Electronic Books

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A City in Blue and Green

Highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...

Designing sustainable cities / Rob Roggema

Emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism ...

Fundamental Trends in City Development

This book inquires into how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions ...

Geographies of Schooling

This book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions ...

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 ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

Human-Nature Interactions : Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes / Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl

Highlights how humans value nature, the opportunities and challenges in changing socio-ecological systems Provides insights ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

This book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The ...

Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas

This book also includes several case studies concerning landscape analysis and evaluation using spatial analysis and landscape ...

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games Planning Legacies

This book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los ...

Neighbourhoods in Transition : Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas

This book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, ...

Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception

This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds ...

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

This book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. ...

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 Ecology

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

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 ...

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. ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

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