Architecture

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

Physicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care.

Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders: How to Develop Yourself and Implement Process Improvements aims to solve the issues in modern day healthcare by handing over the reins of the improvement process to healthcare professionals.

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim's theory of media.

This book presents the outcomes of recent endeavors that are expected to foster significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design, and product design, as well as overlapping areas.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

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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 unique text/reference presents a unified approach to the formulation of Gestalt laws for perceptual grouping, and the construction of nested hierarchies by aggregation utilizing these laws.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

This book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.

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

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

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This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination.

Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

Gran parte de la población colombiana vive actualmente en ciudades.

This book reflects the current state of knowledge on sustainability in a wide range of fields, from engineering to agriculture, to education.

This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

These proceedings present fourteen peer-reviewed papers from the 10th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities, which was held March 21-22, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

This book explores various digital representation strategies that could change the future of wooden architectures by blending tradition and innovation.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology.

This book gathers the proceedings of the Energy and Sustainability 2018 Symposium (EAS 2018) held in Windsor, Canada in June 2018.

The book connects the ICT and the architectural worlds, analyzing modeling, materialization and data-driven visions for design issues at different scales.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

This edited volume on challenges in structural and bridge engineering brings together contributions to this important area of engineering research.

We all need creative ideas for solving challenging problems, innovating, and reconciling dilemmas.

This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Network's 28thanniversary congress at the University of Kingston in London.

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 offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in building industry.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

The book covers practical applications and experimental results of integrating renewable energy technologies, energy storage facilities, and intelligent control and operation techniques into building energy systems.

This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization it has been undergoing during the last two decades.

This book emphasizes the important message that architects and structural engineers must strive to ensure that the buildings they design and construct should not be major contributors to climate change.

The book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method "e;beyond"e; the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications.

After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.

This book provides a collection of recent research works, related to structural stability and durability, service life, reinforced concrete structures, recycled materials, and sustainability with endogenic materials.

This new edition presents a fully-updated and expanded look at current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) for cell therapy products.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research, innovations, and practical applications in the field of sustainability, with a focus on construction materials and their use in building and civil engineering structures.

This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020.