City and town planning: architectural aspects

El libro que se presenta al lector, no pretende contemplar la historia de Bogotá en su totalidad, simplemente se contenta con presentar algunas pinceladas sobre el largo recorrido de la ciudad a través de 450 años, deteniéndose en algunos pocos edificios, ciertas manzanas y unas pocas instituciones, sin pretender haber agotado el tema en ninguno de los apuntes que conforman esta recapitulación, conformada por diversos trabajos realizados por el autor en el doble ejercicio de su actividad profesional del Arquitecto Restaurador y de su indeclinable interés por la historia de la Arquitectura.

Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities.

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

This book is concerned with the extent to which childhood stress and trauma lead in relative maturity to major depression (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems?

The Handbook of Urban Morphology Karl Kropf Urban morphology is a core discipline for both academic research and professional practice in a range of fields including urban design, architecture, planning, geography, archaeology and anthropology.

Streets Reconsidered is a fundamental rethinking of America's streets.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern.

Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing, by examining the concept from economic, human development, architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of view.

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past.

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.

Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability.

This book develops and details a rigorous, canonical modeling approach for analyzing spatio-temporal brain wave dynamics.

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship.

Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie's influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years.

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development.

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel.

Pairing archive and contemporary photographs of the same location side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now(R) provides a visual chronicle of the borough's past, full of rich history and culture.

Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration.

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded.

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.

Der dänische Architekt Jan Gehl, einer der weltweit wohl bekanntesten Stadtplaner, erläutert in seinem Buch Leben zwischen Häusern die fundamentale Bedeutung sensibler Raumplanung für ein gutes Zusammenleben in unseren Städten.

Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres.

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization.

Summarizes the latest neuroscience of sleep and dreams, as well as the evolutionary background to their potential functions.

What is "e;urban"e;?

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries.

Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design.

Real estate development shapes the way people live and work, playing a crucial role in determining our built environment.

Psychologie als Gesellschaftspolitik: Wir müssen unser Denken und unsere Denkmuster ändern, um die Krisen unserer Zeit zu meistern, fordert Maren Urner, Professorin für Medien-Psychologie an der Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft (HMKW) in Köln.

This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions.