Architecture

This book highlights current research and development in the area of sustainable built environments, currently one of the most important disciplines in civil engineering.

Modernists believed that "e;form follows function.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

This book advances research on mobile robot localization in unknown environments by focusing on machine-learning-based natural scene recognition.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Rehabilitation and Maintenance in Civil Engineering (ICRMCE 2021), held in Surakarta, Indonesia.

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time?

This book is structured in four parts: First, it analyzes the sustainability objectives established for the building stock and the importance of thermal comfort in this aspect.

This book provides a comprehensive review of industry 4.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

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).

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as 'bringing home' to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation's greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia.

This book collects the scientific proceedings presented during the "e;2022 The 2nd International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference"e; held in Singapore in March 2022 with the aim of showing the latest advancements in theoretical and applied research in the architecture, engineering, and construction sector (AEC).

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics.

This proceedings book focuses on innovation, cooperation, and sustainable development in the fields of construction management and real estate.

This book presents the select proceedings of the international conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering 2021 (SPICE 2021).

This book provides an in-depth analysis of China's housing system and real-estate industry .

The 3rd Annual International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016) was successfully held in Wuhan, China in 2016.

This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Data Science Applications, organized by the School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, on September 4 and 5, 2020.

This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design.

This book provides an overview of how efficient building energy management can be done, considering the increasing importance of renewable energy integration.

This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering (GBSE 2018), which focused on the theme "e;Transforming our Built Environment through Innovation and Integration towards a Smart and Sustainable Future"e;.

Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values.

This book offers an archaeological study on China's ancient capitals.

Double carbon targets have been one of the most motivations and targets for China's social and economic development.

This book presents a landscape pattern language framework for describing landscape spaces and offers a new approach to landscape expression and spatial reasoning.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of assistive robotics.

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials.

This book presents a very useful and valuable collection of chapters associated with recent developments in energy, environment, and nanotechnology including nanofluids dynamics.

This journal-like book series includes edited volumes to rapidly report and spread the latest technological results, new scientific discovery and valuable applied researches in the fields concerning offshore robotics as well as promote international academic exchange.

This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable energy.

This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia.

It is estimated that windows in office buildings are responsible for one third of energy used for their heating and cooling.

This book presents a study into the art of Jiangnan classical garden.

This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 2021 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2021), which was taken place in Seoul, South Korea, during July 10-12, 2021.

In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf.

This book comprises select and peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Construction Materials and Structures (ICON 2019).

This book addresses the effects of the environment on Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.

Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.

El libro que se presenta al lector, no pretende contemplar la historia de Bogotá en su totalidad, simplemente se contenta con presentar algunas pinceladas sobre el largo recorrido de la ciudad a través de 450 años, deteniéndose en algunos pocos edificios, ciertas manzanas y unas pocas instituciones, sin pretender haber agotado el tema en ninguno de los apuntes que conforman esta recapitulación, conformada por diversos trabajos realizados por el autor en el doble ejercicio de su actividad profesional del Arquitecto Restaurador y de su indeclinable interés por la historia de la Arquitectura.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

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.

A tribute to Ireland's beautiful capital from its own artists.

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail.

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

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

Robotics for Cell Manipulation and Characterization provides fundamental principles underpinning robotic cell manipulation and characterization, state-of-the-art technical advances in micro/nano robotics, new discoveries of cell biology enabled by robotic systems, and their applications in clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Essential reading for researchers, practitioners, and engineers, this book covers not only all the important aspects in the field of corrosion of steel reinforced concrete but also discusses new topics and future trends.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.