Architecture

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a 'world as design' over the natural world.

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human's benefit.

'Overall, this collection of case studies provides an outstanding starting point for understanding the ethics of chemistry.

This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

FLINS, an acronym introduced in 1994 and originally for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended into a well-established international research forum to advance the foundations and applications of computational intelligence for applied research in general and for complex engineering and decision support systems.

The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct experiments, interact and collaborate.

Following the lifework (1960s to 2010) of visionary Singaporean architect William S.

This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization.

THIS BOOK is the fully revised and updated second edition of 'Consciousness and Robot Sentience'.

This volume aims to provide a reference to the development of robotic intelligence, built upon Semantic Computing, in terms of 'action' to realize the 'context' and 'intention' formulated by Semantics Computing during the 'thinking' or reasoning process.

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 discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

This publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management.

This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront.

This book elaborates on the six pillars of a healthy and standardized real-estate brokerage industry: the generation, distribution and matching of information; the transaction system; circulation finance; mobile Internet; the supervision system; and professional brokers.

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Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city.

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto''s Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions.

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This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety.

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM_2016, 21st International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development.

This book presents interviews with 20 successful Malaysian housing developers, to provide real-world insights and practical know-how for future developers.

This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that actualize the post-disaster recovery goals of the country's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 has resulted in the inadequate housing and relocation of Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines.

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.

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice.

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 discusses in detail the impact of the Internet on the real-estate brokerage industry.

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global - the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture.

This book examines the Facilities Management (FM) of hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are among the most complex, costly and challenging kind of buildings to manage.

These conference proceedings offer an outstanding resource for academics and professionals, sharing essential findings on the latest developments in real estate and construction management.

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India.

This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures.

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.

Edición a cargo de Guillermo Takano.

Este libro reflexiona sobre las multiples relaciones entre el arte y la arquitectura, como objeto de estudio.

El Programa de Arquitectura de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia, mediante una catedra rodante en septiembre del 2005, programo el I Seminario de Guadua, Bahareque y Sismoresistencia.

"Es como un abanico que se abre desde el impulso narrativo y muestra en sus repliegues parques, caminos, calles emblemáticas y viajes que conectan desde La Plata (con sus vecinos Necochea y Juárez en Argentina) hasta Bogotá, Cartagena y Barranquilla y todas entre sí.

Este libro es una compilacion de entrevistas y reflexiones de los arquitectos e ingenieros que se presentaron en la Semana de la Tecnologia 2018, evento en el que participaron diferentes actores de la industria de la construccion cuyas practicas se han caracterizado por la innovacion.

En este libro conjugan miradas criticas y reflexivas acerca de diversos tipos de movilidad ciudadana.