forest and the City

From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source ...

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978-1-4020-4908-8
The Future of Sustainability

This book provides a broad discussion on Sustainable Development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm ...

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978-981-13-2694-3
The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

This book presents a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted ...

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978-3-030-66073-4
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods Renaissance and Resurgence

This book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during ...

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978-3-658-25393-6
The Places Where Community Is Practiced

In this book the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable ...

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9781032267982
The Poetics of Arabian Suqs : A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present / Jasmine Shahin

Investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ...

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978-1-4020-6053-3
The Post-Socialist City

This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and ...

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