Landscape architecture and design

This book is a unique guide to the disruptions, innovations, and opportunities that technology provides the insurance sector and acts as an academic/industry-specific guide for creating operational effectiveness, managing risk, improving financials, and retaining customers.

The bestselling guide to hobby robotics-fully updated for the latest technologies!

This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature.

This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature.

An advanced undergraduate/graduate text, emphasizing computation and algorithms for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning in mobile robots.

An advanced undergraduate/graduate text, emphasizing computation and algorithms for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning in mobile robots.

How to reconstruct scenes from images using geometry and algebra, with applications to computer vision.

This book explores the cliché of ''the city of seven hills'' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

This book explores the cliché of ''the city of seven hills'' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

Takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question, to conducting an experiment and analysing the results.

Takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question, to conducting an experiment and analysing the results.

This book is an introduction to recent advances in neuromorphic robotics and its contribution to furthering our understanding of the brain.

This book is an introduction to recent advances in neuromorphic robotics and its contribution to furthering our understanding of the brain.

Multi-robot coordinated fencing, where a team of robots forms a protective formation around a target, has garnered significant attention and proven useful in practical applications such as area convoying.

This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms.

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse.

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life.

Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors.

Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors.

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes.

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes.

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces.

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles.

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles.

New Zealand's Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently.

New Zealand's Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently.

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance.

While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance.

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law.

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law.

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain.

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain.

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself.

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself.