Electronic Books

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Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities / Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie, Kim Kullman

Connects the study of design with care, and explores how concepts of care may have relevance for the ways in which urban ...

Changing places : the science and art of new urban planning / Charles C. Branas, John Michael MacDonald, Robert Stokes

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable

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 ...

Cost Accounting for Shared IT Infrastructures

Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today’s data centres. A usage-based allocation ...

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 ...

Guerrilla Capacity Planning

Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever ...

High Performance SQL Server " Consistent Response for Mission-Critical Applications / Benjamin Nevarez

An excellent complement to query performance tuning books and provides the other half of what you need to know by focusing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Landscapists / Ed Wall

Who defines the landscapes around us? What practices are employed as contemporary landscapes are produced? This issue argues ...

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 Environmental Management and Technology

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

Urban Planning in the Digital Age / Nicolas Douay

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

Worldmodelling architectural models in the 21st century / Mark Morris, Mike Aling

As architects postulate ever-increasing complex world models from which to draw inspiration and inform their practice, questions ...

Worldmodelling: Architectural Models in the 21st Century / Mark Morris, Mike Aling

Worldbuilding is the creation of imaginary worlds through forms of cultural production. Although this discourse began with ...

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