Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures.
Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures.
Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.
This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.
Due to disruptions occurring within production processes as a result of different circumstances, it is necessary to provide a new and safe production system that can be resilient to cope with any crisis, such as a pandemic.
Due to disruptions occurring within production processes as a result of different circumstances, it is necessary to provide a new and safe production system that can be resilient to cope with any crisis, such as a pandemic.
This book considers David Hanson's robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots.
This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur-drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE).
This practical guide covers the best practices for planning, organizing, and financing BIDs; the services they provide; and how they are operated and managed.
Como integrante de una Misión Cooperación del Gobierno francés, Jacques Aprile-Gniset (París, 1933-Cali, 2014) arribó a Colombia en 1966 para apoyar la formación de los campos del urbanismo y la planeación en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, y la elaboración de planes para las ciudades que estaban en plena ebullición.
Whether you are a developer, planner, or property owner, if concerns about traffic impacts of proposed development are a challenge, this book offers solutions.
One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was known to many as 'The Omnipotent Magician' who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature.
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.
"e;This powerful book of cultural criticism"e; by the renowned art historian "e;shines a harsh light on"e; a historic city's destruction in the name of profit (The Washington Post).
Whether you are a developer, planner, or property owner, if concerns about traffic impacts of proposed development are a challenge, this book offers solutions.
This book, aimed at Engineers, Architects, Building Technicians, and Students, offers a crucial insight into bioclimatic building construction in Tropical Africa.
Richly illustrated with color photographs, site plans, and diagrams, this book explains how to design and develop pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.
Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.
Vitoria: una ciudad de caminantes proporciona una respuesta a cómo el crecimiento de la urbe vasca se ha ejecutado, sin alterar su valor ecológico, dentro del escenario natural que tenía hace 200 años.
El libro analiza críticamente el modo de habitar occidental que supone al ser humano como especie superior, con derechos de posesión, control y explotación del mundo natural.
Avoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they will attract.
