Landscape architecture and design

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaughs Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997.

A presentation of key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study In a world of more than seven billion people—who mostly reside in cities and towns—the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science.

Residents and visitors in todays Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered.

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In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "e;completion"e; of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China.

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity.

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present.

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume.

From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space.

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design.

Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city.

This book attempts a comprehensive overview of the architecture of the kibbutz: its essence, its history, its constant change, and its physical planning and architectural expression and management, and relates to this unique spatial alternative from a holistic viewpoint: the kibbutz in all stages of its development, from the kvutza as a micro-utopian commune to its physical configuration as an autonomous-autarkic complex arising out of its basic social, economic and educational structure, and its later stages as a potential macro-utopian regional entity, envisioning a real alternative lifestyle to the capitalist metropolis.

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity.

Why and how was the term 'built environment' first introduced?

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment?

The book addresses the interdisciplinary and multiscale theme of the design of sustainable, inclusive and creative urban green spaces in relation to the socio-ecological transition and in line with the systemic vision promoted by the 2030 Agenda, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the principles outlined by the New European Bauhaus (European Commission, 2021).

Artificial intelligence is spreading all over the world.

A child would enjoy an On the Construction Site Picture Book because many children find construction machinery interesting.

This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects.

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities.

This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twentyfirst century.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at ROBOT 2019 - the Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Porto, Portugal, on November 20th-22nd, 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2019, held in Kunming, China, in October 2019.

This book focuses on enabling mobile robots to recognize scenes in indoor environments, in order to allow them to determine which actions are appropriate at which points in time.

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA in July, 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2019, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2019.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at ROBOT 2019 - the Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Porto, Portugal, on November 20th-22nd, 2019.

This book is of interest to researchers wanting to know more about the latest topics and methods in the fields of the kinematics, control and design of robotic systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA in July, 2019.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, on October 30th-November 1st, 2019.

This book discusses methods and algorithms for the near-optimal adaptive control of nonlinear systems, including the corresponding theoretical analysis and simulative examples, and presents two innovative methods for the redundancy resolution of redundant manipulators with consideration of parameter uncertainty and periodic disturbances.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2019, which took place in Xi'an, China, in October 2019.

Urban Regeneration - A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2019, held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2019.

This book presents the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2019, held at the Fraunhofer Zentrum and the Technische Universitat in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on 19-21 June 2019.

 This book includes recent research on climbing and walking robots.

This book reports on the latest scientific achievements on robot kinematics provided by the prominent researchers participating in the 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics ARK2022, organized in the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.

This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.

This book contains high-quality and original research on computational intelligence for green smart cities research.