This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia.
This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial).
This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods.
This book features selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications, held at SVKM's Dwarkadas J.
This book explores the core value of Gulangyu's historical environment, using outstanding universal value and Sino-foreign cultural exchange as the framing aspects, based on the requirements for Gulangyu being recognized as a World Heritage Site.
Smart Cities: Big Data Prediction Methods and Applications is the first reference to provide a comprehensive overview of smart cities with the latest big data predicting techniques.
This book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China's urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology.
This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.
The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.
The "e;2019 DigitalFUTURES - The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)"e; provides an international platform for advanced scientific research papers on the digital technology of architectural design and construction.
This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable.
This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.
This book contributes to current debates regarding purposive transitions to sustainable cities, providing an accessible but critical exploration of sustainability transitions in urban settings.
This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology.
GNSS can detect the seismic atmospheric-ionospheric variations, which can be used to investigate the seismo-atmospheric disturbance characteristics and provide insights on the earthquake.
The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life.
This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty.
This book explores the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the ways architectures are related to the local geography, including mingling or contrasting with surrounding landscape, adapting to mountainous or aquatic terrain, and selection of construction materials.
This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture from the perspective of functions of architectures by analyzing the cases of traditional Chinese houses and tombs as well as palaces and places of worship.
This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment.
Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia.
El texto tiene dos finalidades, contribuir en el proceso de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de una manera didáctica y sencilla, con conceptos básicos de las estructuras en concreto reforzado, exponiendo un camino a seguir indicado en el Reglamento Colombiano de Construcción Sismo Resistente NSR-10 y enseñar sobre las diferentes formas de diseñar y revisar una viga, utilizando las tablas entregadas en los anexos, para que se profundice de manera gradual en cada uno de los temas, buscando que el elemento resultante sea satisfactorio analítica y numéricamente.
Sendas de la modernidad ha sido concebida como una serie abierta de publicaciones que ofrece una mirada comprensiva a los procesos de diversificación de las tradiciones modernas en arquitectura y ciudad.
Este libro recoge una traducción de los informes y bitácora de viaje que el ingeniero estadounidense Ray Floyd Weirick redactó a principios del siglo XX y que sirvieron de inspiración y referentes para que la Compañía Urbanizadora Parrish empezara las obras de construcción del barrio El Prado en la ciudad de Barranquilla.
Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo emprendido por la joven Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Santo Tomás, Sede Villavicencio, con el fin de ofrecer lecturas humanistas sobre esta ciudad.
En este libro se trata el papel que tuvo el municipio capitalino en la conformación del Estado nacional, en el periodo dominado por la Regeneración de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX.
Territorio, planeación y políticas públicas: variaciones sobre un trinomio imperfecto trata sobre el tema de las intrincadas relaciones de este trinomio imperfecto, para responder a la pregunta del profesor Jérôme Monnet, geógrafo y urbanista inspirador del libro, de en qué medida el territorio es un medio o un producto de la acción pública.
La territorialidad latinoamericana reciente, fundamentada por la demanda de nuevas lógicas de recomposición de los territorios rurales y urbanos, y dependiente de alteraciones y cambios concretos, ha determinado la generación de nuevas perspectivas y maneras de analizar y proyectar el territorio contemporáneo.
La insurgencia, según David Harvey, invita al arquitecto a reconocer otros teatros diferentes a los propios y, por consiguiente, a descubrir el rico y diverso panorama de la ciudad informal, cuya autoformación representa un amplio espectro de prácticas y maneras de entender y de atenderla, muy oportunas para la innovación teórica.
Esta publicación es producto de la investigación realizada dentro del grupo de investigación en Morfología Estructural y busca proporcionar bases conceptuales para el planteamiento de nuevas estructuras arquitectónicas.
