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The Dusk of Design

Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches and Evolutionary Biology in Architecture

Edited by Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Paola Boarin, Priscila Besen ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation in biology, the book argues that natural selection, as the most successful designer on our planet, thrives on the diversity, variability, and redundancy of creative structures. By transferring these mechanisms to architectural design, the book contends ... Read more

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The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation in biology, the book argues that natural selection, as the most successful designer on our planet, thrives on the diversity, variability, and redundancy of creative structures. By transferring these mechanisms to architectural design, the book contends
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Mathematical Methods for Physics

Problems and Solutions

by Farkhad G. Aliev, Antonio Lara ...

This book presents mathematical tools to solve partial differential equations, typical of physical problems. It explains in a detailed manner the process of solving the problems that typically arise in the context of physics. Although there are a large number of textbooks on this topic, few go so deep into the topic. One of the original and unique features of this book is emphasis on the ... Read more

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This book presents mathematical tools to solve partial differential equations, typical of physical problems. It explains in a detailed manner the process of solving the problems that typically arise in the context of physics. Although there are a large number of textbooks on this topic, few go so deep into the topic. One of the original and unique features of this book is emphasis on the
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Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter

Towards the Possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities

Edited by Maurizio Carta, Maria R. Perbellini, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban ... Read more

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This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban
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Health, Diversity, and Temporary Appropriation in Public Space

by Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Barbora Melis ...

Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation—the spontaneous and informal use of public space—reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity, ... Read more

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Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation—the spontaneous and informal use of public space—reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity,
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Temporary Appropriation in Cities

Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience

Edited by Alessandro Melis, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, James Thompson ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, ... Read more

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This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation,
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Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data

A Guide for the Social Sciences

by Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger, Rosario Rizzo Lara ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book advances the emerging work on using semi-structured interview data to analyze motives by providing the first book-length treatment of this underdeveloped methodological area in sociology and social science more broadly. Exploring key methodological and theoretical debates on this topic in-depth, the authors apply a dual-process model approach to demonstrate how we can analyze motives ... Read more

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This book advances the emerging work on using semi-structured interview data to analyze motives by providing the first book-length treatment of this underdeveloped methodological area in sociology and social science more broadly. Exploring key methodological and theoretical debates on this topic in-depth, the authors apply a dual-process model approach to demonstrate how we can analyze motives
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Architectural Exaptation

When Function Follows Form

by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...

Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

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Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and
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Developing Linear Algebra Codes on Modern Processors: Emerging Research and Opportunities

by Sandra Catalán Pallarés, Pedro Valero-Lara, Leonel Antonio Toledo Díaz, Rocío Carratalá Sáez ...

Optimized linear algebra (LA) libraries that are able to exploit the underlying hardware are always of interest in the high-performance computing community. The implementation of LA software has evolved along with computer architecture, while the specification remains unaltered almost from the beginning. It is important to differentiate between the specification of LA libraries and their ... Read more

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Optimized linear algebra (LA) libraries that are able to exploit the underlying hardware are always of interest in the high-performance computing community. The implementation of LA software has evolved along with computer architecture, while the specification remains unaltered almost from the beginning. It is important to differentiate between the specification of LA libraries and their
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Science, Society and Sustainability

Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World

Edited by Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required in order to address problems facing the global community, particularly in relation to issues of risk ... Read more

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Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required in order to address problems facing the global community, particularly in relation to issues of risk
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Cities Alive

by Michael Mehaffy ...

Cities are experiencing a renaissance today, because we'e begun to understand how they really work -- and we've begun to make them work better for people.This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander. Their key insights have shaped several generations of scholars, ... Read more

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Cities are experiencing a renaissance today, because we'e begun to understand how they really work -- and we've begun to make them work better for people.This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander. Their key insights have shaped several generations of scholars,
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Two Spheres

Physical and Strategic Design in Architecture

by Leonard Bachman ...

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar text, a guide to contemporary design issues, or as a theoretical work.Beginning with a historical ... Read more

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Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar text, a guide to contemporary design issues, or as a theoretical work.Beginning with a historical
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Design and Anthropology

Edited by Wendy Gunn, Jared Donovan ...

Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the re-conceptualisation of the relation between design and use from both ... Read more

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Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the re-conceptualisation of the relation between design and use from both
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