Electronic Books

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A beginner's guide to urban design and development : the ABC of quality, sustainable design / Laura B. Alvarez

Provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience ...

Advances in Urban Ecology : Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems

The future of Earth’s ecosystems is increasingly influenced by the pace and patterns of urbanization. One of the greatest ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : The Invisible made Visible Phase 1

This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven ...

Analysis and Development of Sustainable Urban Production Systems

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges. Urban ...

Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat

This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe

Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...

Designing sustainable and resilient cities : small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management / Alessandro Melis, Julia Catherine Brown, Claire Coulter

Explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to ...

Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure : Developments in the Period 2016–2020 / Bruno Peuportier, Fabien Leurent, Jean Roger-Estrade

Reviews the second five-year sequence of the Chair, first presenting methodological advances in eco-design: life cycle assessment ...

Enterprising Worlds

Enterprising World represents the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters ...

Essential Urban Design : A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners / Rob Cowan

Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary ...

Essentials of Urban Design / Mark Sheppard

Explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design ...

Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours Vibrant Matter(s)

This book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations.

Globalization and Urban Development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched ...

Greening the Greyfields : New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of Low-Density Cities

This book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges ...

Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning

Traditionally, the DDSS conferences aim to be a platform for both starting and experienced researchers who focus on the development ...

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