Electronic Books

Total Books: 21 - 40 /96
Earthquake Early Warning System

The book provides information on the major EEW systems in operation and on the state of the art of the different blocks forming ...

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Ecologies Design : Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly, Mark Southcombe

Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both ...

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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets

As one examines worldwide economic growth over the past decade, it is clear that the U.S. economy has surpassed most of the ...

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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts

This book focuses on the linkage between human and environmental security and takes both a conceptual and a pragmatic approach ...

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Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta : An ecological story on evolving human–environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving ...

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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 ...

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Essentials of Urban Design / Mark Sheppard

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

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Foresight and Design : Composing Future Places / Mark C. Childs

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve ...

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Forest Policies and Social Change in England

The book stresses how values and perceptions shape policies, and conversely how policies can modify perceptions, and also ...

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Framing in Sustainability Science Theoretical and Practical Approaches

This book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Handbook of Urban Health

As more people worldwide live in cities, increasingly we need to understand how cities and city living affect population ...

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Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. ...

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Innovation Capacity and the City

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

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Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization

Drawing upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations ...

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Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It ...

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Landscape Architecture as Storytelling : Learning Design Through Analogy / Bob Scarfo

Introduces a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their ...

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Landscape Performance Modeling Using Rhino and Grasshopper / Phillip Zawarus

A guidebook for landscape architects to learn the fundamental practices and use of the computational software Rhino 3D and ...

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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 ...

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