Landscape architecture and design

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas.

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology.

The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements.

This book-Mind, Body, and Digital Brains-focuses on both theoretical and empirical issues and joins contributions from different disciplines, concepts, and sensibilities, bringing together scholars from fields that at first glance may appear different-Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience; Robotics, Computer Science, Deep Learning, and Information Processing Systems; Education, Philosophy, Law, and Psychology.

Making sense of new cultural economies, it is argued, needs consistent attention to the resonances of individual lives.

Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually.

Despite the critical importance of the cerebellum in brain function, the scientific community still lacks effective treatments for most cerebellar ataxias.

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

In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly.

Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning.

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

Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world's finite resources.

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andre Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions?

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.

Most of us have heard of green belts - but how much do we really know about them?

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition?

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not.

Interior Design on Edge explores ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory.

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

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

Bringing together case studies from several European countries, this book provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of European spatial policy.

The Definitive Guide to Land Development-Every Detail, Every Issue, Every SettingLand Development Handbook provides a step-by-step approach to any type of project, from rural greenfield development to suburban infill to urban redevelopment.

This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe.

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin American perspective.

This book explores the need for innovative approaches to administrative digitization, leveraging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and smart processes to meet citizens' expectations, with a particular focus on the role of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) in driving successful digital transformations within public institutions.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics.

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed?

"e;An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender.

The modern city is not only pavement and concrete.

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

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Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "e;follies,"e; from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization.

A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green RoofsWritten by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green roofs.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain?

This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.