Landscape architecture and design

This book gathers together innovative research and practical findings relating to urban mobility transformation.

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

In focus of this volume are five emerging megacities and mega-urban regions across the globe.

Finland is the undisputed pioneer in architectural education.

Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of "e;land measurement"e; primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years.

The era of analog drawing is coming to an end.

Inklusion in Architektur und Städtebau bedeutet mehr, als Gebäude und öffentlichen Raum mit technischen Bauteilen auszustaffieren.

Desde una perspectiva compleja, este documento piensa primero en la comunidad actual del lugar (la cuenca media del río Pasaje o Juramento, ubicada en el sureste de la provincia de Salta), indagando en su propia historia, con el objetivo de valorar su patrimonio arqueológico, clara evidencia de que el territorio fue y es propicio para el desarrollo de la vida.

This six volume collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

People have always been interested in the cities in which they live.

In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young researchers have also contributed substantially to the German research programme on sustainable development of future megacities.

In an urbanizing world, the city is considered the ultimate model and the measure of all things.

Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant considerations that have run parallel with Vassilis Sgoutas' own steps in architecture.

Nature is not simply "e;green"e; or the "e;opposite of culture.

Landscape architecture's fundamental task is to uncover and develop the specificity of a site.

How can an abstract term like "e;Topology"e; become pertinent and effective to landscape thinking today?

Based on the example of the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg, this book presents a strategic approach to the energy conversion of a district, which aims to be almost exclusively supplied by renewable and locally generated energy by 2050.

While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development.

Landscript 5 examines Material Culture in landscape architecture theory and design.

How can an abstract term like “Topology” become pertinent and effective to landscape thinking today?

The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions.

The significance of bottom-up approaches initiated by civil society as well as the importance of the local level as the level for implementation is often overlooked when dealing with megacity developments.

Dieses Buch stellt am Beispiel des Hamburger Stadtteils Wilhelmsburg einen strategischen Ansatz zum energetischen Quartiersumbau mit dem Ziel einer fast hundertprozentigen Versorgung durch erneuerbare und lokal erzeugte Energie bis zum Jahr 2050 vor.

Seit mehr als 40 Jahren befasst sich der Architekt und Stadtplaner Jan Gehl damit, Plätze, Straßen, ja ganze Stadtviertel zum Wohle der Bewohner neu oder umzugestalten.

In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure.

Urban planning is not just about the shaping of floor spaces or building complexes.

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces.

EUROPAN is the world's largest architecture and urban planning competition for young architects and urban planners.

Von der Gartenstadt bis zum Mythos Megacity: MULTIPLE CITY reflektiert aktuelle urbane Entwicklungen im Spiegel zentraler Stadtkonzepte der letzten 100 Jahre und untersucht, wie sich multiple Erscheinungsformen, parallele Strategien und gegenläufige Entwicklungen ins Gesicht der Stadt eingeschrieben haben.

Ein Architekt als Immobilienmakler?

The classical representative-democratic system that guarantees everyone the opportunity to participate has been coming under pressure.

In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes.

Global climate change calls for rapid and decisive measures, particularly from the world's metropolises-the future of our climate will be decided in cities!

In our society there is an increasing demand for participation in shaping our built environment.

Los Angeles ist die falsche Stadt.

This book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration.

Segunda edición, bilingüe (español – inglés) y con dibujos del autor, de esta esmerada obra fruto de una sostenida inquietud de Roque Manuel Gómez por el análisis y estudio de los Valles Calchaquíes y su arquitectura, dada su especial particularidad y su extraordinaria riqueza patrimonial.

La dimensión privada y la dimensión social de la habitación son los dos extremos del espacio en que este libro se desarrolla.

"Ciudades legibles: una mirada desde el diseño de información y su contribución para hacer mejores lugares es una obra en la que no solo se presentan los resultados de tres pasantías de investigación, sino también la descripción y recopilación de experiencias de ciudades legibles en todo el mundo a la luz de autores clave que han sentado las bases para estos ejercicios de diseño de la información a nivel urbano basados en el usuario.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of smart ports and remote technologies in the maritime industry.

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.

This language course book provides the tools to communicate effectively throughout the development of construction projects.

This book investigates the concept of human landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last 50 years.

This book investigates the concept of human landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last 50 years.

Urban planning practice will undergo significant changes in the upcoming decades, due to major changes and challenges the world has to deal with, such as loss of biodiversity loss, climate change impacts, agricultural transformation, water management issues and health.

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This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).