Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization.
This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.
A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.
Precision agriculture is a next-generation farming management concept that optimizes resource use, productivity, quality, profitability, and sustainability by observing and responding to crop variability.
This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.
Lo fundamental de la idea de la adaptabilidad y flexibilidad arquitectónica a partir de estructuras móviles o adaptables, estriba en la hipótesis de que el arquitecto es incapaz de determinar definitivamente el uso y el carácter de las edificaciones, y que corresponde al usuario de dichas construcciones decidir y rediseñar el uso y la forma que quiera asignarles.
Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.
This book includes the results from the 5th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR), held in National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, on December 07-09, 2023, which brought together visionaries, researchers, and industry leaders at the forefront of technological innovation.
Ce livre revient sur les mutations exceptionnelles affrontees par la ville de Saint-Etienne depuis cinquante ans, les principales decisions politiques locales et nationales qui l'ont transformee, les defis qu'elle devra encore relever.
Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.
This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.
Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.
Smart manufacturing environments are revolutionizing the industrial sector by integrating advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics, to achieve higher levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety.
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants.
Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.
A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate changeClimate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability.
This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.
Este libro responde a la necesidad de entender el crecimiento vertical de la ciudad a partir del surgimiento de torres y rascacielos, cuya altura determina exigencias economicas, tecnologicas y funcionales, con grandes efectos tanto en la armadura general, en la que sobresalen grandes brotes de densificacion constructiva, como en la pregnancia y significacion social de este gigantismo en el paisaje.
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots.
Embark on a Journey to the Intersection of Art and TechnologyAttention: Are you fascinated by the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence and how it can revolutionize the world of art?