Landscape architecture and design

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940.

Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT).

Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT).

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

In spite of society's wish to protect and insulate children from death, the experience of loss is unavoidable and there is surprisingly little guidance on how to help children cope with grief and bereavement.

Written in a clear, accessible style, this book covers the fundamental aspects of soil science with an emphasis on topics useful to landscape architects and professionals in related fields.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading.

In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble.

During the past decade, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains.

As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design.

After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

This volume considers "e;lived space"e; as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Bridges touch all our lives - every day we are likely to cross a bridge, or go under one.

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens.

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens.

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets.

Bridges touch all our lives - every day we are likely to cross a bridge, or go under one.

A volume on the history of the English urban environment that will appeal to both general readers and academic specialists.

A structure is an assembly that serves an engineering function.

Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities is concerned with the study of the computational and complexity issues arising in systems of decentralized computational entities operating in a spatial universe Encompassing and modeling a large variety of application environments and systems, from robotic swarms to networks of mobile sensors, from software mobile agents in communication networks to crawlers and viruses on the web, the theoretical research in this area intersects distributed computing with the fields of computational geometry (especially for continuous spaces), control theory, graph theory and combinatorics (especially for discrete spaces).

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day.

This book highlights the transformative impact of these technologies in shaping the future of automation and intelligent systems.

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

Studies on integer optimization in emergency management have attracted engineers and scientists from various disciplines such as management, mathematics, computer science, and other fields.

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology provides a means of communication that allows individuals with severely impaired movement to communicate with assistive devices using the electroencephalogram (EEG) or other brain signals.

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets.

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets.

Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L.

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.